Chapter 502 Promoted to Five-Star General

After a long silence, Yoshimoto Sadachi finally broke the silence and asked Okamura Ninji: "Your Excellency, the First Front Army, which has entered Shanhaiguan, do you want to withdraw to the Liaoxi Corridor?" ”

"Nope." Okamura Ninji shook his head and said, "The First Front Army can't retreat. ”

After saying this, Okamura Ninji said to Umezu Mijiro again: "Umezu-kun, not only can the First Front Army not be able to retreat, but we should also transfer the First Front Army from the rest of the various armies, just wait for the cold current in Siberia to move south, the meteorological conditions will deteriorate, and the First Front Army will enter the Eastern Hebei Plain in a big way!" ”

"What?" Tamura Yoshitomi and Yoshimoto Zhen looked at each other and said, "Your Excellency, didn't you just say that the Kwantung Army should not take the initiative to attack, but should go all out to manage the South Manchurian defense line, and now why do you say that you are going to enter the Jidong Plain in a big way?" Your Excellency, General, we are all confused, is the Kwantung Army going to defend or attack? ”

Okamura Ninji waved his hand and patiently explained: "What I said about the Kwantung Army's inability to take the initiative to attack means that the main force of the Kwantung Army cannot enter the North China Plain in a big way and seek a strategic decisive battle with the main force of the China Army. ”

After saying this, Okamura Ninji said again: "Offense is the best defense, isn't it?" ”

Umezu Mijiro understood, and immediately stroked his palms and laughed: "Okay, a good offense is the best defense!" ”

At this moment, proud people such as Umezu Mijiro must also admit that Okamura Ninji's strategic vision and tactical command ability are indeed higher than him, and it is no wonder that Yoshimoto Sadachi and Tamura Yoshitomi, two idiots, will be confused by his extremely rich and jumpy tactical thinking, and even the most basic judgment will be lost.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Okamura Ningji's tactical guiding ideology is one: offense, that is, defense!

The cold snap in Siberia will not last for more than four weeks at most, but if you want to build a group of fortresses that stretch for thousands of miles in the southeast branch of Yanshan, the corridor of western Liaoning, and the deep mountains and old forests of Changbai Mountain, it is absolutely impossible to build a group of fortresses and fortifications that stretch for thousands of miles without three to six months, and even it will take at least a month to build radar base stations in eastern and western Liaoning.

Under such circumstances, the "large-scale offensive" of the Kwantung Army became very necessary.

Not to mention anything else, at least the squadron must be beaten so that the squadron will completely lose the confidence and courage to take the initiative to attack before it receives fire support from the Air Force, and only in this way will the Kwantung Army be strategically active for a long time to come, while the squadron will be in a disadvantageous position of passive defense.

As for whether he can "beat" the squadron, Okamura Ninji is not worried at all.

Even after going to Europe, Okamura Ninji never relaxed his attention to the squadron for a moment.

According to the data obtained by Okamura Ninji, Yue Weihan's Fourth Field Army is currently composed of a total of 7 group armies plus a naval corps, with 56 infantry divisions, 7 armored divisions, 7 heavy artillery divisions, and 9 aviation divisions, and in terms of heavy equipment, it has about 2,000 medium tanks, 1,000 mén heavy artillery, and more than 2,000 fighters of various types.

However, at present, there are only 2 group armies that have rushed to North China, less than half!

The Kwantung Army has more than 3,000 medium tanks, 2,500 mén heavy artillery and more than 2,000 fighters!

Of course, the Kwantung Army can only be put into the eastern Hebei operation, and there is only one reinforced front army, and the advantage will not be too obvious.

However, Okamura Ninji still has a trump card in his hand, and at the critical moment, this trump card will play a decisive role!

As long as the cold snap in Siberia goes south as scheduled, as long as the squadron dares to put on a posture and fight a decisive battle with the Kwantung Army, the Kwantung Army will have no reason not to win, the confrontation between mechanized heavy army groups, the infantry combat power is already insignificant, and the contest of heavy equipment and logistics support system is the king, with this trump card, it is difficult for the Kwantung Army to lose!

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Southwest of Tianjin, Xiǎo Station.

Half a century ago, Yuan Shikai used to train the Beiyang New Army here, but now, it is the former finger of the four fields.

After inspecting the reconstruction and expansion project of Qingdao's Cangkou Airport, Yue Weihan directly boarded the battleship "Wenzheng," the flagship of the Navy Corps, and together with the 150,000 officers and men of the Fifth Group Army, bypassed the Jiaodong Peninsula and went straight to Bohai Bay.

It was Yue Weihan's decision to set up the headquarters of the field army on the front line.

Although Yue Weihan was already a five-star general commanding an army of millions, he had never had the habit of commanding from behind.

Yue Weihan's promotion order for the military rank was just issued by the chairman of the Military Commission two days ago, and Yue Weihan was also the last senior general to be promoted in this promotion.

Yue Weihan was promoted to a five-star general, which can be said to be expected.

What is more surprising is that the chairman of the Military Commission Máo did not confer the title on him.

Originally, it was widely speculated in the Western media that Chairman Máo would at least confer the title of five-star general on himself, like Chairman Chiang, who had sacrificed his life for the country, but in the end, Chairman Máo did not confer the title on himself, and Chairman Máo's consistent concept was that the party commanded the gun, and the party wanted to command the gun but could not be subordinate to the military system, so the chairman of the Military Commission could not confer the title.

Later, this became a ** tradition, and the top leaders of all generations concurrently served as the chairman of the Military Commission, but they all had no military rank.

In addition, General Zhu Lao, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, General Peng, commander-in-chief of the First Field, General Ye Tǐng, commander-in-chief of the Second Field, and General Xue Yue, commander-in-chief of the Third Field, were also awarded the rank of four-star general.

When Yue Weihan strode into the battle hall, the operational staff officers of the headquarters had already set up the offensive and defensive situation map of Tianjin City on the mō sand table, and judging from the offensive and defensive situation map, the periphery of Tianjin had been cleared, and the nine infantry divisions and two armored divisions of the 4th Group Army of the Fourth Field had already surrounded the entire Tianjin City.

Thousands of mén cannons have been aimed at the Japanese military facilities in Tianjin.

More than 1,000 fighters and bombers are already on standby at Qingdao and Shanghai airports.

As long as Yue Weihan gives an order, Tianjin will become the second big city to be wiped out by Siye after Beiping.

However, Yue Weihan did not give the order for a general attack for a long time, the reason is very simple, although there is no magnificent building like the Forbidden City in Tianjin, but more than 300,000 poor people live, since the Battle of Tianjin, the Japanese army in Tianjin has closed down the four mén and taken these more than 300,000 people as hostages.

This has indeed brought great pressure to the top officers and soldiers on the Tianjin front.

Although Beiping is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties and the magnificent Forbidden City, after all, it is only an ancient building that has long lost its practical value and only has symbolic significance, as for the residents in Beiping City, except for the Japanese, there are only a few upper-level "jīng Ying" of the pseudo-North China Autonomous Government, so it is smoothed out, and Yue Weihan did not even blink his brows.

But Tianjin is different, everyone who lives in Tianjin is a little bitter haha, and the number of people is extremely large!

Yue Weihan could not hesitate to order the razing of the Forbidden City and blow up the upper echelons of the puppet North China Autonomous Government, but he would never dare to order the death of more than 300,000 poor compatriots.

What is the most precious thing about a country and a nation? It's not cultural inheritance, it's not resources, it's people!

Since ancient times, the ancient civilizations bred by the earth are unknown, but up to now, most of the ancient civilizations have been annihilated in the long river of history, and only the Chinese civilization has continued to this day, why?

Not because of China's unique almost closed natural environment, nor because of the unique Han culture.

The main reason why Chinese civilization continues is that in any period in history, the Han people have maintained an absolute population advantage over the surrounding barbarian peoples, which is the biggest mystery of the Chinese civilization's eternal prosperity and repeated rise, so it is nothing to raze a few cities, and it is nothing to blow up the Forbidden City, but it is not okay to slaughter more than 300,000 compatriots!

Even Yue Weihan had to fight with the tiger to deliver food to the Japanese army to ensure the survival of 300,000 compatriots.

Just as Yue Weihan was looking at the mō sand table and falling into deep thought, a staff officer of a major general who was extremely rich in "expressing yù hope" suddenly came out of the crowd and suggested loudly to Yue Weihan: "General seat, the amount is not a gentleman, no poison is not a husband, give the order to bomb!" Beiping, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, was bombed, and you still care about a mere Tianjin city? What is the death of hundreds of thousands of people? China has people! ”

"Fart!" Yue Weihan was furious when he heard this, and slapped the major general's staff officer to the ground with a backhand.

Chi Chengfeng, who was standing beside Yue Weihan, kicked his feet fiercely in front of the major general's staff officer without hesitation, and in an instant, the face of the major general's staff officer was already blurred with blood, just lying on the ground wailing and wailing, but he didn't know how to anger the general seat, let alone how to touch Chi Chengfeng, the executioner?

The staff officer of this major general didn't know that his words touched the sore spot of Yue Weihan and Chi Chengfeng at the same time.

Why was Chi Chengfeng swept to the end? Why is it still just a major general's gang leader?

Isn't it because Chi Chengfeng slaughtered more than 2,000 unarmed compatriots on the Bund in Shanghai? What's even more infuriating is that Chi Chengfeng can't find a place to reason, because he knows that even if he doesn't give an order, Yue Weihan will definitely give the same order in the end.

Therefore, as soon as the major general's staff officer said that he had slaughtered his compatriots, he angered Yue and Chi at the same time.

Yue Weihan was still angry, and said to General Huang Jie, chief of the General Staff of Siye: "How can such a scumbag be recruited into the headquarters as a staff officer?" It's a shame! Immediately put him into the reserve and send him to the Hukang River Valley to open up the wasteland! Huang Jie hurriedly asked people to pick up the staff officer of the major general who was not like a chéng, and left without saying a word.

Li Yùlong, the commander of the 31st Division, hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded: "General seat, you can't be angry with such a person. ”

Yue Weihan nodded, and asked in a deep voice, "Is there any new move by the Kwantung Army in the direction of Shanhaiguan?" ”

"Nope." Li Yilong shook his head and said, "The Kwantung Army did not continue to advance south after occupying Shanhaiguan, and at present, more than 20 main divisions of the 10th Group Army of Yiye have built more than a dozen lines of defense between Luanxian and Beidaihe. ”

"Not necessarily." Yue Weihan shook his head and said, "According to the analysis of the Japanese army's telegrams deciphered by the Ministry of Intelligence, the Kwantung Army is likely to be waiting for the opportunity, but when the time is ripe, the Kwantung Army will definitely move south!" ”

Liu Yi said: "General seat, then the war in Tianjin cannot be delayed any longer, and it must be resolved as soon as possible." ”

"Tianjin's death situation is probably unsolvable." Yue Weihan shook his head, and suddenly said, "Fortunately, there are less than 30,000 Japanese troops in Tianjin, and they can't pose much threat to our army, so leave two divisions to besiege Tianjin for a long time, and the rest of the divisions will immediately advance in the direction of Shanhaiguan along the Pingha Railway and Zhifeng Highway!" ”

This is also one of the operational plans formulated by Siye, which is not only to block the Kwantung Army in the western Liaoning corridor, but also to strive to block the mechanized heavy army group of the Kwantung Army in the eastern Hebei Plain; from the current point of view, it is impossible to block the Kwantung Army in the western Liaoning corridor east of Shanhaiguan, but there is still a chance to block the Kwantung Army in the eastern Hebei Plain.

In the following days, Siye's military operation turned out to be an unusual victory.

On the afternoon of the third day, when Yue Weihan was inspecting the reconstruction and expansion project of Nanyuan Airport in Fengtai, the originally clear sky suddenly became cloudy, and then the wind was strong, and it was just afternoon, but it was as dark as the evening.

Seeing Yue Weihan's expression, Mr. Zuo asked with concern, "Boss, what's wrong?" ”

Yue Weihan Huo Ran raised his hand to stop Mr. Zuo from speaking, and then his eyebrows fell into contemplation, vaguely, he seemed to have caught something, but after thinking about it carefully, he didn't catch anything, not to mention how uncomfortable it felt, Mr. Zuo and the rest of his entourage all fell into silence, and no one dared to disturb Yue Weihan at this time.

When Yue Weihan was at a loss for the essentials, a reconnaissance plane that had urgently returned to the country landed on the runway.

Suddenly, Yue Weihan understood everything, the reason why the Kwantung Army did not go south immediately after occupying Shanhaiguan was just waiting for such an opportunity? As long as the cold snap moves south and the weather deteriorates, the Chinese Air Force will not be able to take to the air to bomb, and the armored cluster of the Kwantung Army will be able to move south with impunity!

"Old Left." Yue Weihan turned around and said to the left, "Call the 4th Army immediately and ask Dai Anlan to get ready, they are likely to have an encounter with the armored cluster of the Kwantung Army on the Jidong Plain!" Also, don't forget to remind them that not a single aircraft will provide them with air fire support during this encounter. ”

Mr. Zuo looked up at the sky where the wind was howling, and nodded solemnly.