Yang Zhen's words made the chairman nod slightly, but after pondering for a long time, the chairman said: "You are very right, the battle of South Manchurian is not only to settle military accounts, but also to calculate political accounts and economic accounts. In your opinion, if you can't fight this year, or if you can't launch a campaign to recover South Manchuria, then is it more appropriate to liberate South Manchuria? ”

"You are the supreme military commander of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, so I ask you today, not others. This time, the central authorities have made up their minds on the strategy of the northeast direction, and your opinion is very important. So I didn't ask anyone else to come over today, just to hear your full opinion on this matter. ”

"Comrade Yang Zhen, I want to listen to all your views. You have to pour the beans into a bamboo tube and pour out all the thoughts in your heart. Your opinion is very important to the central authorities' decision on the northeast side, and you should not have any scruples and say whatever you want. ”

After the chairman's words, Yang Zhen muttered for a long time before saying: "Chairman, if you follow my thinking, at least Nanman can't fight this year." Because the time has not yet come for a strategic general decisive battle with the Kwantung Army. Now that I am determined to fight, it is not that I cannot fight, but the consequences will be difficult to predict. ”

"Although the Japanese army has suffered successive defeats in the Pacific theater, the strength of its army and navy still exists, and it has not yet completely declined. The offensive of the Americans in the fourth and third was mainly concentrated in the southwest Pacific. And mainly in the air and sea confrontation, the Japanese army in the Pacific Ocean did not suffer fatal losses. ”

And even if the Japanese have suffered successive defeats now, the decline of the whole war situation is already obvious. But at present, the entire battlefield is still quite far away from the core area of the Japanese and even the mainland. The battle for the Mariana Islands that the Americans are now waging is at best hitting the door of the Japanese. ”

In other words, although the Japanese suffered successive defeats on the battlefield, the U.S. military has not yet been able to directly threaten the entire core area of Japanese rule. Therefore, the Kwantung Army, under the full complement of the Japanese army's base camp and without much consideration for the time being, still maintains a fairly strong strength. ”

"When needed, the support of the North Korean army behind it is far more powerful than the actual strength on paper. South Manchurian and North Korea are not only connected by mountains and rivers, but also have convenient railway lines. Once the form is needed, the North Korean army can complete the maneuver in a short time at any time. ”

"The Korean Army and the Kwantung Army have always been in a relationship of lip and tooth. Behind every action of the Kwantung Army, there is the shadow of the North Korean army. From the September 18 Incident to the Zhang Gufeng and Normenhan Incidents, there were small actions of the North Korean army behind them. South Manchurian industry is important for our future development at the moment, but it is even more important for Japan to sustain the war. If we had a general decisive battle with the Kwantung Army, the Korean Army would be involved, whether the Japanese base camp wanted it or not. ”

"The reason why the Japanese dared to swallow the elephant and brazenly launched a full-scale war of aggression against China as a small country relied on the large amount of industry and resources obtained after the September 18 Incident occupied Northeast China. Just one Mukden Arsenal almost paid most of the weapons needed by the Japanese army to invade China, as well as most of the ammunition. ”

It was also by relying on the industry of South Manchuria that the Japanese greatly reduced the supply pressure on their homeland to the Japanese army invading China. Coupled with the grain and mineral resources in the northeast, Japan, which is narrow in land and poor in people, has the ability to fight a large-scale war and maintain the confidence of this war. There is no need to be like the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, which almost did not defeat the country of Japan. ”

It can be said that without the September 18 Incident of that year, there would not have been a full-scale invasion of China by the Japanese army later. It was precisely by relying on the cheap resources plundered from the Northeast and the strong industrial base in the Northeast that the Japanese had the confidence to invade China in an all-out way. So I think that South Manchurian is important for our future development, and it is even more important for the Japanese to maintain the current war situation. ”

"Without Fushun and Fuxin in Northeast China, it seems that there is no coal for free. Without Anshan and Benxi Lake, the total production of steel accounted for 30% of the total Japanese production. Without the support of the chemical and metallurgical industries in Shenyang and Fushun, especially the artificial oil support in Fushun, the Japanese, who lacked resources, would not have been able to fight this war at all. ”

"The war has been going on for such a long time, and the Japanese economy, which is already very weak, has not finally collapsed, and it can still hold on. The main thing is to rely on the resources that seem to be in vain in the northeast, and give them a steady stream of blood transfusions. As long as the situation of the war does not deteriorate to the point of irreparability, then the Japanese army will not weaken the strength of the Kwantung Army, which is the basis for them to be able to fight the war. ”

"We don't care whether the Tanaka Soji is true or not, but there is one thing that the Japanese are right, Tohoku is indeed the lifeline of the Japanese to wage war. Without the resources of the Northeast, the Japanese could not afford to fight a long-term war of attrition. It is precisely because the Northeast, especially South Manchuria, is so important to Japan's entire strategic landscape. Once South Manchuria enters the general decisive battle, the North Korean army will definitely make a move. ”

"At the moment, although other battlefields have suffered setbacks one after another, it is the most important strategic area. The strength of the South Manchurian Kwantung Army has not been significantly weakened, and it can even be called the strongest of all the strategic directions of the Japanese army in terms of heavy weapons. This is what worries me the most about launching the South Manchurian War. ”

"Fight, we won't have any fear. But if all the pots and jars in Nanman are smashed, it will have too much impact on our future development. At present, although the Kwantung Army has been compressed to a corner of South Manchuria, on the whole, its strength density has greatly increased with the shrinking of its territory. ”

"In this battle, while our army launched an offensive in North China, in order to contain the Kwantung Army and unable to reinforce the North China battlefield, our army also launched an offensive in the Northeast Battlefield. However, after a month and a half of hard fighting, although hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army were held back and unable to move south, the offensive did not make much progress. ”

"A large part of the reason for this situation is, of course, the reason for the insufficient investment of our army. However, the greater reason for this is that the combat effectiveness and strength of the Kwantung Army have not decreased significantly. Even because of the shrinking of the control area, the density of troops has been greatly strengthened. Under such circumstances, our army forcibly attacked South Manchuria, and with the full reinforcement of the Korean army, I am afraid that this progress will not be too fast. ”

"The Japanese are a crazy people, and they can do anything. If they are dying and struggling, with the mentality that I am going to perish, but you don't want to get it, and carry out great destruction of South Manchurian industry, then our losses will be great. ”

"At present, the Americans in the Pacific theater have begun to counterattack on all fronts. In March this year, the US military began to fight for the Mariana Islands in the Pacific theater. The Mariana Islands are choking the throat of the Central Pacific shipping routes, and the loss of the Mariana Islands will not only cut off all shipping routes in the South Pacific, but even Taiwan and the Philippines will be within the combat range of US bombers. ”

Once the Mariana Islands line is broken through by the U.S. military, it is equivalent to the U.S. military opening the door to the Japanese mainland, so it is praised by the Japanese army as a breakwater in the Pacific Ocean. Because the strategic position of the Mariana Islands is crucial, the Japanese army is bound to invest heavily in the competition for living forces. ”

"My idea is to wait until the U.S. military is in the Pacific theater, after the ongoing battle for the Mariana Islands is over, and then I will make the next step depending on the outcome of the battlefield. If the Americans win, the Japanese, whose door to absolute defense is open, will inevitably increase their defenses on the mainland, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Okinawa. ”

"At that time, no matter how important the South Manchurian Industrial Zone is to Japan, but there will never be a situation where Japan itself is important, the Japanese army will be transferred whether it wants to or not, or some of the elites who are currently concentrated in the Kwantung Army, or transferred to the mainland, or to Taiwan, Okinawa and even the Philippines, and even to the Ogasawara Islands and the Iwo Jima Islands, etc., Japan's so-called absolute defense circle will be deployed."

"Chairman, my opinion is that after the battle of the Mariana Islands that the Americans are currently underway, the decision will be made on whether to seize South Manchuria. But at the moment, even for the whole four or four years, I don't agree with the fight for South Manchuria. I'm not avoiding the heavy, but I'm really hitting Nanman with some rat bogeys. ”

"We are not Soviets, we have a strong industrial base. Even if some of them are broken, there is still a strong foundation in their hands. It can be said that Nanman industry is very important to our future development. And the dying madness of the Japanese is also far from being comparable to that of the Germans. If South Manchu is destroyed, it will be too difficult to rebuild. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen smiled slightly bitterly: "Chairman, the most important thing is this battle, although we have achieved great results. But the losses of the troops were too great, and they were somewhat demoralized. The troops participating in the Northeast Battlefield have generally lost three to four percent of their personnel, and the casualties are still light. ”

"At present, 60 percent of the divisions participating in the North China Battlefield have more than 60 percent of the number of divisions, and more than half of them are generally killed or wounded. The division with the heaviest casualties was only 30 percent of its strength after the wounded. The cadres below the battalion level in each division were generally changed once, and some divisions were even changed twice. ”

"In addition to the heavy casualties of the infantry, the losses of heavy equipment were also significant. The tank units invested in the North China Battlefield in this battle, not counting the reserves that were replenished and transferred during the operation, the whole army lost more than 700 tanks. The ammunition hoarded before the war consumed nearly ninety percent. ”

"In the later stage of this battle, it was mainly the participating troops on the battlefield in North China who insisted on fighting completely by relying on their tenacious will to fight and their consistent tenacity. After completing the encirclement and annihilation of the 100 divisions, whether in terms of the number of casualties in the troops, or in terms of the consumption and reserves of materials, we can no longer fight. ”

"The final full-scale retreat of the Japanese army was not so much a complete defeat as it was a scare away by my two tank clusters. If Okamura Ninji and Uchiyama Eitaro can be transferred to two or three divisions to participate in the battle, they will hold out even for seven days. I'm afraid who will die in this battle, it's really hard to say. ”

"The troops of the Anti-United Nations in this battle are solid and wounded. Chairman, without at least half a year's rest, we really don't have the ability to launch such a large-scale operation in this battle in a short period of time. However, with a hard bone like South Manchuria, the investment of troops is small, and it is difficult to achieve the combat results we want. ”

Yang Zhen's words fell, and the chairman was also slightly taken aback. The number of casualties in the battle of the Anti-Japanese Federation has not yet been reported, and although he has been mentally prepared, the chairman still did not expect that the losses in this battle of the Anti-Japanese Federation will be so large. The wounds and bones of this big war, according to the human resources they control at the moment, they don't know when they will be able to replenish it.

Since the ground connection with the Guannai was opened, after the two successive battles of the Anti-Japanese Federation, it was only by relying on the blood transfusion of the troops in the Guannai that they could barely recover their vitality. At the end of each battle, Yang Zhen asked the troops in the Guannai again and again to resist the reserve forces of the joint forces, and the chairman still remembers it vividly.

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