[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 857: The Abnormal Japanese Army (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Although Hirohito hates being persecuted like this, especially by his own people and ministers, as a monarch who leads more than 80 million people, Hirohito knows better than anyone the power of public opinion. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This time was no exception, when the book of ten thousand words flew like snowflakes to the base camp and in front of Emperor Hirohito, Hirohito knew that he could not be silent, but he did not know much about marching warfare, although he had served in the army for a short time, but he was not an expert when it came to marching and fighting.

Soon, Hirohito's edict reached the base camp, demanding that the base camp immediately urge the North China Front to immediately start the battle plan of the counteroffensive, and the results must be produced in three months at most, otherwise the wave of protests in the country will further expand.

After receiving the Emperor's edict, the entire base camp was busy, and although His Majesty the Emperor was also very concerned about the development of the war situation since the beginning of the war with China, he paid little attention to the specific course of the war, and generally left it to the military headquarters to deal with it himself. Even for such a big event as the defeat of Taierzhuang, His Majesty the Emperor did not say too much.

But this time, he personally issued an edict to avenge the dead warriors, which could not but cause a shock to the entire base camp. However, the base camp is not an ordinary department, it is the highest military headquarters of Japan during the war, and it is also the most important department of the Japanese government at this time.

Moreover, the base camp is not a permanent department, and it is not allowed to set up such a military command department with such a concentration of power in peacetime. Originally, in the early days of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, neither China nor Japan formally declared war on each other, so the base camp could not be established. However, regulations are regulations, and regulations must also be changed according to practical needs, so on November 18, 1937 (Showa 12), the current Emperor Hirohito of Japan issued Imperial Decree No. 658, abolishing the rule that the base camp could only be set up in wartime, and issuing a base camp order stipulating that the base camp could also be set up in the event of an incident.

Subsequently, a base camp was set up according to the new order. The headquarters meeting consisted of the Emperor, the Chief and Deputy Chiefs of Staff, the Chief and Deputy Chiefs of the Military Command Department, the First Chief of the General Staff Headquarters (in charge of operational affairs) and the Chief of the Operations Division, the First Director of the Military Command Department and the Chief of the Operations Division. The Ministers of War and the Navy attended the meeting as observers, but did not have the right to speak. The base camp does not include the Cabinet, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and other government civilian officials, and most of the institutions under the headquarters are the General Staff Headquarters and the Military Command Department.

The operation of such a complex military organization is very strict and cumbersome, and every major battle or incident must go through a long period of study and demonstration, and then a detailed plan must be drawn up, and finally it will be issued to the troops who will carry it out.

Therefore, Hirohito's edict caused a panic after it reached the base camp, and the base camp immediately sent an urgent telegram to Okamura Ninji, the commander of the North China Front, ordering the North China side to come up with a feasible battle plan as soon as possible, and to fight a beautiful battle within three months, otherwise the entire Imperial Japanese Army would inevitably fall into an embarrassing passivity, so Okamura Ninji convened this meeting without the slightest preparation.

Fortunately, there was something to be gained from this meeting, so after the meeting, Okamura Ninji issued an urgent order to the troops to prepare for the war, requiring all units to immediately collect military rations and stock up on ammunition.

However, because the territory of the North China Front has shrunk a lot this year, the number of various units of the Japanese puppet army has increased a lot in a short period of time, so it has increased a lot of burden on the peasants in the occupied areas, and the grain and salary collected by the Japanese army this year has increased by four layers compared with previous years.

Although the life of the big guy in previous years was not easy, he survived for a year, got rid of the landlord's family, and then was robbed by traitors and devils, but he still had some surplus. Then take advantage of the end of the autumn harvest to go to the mountains to collect some game and wild vegetables and other things, barely able to live, at least the family will not drink the northwest wind during the New Year. And as long as spring opens, things like bark and grass can also be wrapped, and barely a year will come down.

However, this year's heavy taxes have put many families in a desperate situation due to such heavy taxes in the occupied areas, and many families have calculated that every person in a year will not even get two taels of grain a day, and suddenly the people in the entire occupied areas have fallen into a panic.

The panic in the occupied area soon spread back to Guisui, and the first information Ma Zheng received after Xidejiaer was about the occupied area. Ma Zheng has a deep understanding of the life of the people in the occupied areas, which is a real life of a slave who has died in the country.

Not to mention that the Japanese army wants to bully them, the Japanese ronin can run rampant in the entire occupied area with a pair of dogskin paste Yang flags, and those traitors and puppet soldiers who are attached to the Japanese army are even more tigers, groveling to the Japanese army, but they have a different face when facing their compatriots.

When he learned that the entire occupied area was panicked because of the Japanese army's grain requisition, Ma Zheng keenly judged that this time was not simple. It was common for the Japanese army to collect grain from peasants in the occupied areas, and as far as Ma Zheng knew, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, there were as many as one million Japanese combat soldiers stationed in Chinese mainland, and this was only the number of combat soldiers who went directly to the battlefield to participate in the battle. Add to that the logistical and civilian staff, the diaspora, the numbers are huge.

Food is vital to the life and death of the army, and it is a key issue whether the Japanese invading army can rely on fighting on Chinese mainland. However, the consumption of military rations was huge, and the length of the transportation route was beyond the reach of the Japanese mainland. In addition, due to the material losses of the Japanese army in the Chinese battlefield for many years, the local army gradually cut off the supply of the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield and only met its needs for weapons and ammunition, and the Japanese army in the Chinese battlefield was forced to carry out a wide range of on-the-spot self-survival movements.

At first, the Japanese army frantically plundered grain stores and civilian grain everywhere they went, and set up temporary granaries near troop stations and military stations to accumulate military rations. Later, the Japanese invading army set up maintenance associations in various towns and villages, and ordered them to hand over to the Japanese troops food and daily necessities such as rice, grain, cooking oil, poultry meat, firewood, tobacco and alcohol, and daily necessities in exchange for empty guarantees that they would not indiscriminately burn and kill.

Since August 1937, with the smooth progress of the Japanese army's military operations, the puppet army and the puppet regime and other autonomous committees have been established one after another, and for the Japanese army, providing military rations is an important "duty" and "obligation" of the puppet regime at all levels. Only in Wujiang County, Zhejiang, at the beginning of the occupation, the Wujiang puppet regime gave the Japanese army a small amount of food and salary from the expropriated field endowment, and the actual levy of legal currency was 860,000 yuan in 1938, which increased to 1.35 million yuan in 1939.

However, in Ma Zheng's memory, the Japanese army's indiscriminate and frantic collection of grain and wages from Chinese peasants regardless of the economic situation in the occupied areas should have started after 1941, and although the current Japanese army is crazy, it will still take into account the economic development of the occupied areas to some extent, after all, according to the initial plan of the Japanese army, they did not invade China and leave, but to stay in China, and to completely incorporate China into Japan's territory. Therefore, it was not in the interest of the Japanese army to bring down the economy of the occupied areas.

However, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the pressure on the Japanese army on the home side increased sharply, and the competition with the American army on the southern front became increasingly fierce, so the supply of troops on the Chinese battlefield was much more restricted. By 1942, except for some ammunition that could not be produced in the occupied areas of China, other materials would hardly be transported to the Chinese battlefield, and at the same time, a large number of raw materials from the Chinese battlefield had to be plundered back from the Japanese mainland.

Therefore, at this point, part of the energy of the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield gradually shifted to self-sufficiency, and if there was no food, they went to grab and plant it themselves, and in 1942, the Japanese army invented the "Qingxiang" movement, which was more severe than the sweeping. It severely undermined the economic development of the occupied areas, and at the same time forced more Chinese to rise up against the brutal rule of the Japanese.

However, the current Japanese army is not so desperate to levy food and wages, and at this time, the Pacific War has not yet broken out, Japan has not been much threatened, and grain production has not been affected, and it can basically meet the needs of the troops.

Even though the Japanese army has lost a lot of territory in North China this year, the real grain production in North China has hardly been affected, and it is a bit strange that the Japanese army has done this.

Moreover, North China has just experienced a major war, especially the North China Front Army has suffered heavy losses in recent years, and the most urgent thing for the Japanese army to do at this time is to maintain stability and comprehensive management, rather than making the entire occupied area panic like now, so Ma Zheng judged that the Japanese army must have its intentions in doing this, but he couldn't guess what the Japanese army was going to do. (To be continued.) )