"Yamashita-kun, how is your Fourth Division now?"

Hearing Umezu Mijiro's words, Yamashita was stunned. In the two days since he arrived in Xinjing, he has been following the commander's requirements to ponder how to reform the Fourth Division and how to exterminate these bandits in the Sanjiang area as soon as possible; a few months ago, the Fourth Division suffered heavy losses in order to cooperate with Major General Sasaki Ichi in encircling and suppressing the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and the strength of a brigade was ambushed by the Shina people, and now he is actively training the new recruits of the Fourth Division, and he entered Beijing this time to request the mobilization of a batch of equipment.

Yamashita did not know that just last night at the Tokyo base camp due to the loss of two wings of the Fourth Division and the loss of two military fortresses in a row, Umezu Mijiro's new request to increase the strength of at least two infantry divisions for the Kwantung Army, especially the transfer of all the output of the Shenyang Arsenal to the Kwantung Army in the last quarter of this year, sent a stern reprimand telegram to Umezu Mijiro. The unusually stern tone of that telegram is still fresh in Umezu's memory.

For the anger of the base camp, Umezu Mijiro can understand it, just this year, the Kwantung Army suffered serious losses in the Battle of Nomenhan, and then killed two major generals and more than ten officers in succession during the encirclement and suppression of the anti-alliance in the territory, and the fortress that hoarded a large number of materials was broken by the enemy one after another, if it was a well-equipped Soviet army, it was normal, the key is that the fortress was actually captured by a group of people from the Chinese Anti-Japanese Alliance, especially the Hormozhin fortress that is now unknown, which makes the Tokyo base camp extremely dissatisfied.

If it weren't for someone who spoke for the emperor for him, Umezu Mijiro, the base camp would have considered that the continuous change of commanders of the Kwantung Army in the short term would affect the progress of the expansion. Based on the huge losses in the current offensive operation, I am afraid that the results of his Umezu Mijiro will not be better than that of his predecessor Ueda Kenkichi.

The base camp not only gave a harsh reprimand on the telegram for the loss of Umezu Mijiro's troops. He also told him clearly that the battlefield in Kannai is getting longer and longer. The number of troops is already extremely tight. Newly formed troops, as well as various supplies. It is necessary to give priority to ensuring the battlefield in the Guannai. As for the Kwantung Army, there will be no expansion before the end of the year. If we want to add new staff, we will have to wait for next year.

Although the base camp finally acquiesced to Umezu Mijiro's first cut and then played, the 14th Division, which was originally transferred to Manchuria for rest and recovery, was transferred to Jiamusi to cooperate with the 4th Division to encircle and suppress the anti-coalition forces in the Dashan area. However, the 50th Infantry Wing was carded and used to form the 29th Division. Moreover, the base camp repeatedly stressed that without the direct order of the base camp, the Kwantung Army could only let the 14th Division participate in the blockade mission, and it was not allowed to be transferred to participate in the battle at will.

Although the base camp did not say it directly. But the meaning of this telegram also told Umezu Mijiro in disguise that he had proposed a tight seal. The plan to freeze the other party to death and trap them in a narrow area west of the Songhua River in Beiman, east of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, and north of Luobei and Tangyuan has been approved. Although it was a bit of a detour, I finally agreed.

At the same time, the Kwantung Army's plan for the expansion of the Manchurian Army was also approved by the base camp. Don't think about the equipment, the equipment produced in China should give priority to ensuring the newly formed divisions and regiments, as well as supplementing the losses on the battlefield in the Guannai. As for the number of recruits recruited from Taiwan and the Korean Peninsula, this group is about 50,000 people, and all the equipment is handled by the Kwantung Army itself.

For the Tokyo base camp, this telegram is both a board and a date. When he was a child, he was fond of the difficult living environment in his stepfather's house, and developed a stoic character, although Umezu Mijiro was very angry that he was beaten. But there is no excitement about this date.

He knew that the reason why he was spared was that in addition to the good offices of several friends he had made in his early years as a vice minister in the army. There is also the factor that former land minister Nishio Toshizo, who he greatly admired when he was in the army, and Sugiyama Moto, director of education, spoke. Of course, the reason why the emperor did not punish himself heavily is probably because he was in the right position in the 226 mutiny.

Although most of the additional troops this time are North Koreans and Taiwanese. But these people have been brainwashed and are simply perfect cannon fodder, and the base camp has also decided to massively increase the technical equipment of the Kwantung Army. The base camp has decided to form an additional 240-mm howitzer heavy artillery wing and a 105-mm cannon battery for the Kwantung Army. Two wings of one hundred and fifty-mm heavy howitzers. One battalion of 150-mm cannons and one brigade of 300-mm heavy artillery.

In addition to the significant reinforcement of artillery, the base camp also decided to transfer two armored train squadrons to the Kwantung Army next year. Three tank squadrons, a large number of anti-aircraft artillery brigades, as well as a large number of radio communication squadrons. And all the divisions will be composed of fifteen thousand people in peacetime. Strengthened to a wartime strength of 24,000 people.

At the same time, in order to prepare for combat against the Soviet Union, the base camp is also preparing to add a flying group, three flying regiments, two heavy bomber teams, three light bomber teams, three fighter teams, and one transport plane team to the Kwantung Army in next year's army expansion plan.

In order to make the Kwantung Army expansion plan successful, Japan's Tokyo base camp sent an observation group headed by Prince Chongten, the emperor's younger brother, to arrive in Xinjing by plane a month later to inspect the situation of the various departments of the Kwantung Army before deciding on the expansion plan of the Kwantung Army, and at the same time to visit the Dongning Fortress, which Manchukuo claims to be the first fortress in the East, for the safety of His Excellency the Prince, Umezu Mijiro immediately ordered Lieutenant General Iimura to have a total of more than 25,000 people from the Fourth Division, the Fourteenth Division, and the Eighth Division, with 20,000 puppet troops. The Anti-Japanese Federation operating in the lower reaches of the Songhua River (pseudo-Sanjiang Province) in the Sanjiang Plain was crusaded for half a month.

"Bell, bell!"

When he was discussing the plan to encircle and suppress the river with Iimura, Yamashita Fengfumi and others, he heard someone knocking on the door outside, "Come in." I saw Masao Terada, head of the Senior Staff Section of the Kwantung Army Headquarters of the Japanese Army, hurriedly walking in with a telegram.

"What is it about Terada-kun that makes you so flustered?"

"Your Excellency, Commander, an urgent telegram from the 1st Division."

"Nani! Read. ”

"Hey! As soon as our department received the order from the headquarters, it immediately contacted the garrison stationed in Sun Wu, and found that the Sun Wu garrison had lost contact with the remnants of the headquarters of the Anti-Japanese Resistance Union not long ago, and thought that all the jade had been shattered. ”

"Yaga! This group of monkeys is actually spreading around, and it seems that the fortress of Hormozhin must have been taken down by them. ”

Because of the continuous heavy snow this winter, the heavy snow has been half a meter high, and even in some places it is more than one meter deep, and the road is very difficult to walk, and the anti-Japanese federation is hiding in sparsely populated places, where the snow is even greater, and the Chinese people have also destroyed the railways in the North Manchurian area, so that the Japanese army has lost its ability to maneuver, and if you want to encircle and suppress the Chinese people in Hormozhin, you can only wait until the beginning of spring next year, but you can't let this group of anti-Japanese people continue to be arrogant.

At the suggestion of Saburo Endo, Umezu Mijiro ordered the Kwantung Army's air force stationed in North Manchuria, and all the bombers were sent out to bomb the Hormozin Fortress, the fortress was gone, and it could still be built, as long as this group of damned anti-Manchurian forces was wiped out, everything was worth it, under the order of Umezu Mijiro, the Japanese army stationed in the North Manchurian area flew to the Hormojin Fortress to bomb, and at the same time, Umezu Mijiro ordered Lieutenant General Iimura to immediately lead the previously prepared materials to carry out the encirclement and suppression operation on the lower river. (To be continued......)