Chapter 225: Gathering in Saibei (Asking for subscriptions, monthly passes, and various !! ）

The troublesome military meeting of the North China Front continued, and General Binshan Moto did not expect that the North China Front, which had been greatly expected by the base camp and His Majesty the Emperor, would have no fighting spirit at all, and was frightened by a local army in China, which made Binshan Yuan disappointed and extremely angry.

Seeing Binshan Yuan's thoughts, Major General Naosaburo Gangbe hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, Commander, please allow you to explain the situation of the 40th Army in detail, and then Your Excellency the Commander will make a decision?" ”

"Gangbu-kun, please say, you are the chief of staff of the front army, and you have this right and this obligation." Bin Shan Yuan quickly reined in the anger on his face and said.

"Your Excellency Commander, this 40th Group Army of China is a local unit in China, and the commander is called Chen Feng, who has not received systematic military education before. The 40th Group Army, formerly known as the Xinghe County Security Regiment in Suiyuan Province, China, with 2 battalions of 800 people, was established on March 11, Showa 12. This unit was supported by a large number of German-made weapons, and its individual equipment was not much worse than that of the Imperial Japanese Army. ”

"The earliest record of this army fighting the imperial army is in early June of Showa 12, when a special task force under the special high-tech department was counter-intercepted when it intercepted and killed Chen Feng's transport team, and all 120 elites were wiped out, including a Shaozuo."

"After the China Incident, the imperial army marched all the way west and quickly reached Tianzhen, an important town in northern Jin. In that battle, this security regiment repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on our troops. With his cooperation, the imperial army's plan to capture Tianzhen and then seize the Shanxi Plateau failed, and at the same time lost a large number of soldiers, including Major General Sakai Hoji, the commander of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade. ”

Since then, this Chinese army has engaged the imperial army dozens of times, and the imperial army has suffered many defeats and few victories, and has been annihilated by this Chinese army with more than 100,000 troops, including 4 lieutenant generals and many major generals, and countless officers above the rank of second lieutenant. In addition, the headquarters of the army stationed in Mongolia was breached twice in a row, and the headquarters of the North China Front was surrounded once. After more than a year of development. The hateful Chinese army was gradually expanded from the security regiment to brigades, divisions, and corps. Up to now, the strength of the group army is extremely huge, and the front army really does not have the confidence to completely annihilate it. ”

After listening to the words of Major General Naosaburo Gangbe, Senior General Ben asked in surprise, "100,000 troops?" Are you saying that the Imperial Japanese Army was wiped out by more than 100,000 people in just over a year. And also the loss of so many high-ranking officers? ”

"Hay. The lowly does not dare to lie. According to the statistics of the period before the humiliation. Since the outbreak of the all-out war between Japan and China, the number of imperial troops lost at the hands of Chen Feng's troops was 113,400. In addition, no less than 100,000 Imperial Cooperative troops were lost in the hands of Chen Feng's troops. Okabe Naosaburo said.

Bin Shanyuan didn't expect that Chen Feng's troops would cause such a big loss to the North China Front, although he had also heard the name Chen Feng before. But I didn't expect the imperial army to have such a deep hatred with that Chen Feng.

"Baga, those Imperial Cooperative Army are just that, and the losses are insignificant. However, the loss of more than 100,000 imperial troops failed to wipe out Chen Feng's troops, which was a great shame. General Binshan Yuan roared angrily.

"Your Excellency, Commander, is angry, the reason why the Imperial Army has been defeated repeatedly in the past is due to the lack of intelligence of the Imperial Army. After fighting with this army for so long, the imperial army never found out the true strength of Chen Feng's troops, so it lost again and again. Moreover, not all of the more than 100,000 imperial troops lost were real soldiers, including nearly 40,000 imperial expatriates, and the real Sun loss of the front army should be more than 70,000 people. ”

"Yaga, Yaga, I don't know how many enemies there are after fighting for so long, it's really ridiculous, is it possible that Shouichi Terauchi's head was kicked by a donkey?" General Binshan Yuan scolded loudly.

After scolding, General Binshan Yuan realized that even if he scolded the heavens, it would be useless, so he slowly felt the anger in his heart and asked: "What about now, have you figured out the strength of the Chinese army, how many troops does the 40th Group Army have, how is the equipment, and what is the comprehensive combat effectiveness?" ”

Major General Naosaburo Gangbe said: "After more than a year of fighting, our army also has a great understanding of this branch of the army. In addition, Miss Suzuki, who is a special high-tech company, once infiltrated Chen Feng's department and became friends with Chen Feng's fiancée's sister, and got a lot of useful information from that woman. Therefore, the intelligence department preliminarily judged that Chen Feng's unit had a total of more than 100,000 regular troops, and at the same time there were about 80,000 militia troops, and its total strength should be about 180,000, and should not exceed 200,000. ”

"However, there is a special unit in this Chinese army, which is extremely strong in combat and everyone understands Japanese, and has repeatedly infiltrated the areas occupied by the Imperial Army to carry out sabotage. In addition, Chen Feng's unit not only has infantry, but also cavalry, artillery, engineers, armored troops, automobile troops, and aviation troops, and has a complete range of arms. Previously, our army had always regarded the Central Army of Chiang, the leader of China, as the focus of the offensive, and did not invest much energy in the local troops of China, including the 40th Group Army of China, so that this damned China army could rise in such a short period of time. ”

"Yo Xi, Gangbu Jun has analyzed it very thoroughly, so compared with this Chinese army, how is the strength of the imperial army in Northern China?" Bin Shan Yuan continued to ask.

"Back to Your Excellency, although the front army suffered heavy losses in the battle some time ago, due to the shrinkage, the troops have gathered together. At present, the front army has a total of 9 divisions and 4 independent brigades, and there are also three independent garrison wings, with a total strength of 240,000, plus more than 50,000 imperial troops, the total strength is about 300,000, plus the more than 50,000 recruits who are about to be transferred to the front army in China, the total strength of the North China Front army should soon exceed 350,000. Okabe Naosaburo said methodically.

Although there are still great difficulties in eliminating the 40th Group Army of China, no matter how difficult it is, the Imperial Japanese Army must catch up, create opportunities if there is no chance, and be sure to complete the orders issued by the base camp.

While the North China Front was discussing how to deal with him, Chen Feng was waiting for members of the medical observation team from Britain, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union in Xinghe.

Since it is a national government, the national government is now in a time of internal and external troubles. Therefore, Lao Chiang needed the support of foreign powers even more. With the assistance of the National Government, the observer missions from all countries moved swiftly and were all in Xinghe by 25 August.

Except for the Soviets, who arrived on the 23rd, the other observation groups all arrived in Xinghe on the 25th, and on the evening of the 25th, Chen Feng held a welcome dinner for all the members of the observation group at the headquarters of the 40th Group Army.

These people did not come to China to have a good meal, so after Chen Feng expressed his goodwill, the entire observation group put forward his intentions.

Before the efficacy of penicillin was confirmed, Chen Feng refused to make deals with anyone, and he sent 44 medical experts and front-line doctors from Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union to Datong, Jining, Zhangjiakou, Guisui, Baotou, and Chicheng according to their respective countries, and all of them were temporarily transferred to the field hospitals of various units. While assisting in the field hospital work of various units. While testing the efficacy of penicillin.

During this period, the Japanese government also protested, saying that the Nationalist Government could not link people-to-people medical exchanges with the ongoing war, and even found a lot of reasons for the long-winded newspapers to scold the Nationalist Government for being too stingy. But Chen Feng didn't accept it. You scolded your grandfather for your godfather. You can't influence the master.

Chen Feng soon got the news about the change of commander of the North China Front. Anyway, this kind of thing can't be hidden, and when he learned that Binshan Yuan actually succeeded Terauchi Shouichi as the commander of the North China Front, Chen Feng was depressed for a while. This Binshan Motoko is a hardcore militarist. As early as July 1931, he presided over the formulation of the "Outline of Policies for Resolving the Manchurian and Mongolian Problems," which clearly stipulated the principles, steps, and measures for Japan's invasion of Northeast China.

After the news of the September 18 Incident reached Tokyo, Sugiyama Yuan urgently met with Shigeharu Ninomiya, deputy director of the Showa General Staff Headquarters of the Ministry of the Army, and jointly decided to use this opportunity to expand the situation and realize his dream of dominating Northeast China in one fell swoop. Due to the instigation and instigation of Sugiyama Mototo and other military leaders, the Kwantung Army stepped up its expansion of the war of aggression. Soon, the entire territory of Northeast China fell under the control of the Kwantung Army. After the Japanese invading army invaded and occupied Northeast China, in order to divert international attention, it provoked another uprising in Shanghai. The 28 Incident and the beginning of an armed attack on Shanghai. The 19th Route Army stationed in Shanghai resisted. At the beginning of March, the Japanese army landed at Taicang and Liuhe, and the 19th Route Army was forced to withdraw from Shanghai. At this time, Sugiyama Moto, as a vice minister of the army, assisted in organizing and directing the Japanese military operation.

As the Minister of War, Binshan Yuan strongly advocated increasing the number of troops stationed in China and expanding the scale of the war, and he strongly refuted Ishihara Wan'er, who did not expand: "The so-called non-expansion is only to avoid a full-scale war, not to ignore the prestige of the imperial army." ”

Under his intervention, the Japanese Ministry of War and the relevant departments of the General Staff Headquarters jointly formulated the "Agreement on Operations in North China" and proposed to the cabinet a plan for increasing troops in North China. Subsequently, Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe convened a "five-phase meeting," and Sugiyama Motoli, who was the land minister, advocated increasing troops in North China, and he even personally issued mobilization orders to the fifth, sixth, and tenth divisions in the interior. On 15 August last year, the Japanese Government issued a "Declaration of War on China" drafted by Sugiyama Moto, and a full-scale war of aggression against China was put into practice.

It is also understandable that Chen Feng, who was appointed commander of the North China Front at this time, was a complete war maniac who was bent on bringing China into Japan's territory in order to realize the ugly ideal of the entire Japanese people to dominate East Asia.

However, Bin Shan Yuan is not very clear about the analysis of the situation, and to put it bluntly, Bin Shan Yuan is very arrogant, and he does not take the Chinese government and more than 2 million Chinese troops into account at all. Sugiyama was very optimistic about the war, clamoring to "deal a complete blow to the enemy quickly and completely, with a view to cleaning up the situation as soon as possible."

With the establishment of the Northern Branch, the Central Branch, and the Mongolian Army, as well as the establishment of the army base camp, the Japanese army captured Nanjing, the capital of China, and occupied almost all coastal cities in China.

However, even if the capital was lost, the Nationalist Government did not surrender on the knee as Binshan Yuan and others imagined, and as Lao Chiang retreated into the interior, he still did not give in, and the solution to the China incident was far away.

Unlike war maniacs like Binshan Moto, Japanese Prime Minister Fumima Konoe proceeded from the overall situation and believed that ending the war against China as soon as possible was in the best interests of the Great Japanese Empire; after all, the war had already drained the treasury for more than a year, and the government had even issued a treasury bond once, and there was a danger that the economic crisis would break out again by sending troops to occupy northeast China. Fumima Konoe knew very well that if this continued fight, Japan's domestic economy was in danger of collapsing.

However, Konoe Fumima also knows that the guys in the current cabinet are all such complete war maniacs, so they don't care about the state treasury, and it may be unrealistic to persuade them to give up their original intentions and then support him as prime minister. Therefore, in order to resolve the war against China at an early date, it is imperative to change the foreign minister and the land minister, so it is completely conceivable that Binshanyuan and others will be out of the game. (To be continued......)

PS: (It's still a chapter today, of course it's for a reason, there was no power during the day, and there was a power outage in the whole county, but those bastards didn't even give advance notice.) After the power outage, Aotian went to the city with the leaders to do something, and did not return to the county until more than eight o'clock in the evening, enduring all kinds of discomfort and various difficulties, and finally finished this chapter before 11 o'clock in the evening, forgive me!! ）