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The Japanese Kwantung Army got its name from the "Kwantung State" (now Dalian, Jinzhou, and later expanded to the entire Liaodong Peninsula) where it was founded. Became the "pro-son" of the Japanese army. After September 18, in order to wipe out the Anti-Japanese Alliance and guard against the Soviet Union, the Japanese government and military have been doing everything they can to expand the Kwantung Army.
After ten years of vigorous investment, by the beginning of 1942, the Kwantung Army had administered four armies, fourteen infantry divisions, one armored army, one aviation army, nine independent garrison teams, and thirteen border garrison teams. The strength exceeds 700,000, of which there are only seven Class A divisions (standing troops with a designation within 20) that are regarded as the first-class combat strength by the Japanese army (No. 1, No. 8, No. 9, No. 10, No. 11, No. 12, The 14th Division), as well as a large number of Type B divisions and border garrison formed before and after the War of Resistance, were the most powerful strategic army of the Japanese army.
Moreover, the Kwantung Army not only has a huge force, but also has the most sophisticated weapons and equipment among the five major combat groups of the Japanese army. Only its mecha army (tank army, not Gundam troops) and two independent tank regiments have 777 tanks. Together with nearly 200 armored vehicles, the number of tanks and armored vehicles owned by the Kwantung Army accounted for more than half of the Japanese armored forces.
Not only that, the caliber and quantity of artillery owned by the Kwantung Army also ranks first among the five major combat groups. Each division under its jurisdiction is equipped with 36 to 48 division-owned artillery, many of which are heavy guns of 105 mm to 150 mm. In contrast, those divisions of the Chinese Expeditionary Army are simply raised by stepmothers, because the vast majority of their directly subordinate artillery units are equipped with 75 mm caliber mountain artillery and field artillery, like those newly formed "security divisions" "It doesn't even have artillery directly under its jurisdiction, and all of its subordinates are all infantry brigades.
In addition to the strong artillery firepower of the Field Division, the Kwantung Army has also formed a large number of independent artillery units. Among them, the heavy artillery unit alone has 10 150mm heavy howitzer brigades, 5 240mm super heavy howitzers, and 2 280mm artillery units. mm super-heavy howitzer brigade, 2 105 cannon brigades, 3 150 heavy cannon brigades, 8 heavy mortar brigades, 1 heavy mortar brigade, 6 field anti-aircraft gun brigades, 1 field anti-aircraft gun The wing also has a large number of anti-tank artillery units, and the configuration can be called luxurious.
In addition to the ground forces, the Kwantung Army also has a huge air force that accounts for nearly half of the Japanese aviation force. Its second flight group, fifth flight group and 12th flight regiment directly under its jurisdiction have a total of 750 aircraft of various types. Yu frame.
Just because it has such a huge force and a large number of sophisticated technical weapons, the Kwantung Army is also known as the "Flower of the Imperial Army".
However, such a large and sophisticated heavy army group has never been able to appear on the battlefield as a whole, except for sending a small number of troops into the customs to help the Chinese dispatched troops in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, and fought a small-scale Nomenkan battle. , The main force of the Kwantung Army has been staying in the Northeast and the Sino-Soviet border area, used to contain the Soviet Far East troops that number as many as one million and whose technical weapons have even surpassed the entire Japanese army's equipment.
In all fairness, if the Japanese government could continue its madness at Pearl Harbor in 1942, even if it only transferred one-third of the main force of the Kwantung Army to the Chinese border or the Pacific battlefield, there would be only one left for those who were beaten. It would have disastrous effects on a China that has not yet finished mobilizing for war.
Fortunately, however, the Japanese government finally chose to let the Kwantung Army become a strategic general reserve force under the strong pressure of more than one million Soviet Far East troops, and stayed quietly for nearly a year on the Sino-Soviet border, which had no strategic significance at that time. In two years, until 1943, when the Japanese army suffered successive defeats and suffered heavy losses in the Pacific battlefield, the main force of the Kwantung Army was gradually transferred to the Pacific front, and finally shed its last blood on those tropical islands.
In August 1945, the Kwantung Army appeared in the war as a whole for the first time, but this was also their last battle. It took only ten days for the 1.5 million Soviet Red Army to fight against the elite 700,000 Kwantung Army. Throwing away the helmet and armor, jumping like chickens and dogs, uprooting this flower of the imperial army.
However, after all, this will only happen a few years later. In the middle of 1942, the Kwantung Army, which was in full swing, was still well-deserved as the "strongest combat group in the empire". And the Japanese government, which has once again coveted the vast land of the Far East, has been upgraded to the "General Army".
General Umezu Yoshijiro, then commander of the Kwantung Army, ushered in the most glorious moment in his life-His Majesty the Emperor will personally read out his order to become the first commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army.
Dear officials, don¡¯t underestimate this general word. In the strict system of the Japanese army, this word is quite different. This marks that the Kwantung Army will gain the same power as China in terms of supplies and speech.? The same treatment as dispatched troops, and Umezu Yoshijiro will also be on the same level as Hata Toshi, becoming the second most powerful figure in the Japanese Army except for Lu Xiang. To put it bluntly, except for a few people such as Tojo Hideki and Hata Toshiroku, including Neiji Okamura, who is also a general, they should bow and say hello to him when they see him in the future.
However, on the day of accepting the appointment, Umezu Yoshijiro was very unhappy, because he should have been congratulated by thousands of people, but he was robbed of the limelight by Neiji Okamura. He lobbied the emperor and Tojo Hideki and other bigwigs about his plan to mobilize heavy troops to wipe out the communist army, and advocated that those Communist militias would become the biggest enemy of the empire.
Yes, Okamura Ningji was doing his duty as a general of the empire, like using this opportunity to persuade the emperor to completely wipe out the Eighth Route Army, but in the end he still failed.
After listening to his statement, His Majesty the Emperor rejected his request without even thinking: "The strategy of the empire cannot be changed. In order to ensure the security of the homeland and our newly acquired territories in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, we should first concentrate our efforts and completely Defeated the Americans, so the Japanese war should be postponed. As for the Japanese Communist Army, it is a disease of ringworm and scabies, which is not worth mentioning!'
Well, this sentence completely cut off Neiji Okamura's hope, but he immediately made another request: "Your Majesty, I have seized a batch of new weapons used by the communist army before, and one of them can The rifles and direct-firing guns developed by China are very powerful, and the craftsmanship is not complicated. I asked military experts, and they said that they can be completely imitated, and with the industrial strength of the empire, mass production can be achieved within half a year."
As soon as Okamura's voice fell, Haishi Shimoda Shigetaro called: "Your Majesty, our resources are already very tight. I think these limited resources should be used to build warships and aircraft to retake the Pacific Ocean." command of the air and sea."
The Emperor hesitated for a moment, then called Hideki Tojo to ask a few words in a low voice, and then said, "Shimada-kun said it makes sense. We should give priority to building warships and aircraft to compete with the Americans for air and sea supremacy. As for Okamura Your request I think the weapons are enough now, after all, our heroic imperial warriors used these weapons to defeat the enemy before! '
Shintaro Shimada hurriedly bowed to the emperor, and at the same time glanced proudly at Ningji Okamura. The meaning was obvious: Damn the army red deer, don't even try to grab the navy's resources! (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com