It is not only because the Kwantung Army has the largest number of soldiers, but also because the Kwantung Army can occupy a transcendent position among all the Japanese forces invading China, mainly because of the achievements of the Kwantung Army. At the time of the September 18 Incident, more than 20,000 members of the Kwantung Army captured the entire northeastern region in less than a year, and the territory obtained was more than three times the size of the Japanese mainland.

In addition, all the divisions and regiments of the Japanese army under the jurisdiction of the Kwantung Army are the top 20 permanent divisions of the Japanese army, and their combat effectiveness is very strong, and the quality of their soldiers is not much worse than that of the first batch of Japanese troops invading China after the Lugou Bridge Incident in 37, so the Kwantung Army has always been like a sharp sword hanging over the head of Chen Feng's subordinates.

Since Chen Feng was in Xinghe to resist the Japanese in 37, Chen Feng was not afraid of the Japanese army in the pass, but he always had a worry, that is, he was afraid that because of his appearance, the Kwantung Army would enter the pass in a big way, and the problem would be serious.

To tell the truth, if Japan had not turned its guns on the Soviet Union and concentrated its forces on China, it would have been possible to defeat the whole of China with the strength of the Kwantung Army and the Chinese Dispatch Army. It must be known that the reason why the Mongolian army in the history of Lu Dao was not able to attack Ningxia in Shanxi from Suixi was entirely because Fu Zuoyi's troops withstood the attack of the Mongolian army.

If the Kwantung Army had been able to send one or two divisions to the west at that time, I am afraid that with the combat strength of the Jin Sui Army, it would only be able to escape, and then the troops stationed in Mongolia would have directly captured northern Shaanxi or Ningxia and strategically completed the encirclement of the Nationalist Government, then the result of the War of Resistance might have been a different story.

Fortunately, the Japanese are far more ambitious than Chen Feng imagined, and they don't just want to acquire China's millions of square kilometers of land. They also wanted to get all the territory east of Siberia in the Soviet Union, although Chen Feng's troops made a lot of trouble in the Guannei, and even hit the Suidong steppe for a time, but the Kwantung Army still did not take any action.

With the continuous expansion of strength, Chen Feng no longer looked down on the Japanese army in the pass, especially the North China Front Army directly under the guns of Chen Feng's department, the reason why it was not completely annihilated was because Chen Feng felt that it was still useful to keep this Japanese army, otherwise with the North China Front Army's more than a dozen divisions and regiments of 300,000 people, it was the opponent of Chen Feng's million-strong army, and the two sides were not opponents at the same level at all.

It is still useful to say that the North China Front is still left. Maybe a lot of people don't know very well. Many people think that since it is anti-Japanese, there is no reason to keep the Japanese from fighting. In fact, it is really useful to leave the Japanese army, think about it, if Chen Feng's troops concentrate on annihilating the North China Front now. What a sight would it be.

Maybe the common people will sing and dance. There will be a big celebration. Chen Feng will even be regarded as China's most effective anti-Japanese hero. But what will the Japanese think, and what will the Nationalist Government think?

The Japanese must have hated Chen Feng to the core, but it's nothing. Anyway, the relationship between the two sides has become like this, and Chen Feng is really not afraid that the Japanese will hate him. He was worried about what kind of action the Japanese would take, and if the North China Front was completely annihilated, the Japanese would have two methods, the first was to concentrate their firepower against China, not only the Kwantung Army would enter the pass, but also the troops preparing to go south against the United States and Britain would all be mobilized to the Chinese battlefield.

The second method is to withdraw troops from the Chinese battlefield, except for the Kwantung Army, all the invading Japanese troops will withdraw to Japan, and the war situation will return to the way it was before the Lugou Bridge Incident in 37.

Neither of these approaches is what Chen Feng wants to see, and the first one goes without saying, if Japan desperately wants to fight to the end with China, without the help of the United States and Britain and other countries, it is still unknown whether China can hold on.

If the Japanese were willing to make peace with the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain alone, then China would be in a troubled situation, and although it was not necessarily certain that it would be defeated, it would be wishful thinking to conclude a quick war before 45 years.

The second possibility is not necessarily a good thing for Chen Feng, although the war situation has returned to the way it was 37 years ago, but peace is still far away for China. At this time, there were two kinds of contradictions in China that dominated China's political trend, namely, national contradictions and class contradictions.

The national contradiction is the contradiction between the Chinese nation and the Yamato nation, and the class contradiction refers to the contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. As far as the present situation is concerned, it is the national contradictions that prevail, so the class contradictions have eased slightly, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have joined hands to resist Japan, and the muzzles of the guns are also unanimous to the outside world.

However, if Japan withdraws its troops from China, then the national contradiction will become a secondary contradiction, the class contradiction will become the main contradiction in Chinese society, and the civil war will break out again.

Besides, Chen Feng's goal is not only a Japanese, but he also has to deal with the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and Portugal, although these predators are in a mess in Europe, but if there is no Japan, a-stirring stick, in the East to stir up the situation into a pot of porridge, Chen Feng may not have the opportunity to take action against the Soviet Union, Britain and other countries, if he does it forcibly, he can only make himself the target of the United States and Britain and other countries to vent their anger.

Therefore, it is necessary to keep the Japanese, and only by keeping them can the situation in the entire world be chaotic, and Chen Feng will have the opportunity to complete his task.

Therefore, although the Eighth Theater had achieved an all-round superiority in the operation against the North China Front, Chen Feng never took action to wipe out the North China Front.

The North China Front Army cannot move does not mean that all the Japanese troops cannot move, the Kwantung Army is a good opponent, Chen Feng has been busy with the expansion of the army and the construction of the defense area, so he is unwilling to fight with the Kwantung Army before the wings are full, and now the strength of the Eighth Theater has exceeded 1.5 million, and the defense industry of Saibei Province is enough to support the combat consumption of this army, therefore, Chen Feng believes that the time is ripe to start against the Kwantung Army.

When Chen Feng formulated the Great Northeast Strategy, he divided the entire plan into three steps, the first step was to advance into the Suidong Prairie, Chen Bing Suidong, and then make other plans. Therefore, the next time is to work hard to achieve this combat goal!

On 25 February, Chen Feng ordered the establishment of the Suidong Military Region and the Mengbei Military Region; with the continuous expansion of the territory, the establishment of the group army level was no longer enough to control the overall situation, so it was necessary to form a larger-scale strategic group, and the military region became Chen Feng's first choice.

The defense areas of the Suidong Military Region mainly include the Xilin Gol League, Chifeng, Tongliao, and Xing'an League, with Commander Andrei, Deputy Commander Hu Tiesheng, and Chief of Staff Li Jianhua, and under its jurisdiction the 1st and 2nd Infantry Divisions, the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division, the 4th and 5th Divisions, the Armored Brigade, the Artillery Brigade, the Engineer Brigade, the Military Region Guard Brigade, and the Sharp Blade Special Operations Brigade, with a total strength of 113,000 troops.

The main defense areas of the Northern Mongolian Military Region include Ulaanbaatar, Zongmod, Dongfang City, Saiyin Shanda, and Siwurt, with Commander Zhang Jingjun, Deputy Commander Choibalshan, and Chief of Staff Li Yisheng, under its jurisdiction the 1st and 2nd Infantry Divisions, the 6th Mechanized Infantry Division, the 6th and 7th Divisions, the Armored Brigade, the Artillery Brigade, the Engineer Brigade, the Military Region Guard Brigade, and the Iron Fist Special Operations Brigade. In order to strengthen the monitoring of the Suidong area, Chen Feng specially incorporated the Theater Guard Division, the First Combat Vehicle Division, the First Air Defense Division, and the First Army Aviation Brigade into the Northern Mongolian Military Region.

The purpose of the formation of these two military regions was to seize the eastern steppe, and the two military regions, one in the south and the other in the north, firmly sandwiched the Hulunbuir grassland controlled by the Japanese army and the eastern steppe in the middle, so that they could deal the most tragic blow to the Japanese army at every opportunity.

In the next few days, the frequent movement of troops in the Eighth Theater caused a period of tension among the Japanese North China Front and the Kwantung Army, and with the transfer of a large number of new troops to the Kwantung Army and North China, the Japanese army's fear of Chen Feng's troops had dropped a lot, but because the country had already decided to take action against the United States and Britain and other countries, neither the Kwantung Army nor the Japanese army base camp wanted to fight Chen Feng's troops at this juncture.

However, what made them happy was that although Chen Feng's troops were frequently mobilized, they were constantly shrinking their forces in North China, and it seemed that they had no intention of attacking.

Seeing that Chen Feng's headquarters had no intention of attacking the North China Front, Okamura Ningji decisively bought his headquarters to continue the second sweep of eastern Hebei, southern Lunan, and western Luxi, and at the same time adopted a policy of "encroachment" and blockade in the anti-Japanese base areas. That is, through such brutal means as digging ditches, building walls, opening rivers, building roads, building blockhouses, and creating no-man's land, they attempted to sever the ties between the base areas and the enemy-occupied areas, between the base areas, and between the base areas and the plains.

Okamura has his own theory of "encroachment" warfare, he is a China expert, familiar with China's human geography, he believes that in ancient times, China's rulers surrounded the city wall as a protection measure against enemy invasion, and built the Great Wall between China mainland and Manchuria and Mongolia.

It is another matter how much the Great Wall will defend against foreign invasions, but it is a symbol of protection for the Chinese mainland and its people. At a time when the people are fighting for the people with the resistance forces in China, the people under the protection of the Imperial Japanese Army are surrounded by such a separation line and drawn a boundary to protect them, which not only ensures the stability of the residents, but also has a great effect on encouraging the people to move closer to us. The construction of appropriate separating ditches or small forts at the junction of quasi-security and non-security areas was an effective way to deter the invasion of the Shina army, as it was widely used by Jiokamura Ninji in the Japanese-occupied areas.

Leaving aside whether Okamura Ninji's tactics can succeed for the time being, this passage alone shows Okamura's old devil's understanding of China and Chinese culture, and he does not fight hard against the Chinese and China's anti-Japanese armed forces like other senior Japanese officers, and his muscles are to be shown, but his head must also be turned, and he is rigid and soft, which shows the difficulty of this person. (To be continued......)