Mukden, General Headquarters of the Kwantung Army.

In the sound of hurried footsteps, the dusty Okamura Ninji had already strode into the xiǎo conference room surrounded by two Osa's officers, and Umezu Mijiro, Yoshimoto Sadaichi and Tamura Yoshitomi, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly stood up and applauded to welcome, for Okamura Ninji's arrival, Umezu Mijiro was still quite welcome.

Okamura Ningji was not polite, hurriedly said a few words, and asked directly: "Umejin-kun, how is Beiping?" ”

"Peking has been lost." Without waiting for Umezu Mijiro to answer, Tamura Yoshitomi preemptively said, "The frenzied Shina Army sent 10,000 gasoline incendiary bombs to Beiping City, and the entire Beiping City was burned to rubble, the commander of the North China Front, General Yan Jun, the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army defending the city, and more than 100,000 expatriates..., collectively shattered!" ”

Okamura Ningji's expression suddenly darkened when he heard this, although such a result had long been expected by him, but when all this happened, he was still a little emotionally difficult to accept, once upon a time, the unstoppable Imperial Army on the battlefield of the "China" country actually fell into the miserable situation of being grilled alive?

Yoshimoto Sadachi continued: "If Beiping is lost, Tianjin will not be able to be saved. ”

Umezu Mijiro finally said: "Okamura-kun, Beiping has been lost, and Tianjin is afraid that it will not be able to hold out for a few days, but in five days at most, the cold snap from Xibo to Asia will go south, and then the mechanized heavy army group of our Kwantung Army will be able to enter the customs in a big way, and North China is still in the bag of the Great Japanese Empire!" ”

"Nope." Okamura Ninji waved his hand and said in a deep voice, "The Kwantung Army can't attack!" ”

"What?" Yoshimoto Sadaichi and Tamura Yoshitomi looked at each other and said, "Can't attack!?" ”

"Yes, the Kwantung Army must not take the initiative to attack!" Okamura Ninji said this, and said, "Since Beiping has been lost, the general trend of the war in North China has gone" It is no longer necessary for the Kwantung Army to go south, and the chances of victory are slim, and the top priority is to take advantage of the cold current to go south, "When the Chinese Air Force cannot take off, we will go all out to manage the South Manchurian defense line!" ”

"What?" Umezu Mijiro frowned and said, "Run the South Manchurian defense line with all your might?" ”

"Umezu-kun, the judgment of meteorological experts may not be credible." Okamura Ninji analyzed with patience, "Even if the bad weather in North China will last for more than four weeks, and even if the Benchina Air Force will not be able to take to the air to bomb, can the Kwantung Army's armored clusters and heavy artillery clusters really be sure to inflict heavy damage on Yue Weihan's main force in the four fields within four weeks?" ”

Tamura Yoshitomi said: "My Kwantung Army has an absolute advantage in firepower and troops, why is it not sure?" ”

"But what if Yue Weihan's main force avoided fighting and only circled with the imperial army on the North China Plain?" Okamura Ningji said, "Five years ago, Yue Weihan's troops were only less than 100,000 people, and the equipment was so bad that he couldn't say it" had already made the 500,000 imperial army jīng ruined his head, let alone now? ”

After saying this, Okamura Ningji said with a solemn expression: "Tamura-kun, we can't wishfully think that when the main force of the Kwantung Army moves south, the Shina Army will also fight to the death with our Kwantung Army because the Shina Army is on the offensive" This is unwise, stupid, and even more so to pay the price of blood! ”

Umezu Mijiro and the other three were speechless for a moment, expecting the Nationalist Army to engage in a strategic decisive battle with the main force of the Kwantung Army when it was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength and firepower, and the Air Force could not rise into the air to bomb, which was indeed a bit wishful thinking.

After a long time, Yoshimoto said, "But, do we have any other choice?" ”

Tamura Yoshitomi also said: "If we are trapped in Manchuria, when the Chinese army repairs the airports and ports in Beiping, Tianjin, Tanggu, and Qingdao, the Burmese Chinese reserve troops and munitions will continue to be transported to North China, and the bomber group of the Chinese Air Force can carry out unscrupulous bombing of Manchuria and the factories, ports and airports of the empire itself, how can this battle be fought?" In the long run, even if the Kwantung Army has five million men, it will still not be able to hold Manchuria, and the empire will definitely be defeated! ”

Umezu Mijiro also said slowly: "Yes, the Great Japanese Empire has no choice." ”

"Nope." Okamura Ningji Huo Ran raised his hand and said, "There is still hope for the empire, and there is a better choice for the Kwantung Army!" ”

After that, Okamura Ningji strode to the military topographic map posted on the wall, and immediately pointed to the map and said: "This better choice is to shrink the forces and go all out to manage the South Manchurian defense line, just like when we operated the North Manchurian defense line, we will go all out to manage the South Manchurian defense line, take advantage of the fact that the air force in China cannot take off, and we are making every effort to repair the airports and ports in Beiping, Tianjin, and Tanggu, hoarding materials, and gathering troops. ”

"In the coastal plain of the western Liaoning corridor and the Liaodong Peninsula, we also have to build hundreds of thousands of miles of tunnels, but also to use reinforced concrete into the well to reinforce, to build a rare underground Great Wall, in a word, we want to turn the throat of Liaoxi and Liaodong into the tomb of the Zhina army, and completely bury the Zhina Jīng Rui commanded by Yue Weihan, and then, "... Counterattack again! ”

At that time, in order to prevent the Soviet Red Army from going south, the Japanese army had hollowed out thousands of peaks between the lofty mountains and mountains of North Manchuria, and built a solid defense line of more than 2,000 kilometers on the border of Manchuria and Manchuria.

Yoshimoto Sadachi retorted: "Even if we run South Manchurian as solid as possible, how can we resist the bombing of the Shina Air Force? ”

"I've thought of a way to deal with this." Okamura Ninji was obviously prepared," he said unhurriedly at the moment, "We can build a large number of radar stations in the Liaodong Peninsula and the Liaoxi Corridor and in the depths of the Yanshan Mountains, so that if the China Air Force in North China has any action, we can give early warning in time, if the China Air Force dispatches a fighter group, it can use a high artillery group to deal with it, and if the China Air Force dispatches a bomber group, it will immediately dispatch all the fighters of the air force to strangle them with all their might, as long as the cost of bombing the China Air Force is higher than the benefits, its next bombing operations will inevitably be reined in." ”

Umezu Mijiro nodded imperceptibly when he heard this, as if he was a little moved.

As early as a year before Britain and Germany developed real military radars, the scientific community had actually mastered the core technology of radar, but it was a pity that the Japanese army base camp did not attach importance to the development of electronic technology, so that they missed the opportunity to lead the world in vain.

In the Pacific War, an important reason for the defeat of the Japanese Navy was that its radar technology was inferior to that of the US Navy! If the weather is clear, and the reconnaissance planes can be relied upon to discover the enemy's troops, and the chances of both sides are equal, but once bad meteorological conditions occur or the reconnaissance planes become blind and deaf at night, then with the help of advanced radar technology, the US Navy can detect the Japanese Navy at least 50 kilometers in advance, and this will give the US Navy a great advantage.

The Japanese army in the Chinese battlefield hardly had to face the bombing of the Chinese air force, so it did not pay attention to the use of radar at all.

The Japanese army in Nanyang in the Southeast Asian theater attached great importance to the application of radar, but it was a pity that the time left by the Allies to the Japanese army was too short and did not wait for the Japanese army to build a complete radar chain, Chennault's 14th Air Force launched a rapid counteroffensive, and the Japanese air force in Nanyang was quickly annihilated, and then the opportunity to build a radar station was completely lost. However, the situation facing the Kwantung Army now was very different from that of the Japanese army in Nanyang.

First of all, the current air defense firepower of the Kwantung Army is far from being comparable to that of the Japanese army in Nanyang, and secondly, the Kwantung Army still has enough time to build a radar base station, and finally and most importantly, as long as the Kwantung Army does not take the initiative to move south, I am afraid that the Chinese army will not rush to attack, at least until it is fully prepared.

That is, the Kwantung Army had enough time to operate the South Manchurian defensive line.

Tamura Yoshitomi was not convinced, and still retorted: "What if the Chinese army bypasses the South Manchurian defense line and lands directly in Liaodong Bay or the Liaodong Peninsula?" In this case, wouldn't the South Manchurian Defense Line, which we had painstakingly managed, become the same face-saving goods as the Maginot Line of France, and become a big joke today? ”

"Landing in Liaodong Bay and Liaodong Peninsula?" Okamura Ninji was speechless, and he didn't even bother to explain.

Although this Tamura Yoshitomi became the deputy chief of the general staff of the Kwantung General Army, he lacked strategic vision, relying on the strength of the Kwantung Army to have more than 10,000 sharp infantry and many tanks and blades in the red mouth. With many heavy artillery, if the Chinese army really dares to forcibly land in Liaodong Bay or the Liaodong Peninsula, it will definitely come and die!

Liaodong Bay is not Singapore, let alone the Bund in Shanghai, and the Kwantung Army is not the Southern Army!

Before seizing absolute air supremacy, if the Chinese army really wants to forcibly seize the beach in Liaodong Bay or the Liaodong Peninsula, and does not fill it with two or three million people, I am afraid that it will not even be able to take a decent beachhead, and how can the counter-assault of the Kwantung Army's armored clusters and the concentrated bombardment of heavy artillery clusters be decorations?

What's more, the strength projection capability of the Chinese navy is still quite limited, and it can only project at most one regiment of troops to the front line at a time, and with such a projection capability, let alone rushing to land on the beach in Liaodong Bay, which is heavily guarded and heavily trooped, it may not be so easy to rush to land on the west coast of Korea, which is relatively weakly defended. However, Okamura Ninji did not believe that the Chinese army would rush to land on the west coast of Korea.

Because Changbai Mountain is also within the scope of the South Manchurian defense line, even if the Chinese army occupies Korea, it is still unable to overcome the natural danger of Changbai Mountain, and it is still unable to enter Manchuria, at most it is to cut off the connection between Manchuria and the mainland, but for the empire, this difficulty is not insurmountable.

"Of course, it is not possible to land in Liaodong Bay, but what if we take a detour to the ancient plateau of Méng?" Yoshimoto said again.

"That's not going to work either." Okamura Ninji said in a deep voice, "The contest between the Kwantung Army and the China Army is completely a contest between mechanized heavy equipment, and the infantry is no longer the decisive force, and there are no roads or railways on the ancient plateau of Méng, how to solve the logistics support of the mechanized heavy equipment of the China Army?" ”

After that, Okamura Ningji slapped the map heavily again, and said loudly: "At least within five years, if the Chinese army wants to enter Manchuria, it can only storm Liaoxi and go out!" As for five years later, the United States and Britain are only afraid that the United States and Britain will be defeated in the European theater as early as possible, and then the German army will invade Burma in a big way through Xiǎo Asia, the Middle East and even India. ”

Let Okamura Ninji say this, Umezu Mijiro suddenly had a sudden enlightenment.

I thought that the source of troops in Japan had dried up, and the national economy was on the verge of collapse, and the final defeat seemed inevitable, but with Okamura Ninji's in-depth analysis, things seemed to have taken a turn again, and it seemed that as long as the Kwantung Army could hold Manchuria, Japan would still have a chance to turn defeat into victory.

However, Umezu Mijiro still said with some concern: "Okamura-kun, even if my Kwantung Army is fully engaged in the South Manchurian defense line, can I really hold Manchuria for five years?" You must know that the air force of our Guanji Army is at an absolute disadvantage, and it is probably very difficult to really turn the situation around with just a few dozen or even hundreds of radar stations. ”

"The radar station alone will definitely not work, after a long time, or after the Chinese army has suffered several losses, it will definitely discover the mystery." Okamura Ninji nodded, and said, "However, I don't expect a hundred or so radar stations to be able to offset the air superiority of the Chinese army, haven't the Germans already promised to support our spraying aircraft?" Three months soon, six months at the latest, this batch of spraying shè machines will definitely be in place, with the spraying shè planes, don't have too many of them, only need two teams to set up the spray shè planes, and then cooperate with the radar base station, the sky over Manchuria will become a no-fly zone for the Chinese Air Force! Umezu Mijiro finally cleared his last doubts and said no more.

Yoshitomi Tamura, who had just come back to his senses next to him, suddenly said: "What if the Shina army directly attacks the empire itself? Although there are many coastal fortresses in the mainland, the army left behind is not even a reserve, either an old man or a child, or simply some NV people, how can such an army confront the Chinese army? ”

At this time, Okamura Ninji also fell into a long silence.

What Yoshitomi Tamura was worried about was what Okamura Ninji couldn't solve.

Manchuria has the Kwantung Army, which can be impregnable for at least five years, but no one dares to guarantee that it will be able to relocate the whole country once the Chinese army is determined to really seize the beach in the Japanese mainland, even if its naval capacity is insufficient, it is still possible to take the risk and succeed. Fortunately, the four islands on the mainland are narrow and resource-poor, and there are often hurricanes, earthquakes and other disasters, compared with the fertile Manchuria, there is really nothing to abandon it, in fact, as early as after the destruction of the Japanese navy, the Japanese army base camp was already thinking about the "landing", and many factories, schools, and institutions in the mainland have been moved to Manchukuo.