The Far Theater Command was not located in Guisui City, but in a village called Liuxinzhuang by the river outside the city. The War Department officers from Beijing did not enter the city, and the convoy drove directly to Liuxinzhuang.

After the start of the Southeast Asian Campaign, the Japanese base camp readjusted its military deployment in China, and the South China Dispatch Army was abolished, and the Japanese army in China mainly consisted of three major parts: the East China Dispatch Army on the Yangtze River line, the North China Dispatch Army on the Mongolian, Inner Mongolia, Chahar and Rehe lines, and the Kwantung Army.

The Japanese army deployed about 61 divisions and regiments on the Chinese battlefield, with a total strength of nearly 1.8 million troops, accounting for about 60 percent of the total strength of the Japanese army, and three divisions and regiments were deployed in Korea and Taiwan.

The Chinese side focused its counteroffensive on the Japanese troops stationed in Mongolia.

The Japanese army stationed in Mongolia belonged to the combat series of the North China Dispatch Army, with only three divisions and three cavalry brigades in the 26th, 27th and 35th, with a total strength of about 90,000 people, and a part of the Manchu and Mongolian puppet army.

"You see, due to the tense situation of the battlefield in Europe, Soviet Russia has almost exhausted the strength of the Far East Army, and there are only nine divisions and less than 200,000 troops left in the Far East, but they have to guard the long front of more than 3,000 kilometers from Tangnu Ulianghai to Verkhniy Udinsk, and the defense line is full of loopholes, and it is currently too busy to take care of itself. After the start of the Nanyang Campaign, the main force of the Japanese army was transferred to the Southeast Asian theater, the strength of the Kwantung Army and the North China Dispatch Army was weakened by different Cheng Dù, most of the thirteen divisions of the Japanese North China Dispatch Army were concentrated on the Rehe and Chahar lines, and the Mongolian Army currently has only three divisions and some independent cavalry brigades, and the purpose of our campaign is to destroy the Japanese Army in Mongolia, recover Kulen and Verkhniy Udinsk, and cut off the connection between the Soviet Army and the Japanese Army. Speaking of this, Jiang Fangzhen, deputy chief of the general staff, picked up the command pole in his hand. "According to the campaign plan, the Northern Theater of Operations will be the main attacking force of the campaign, the Ninth Army and the Thirty-first Army will march from Uriya Sutai to Kulen, the Thirteenth Army, the Thirty-eighth Army and the Third Panzer Army, the First and Second Cavalry Corps will march north along the Suiku Railway, and the Fifteenth Army will be responsible for the defense of the line from Kobro to Uriya Sutai to prevent the attack of the Soviet army. The 16th Army, together with the 3rd Cavalry Corps, attacked in the direction of Xilin Gol. At the same time, the 27th and 28th Armies of the Northeast Front and the 4th Panzer Army also launched a counteroffensive from Chahar to Xilingol. The rest of the troops in the Northeast Theater and the North China Theater launched a limited counteroffensive on the Rehe line to prevent the Japanese army from North China from sending reinforcements to Mongolia. On the front line of Shanhaiguan, the North China Theater is still on the defensive for the time being. The main objective of this counterattack was to cut off the Far Eastern Railway, and the operation was mainly carried out west of the Great Khing'an Mountains. ”

"What if the Japanese army flees to the mountains of the Great Khing'an Mountains?" Zhang Weicheng asked.

"Then let them go for the time being, the main target of this operation is not the Northeast, but the Far Eastern Railway." Jiang Zuobin said. "If the light pursuit crosses the Great Khing'an Mountains, it is possible to fall into the trap laid by the Kwantung Army."

"In this operation into Mongolia, logistics support is the key. After the start of the campaign, the railway department should pay close attention to repairing the damaged Suiku railway, and at the same time, the Chahar railway should continue to extend to Xilin Gol, and we will choose to counterattack the northeast from Horqincao in the future. Xu Shuzheng said, his words made the generals present very excited. This was the first time since the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that the highest authorities had raised the issue of recovering Northeast China.

"Chief Xu, has the headquarters determined the time to send troops to the Northeast?" Su Bingwen said. He is a native of Northeast China, and since the beginning of the 918 Incident, he has always thought that one day he will be able to lead troops to recover the three eastern provinces, and now ten years have passed, and his dream has finally come true.

"It's not twenty-six years, we weren't ready then." Xu Shuzheng frowned slightly, the defeat in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War made him haunted him. Although it was due to the fact that about one-third of the troops were pinned down by Soviet Russia on the northern front, Xu Shuzheng was deeply humiliated by the fall of Shanghai and Nanjing. The fall of the Jiangnan region was purely due to the contradictions between the local warlords and the central government, and due to the insufficient number of airfields, most of the Chinese air forces, which were not weaker than Japan, could only watch from central China, and Qi Xieyuan was afraid of the enemy like a tiger. Always trying to preserve its strength, it caused the Japanese army to break through on the north bank of the Yangtze River and rush in, thus leading to the loss of Shanghai. "We now have three times as many troops as the Japanese, and we are better equipped than them. Japan, a small island country, actually wanted to help the British support the South China Sea Battlefield, but it was purely beyond its means. At present, their main naval and air forces are concentrated in the Southeast Asian battlefield, and the Chinese battlefield has insufficient troops, and it is already in a position of being passively beaten. Our industrial growth and troop strength increase are much faster than the Japanese, and every month we have more than 150,000 trained troops equipped with new weapons to join the Wehrmacht's operational sequence, while the Japanese have now reduced their strength on the Chinese battlefield from the peak of 2.3 million to 1.8 million, and we have far surpassed the Japanese army in terms of equipment and numbers of aviation, armored troops, mechanized troops, and artillery, and now we can still have a solid advantage over the Japanese army with only the strength of the Northern Theater and the Northeast Theater. Moreover, it is supported by half of the troops in the North China Theater. ”

Xu Shuzheng: This is not a big deal, the Chinese side has about 2.8 million troops on this front, and it is fully capable of carrying out a full-scale counteroffensive. But the problem is that the opinion of the German-Austrian military advisory group is to use China to contain the invading Japanese army, first solve the Japanese navy, and then directly attack the Japanese mainland. The Chinese Army, on the other hand, preserved its strength and used it in the war against the Soviet Union.

Moreover, the Axis countries put their strategic goal in Australia, Xiao Xu really didn't understand the strategic significance of sending troops to Australia, but under the persuasion of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor, he still expressed his obedience to the overall strategy of the Axis powers.

In this way, China's full-scale counteroffensive plan has been postponed indefinitely, and instead strengthening its naval strength has become the top priority at present.

"Chief Xu is right, the longer the time drags on, the better it will be for us, and now is not the best time for a decisive battle!" Jiang Zuobin diverted the topic, the overall strategy of the Axis powers is still top secret, and it cannot be discussed yet, "The general offensive will be launched on June 12, and all departments must advance steadily, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault, we just want to use our strength to crush the Japanese to death, and not give them any opportunity to take advantage of." ”

This is the battle plan drawn up by the German-Austrian military advisory group, which is fundamentally different from the "lightning tactics" adopted in France, and the German-Austrian military has adopted a strategy of steady advance when fighting the Russian army on the Eastern Front, relying on its superiority in equipment, not giving the Soviet army any chance to counterattack at all.

Unlike another time and space, Deao is full of confidence and has a sufficient supply of resources, but it is not in a hurry. Because Germany and Austria had a huge advantage in air and firepower, the casualties of the Soviet army were much greater than those on the German and Austrian side. (To be continued......) R1292