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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 2548: Giving Confidence to Imperial Soldiers

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    A memorial from the Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army, General Yoshijiro Umezu, was so frightening that General Mitsuichi Yoneuchi, the Minister of War, one of the top figures in the Japanese military, was so frightened that he almost peed his pants. His first instinctive reaction was to kill someone.  Silence and let this memorial and messenger disappear completely from this world.

    But a sudden thought made Koichi Mineuchi not immediately order the murder and silence, but remained silent. He believed that Umezu Yoshijiro was not stupid, let alone confused, and could climb to the position of general of the Imperial Army. Which one was a fuel-efficient lamp?  Even this guy prides himself on never getting involved in politics!

    General Minai Hikaru changed his mind and said to the messenger calmly: "This memorial is of great importance. I will carefully consider how to present it to His Majesty the Emperor. In the next few days, you will  Stay in my house safely, don¡¯t show up without my permission, and you are not allowed to contact anyone. Once there is news, I will notify you immediately, remember!¡±

    On someone else's territory, what else could the messenger say? He bowed deeply and said, "I'd like to ask the Mi Cabinet to leave. I also ask you to submit the memorial to His Majesty the Emperor as soon as possible. Commander-in-Chief Umezu needs a reply!"

    Miuchi hid the memorial in the pocket of his clothes, and left with a solemn expression. When he got outside, he waved his hand and called the captain of the guard over, and whispered: "Send more people to watch this person, and do not allow him to leave this room.  No one is allowed to come near this place. If he wants to leave by force, deal with him on the spot without asking me for instructions!"

    The guard captain has a fierce look on his face, and he is the sworn confidant of General Mineuchi.  Of course he knows what to do, let alone similar things.  I have dealt with it countless times, and I am familiar with it. General Miuchi Yoneuchi has no intention of submitting this memorial to His Majesty the Emperor immediately. This is a blockbuster bomb that can only be used to bomb political opponents.  If you blow yourself up, you are asking for trouble.

    But now it seems that the possibility of blowing yourself up is the greatest.  Slow down and take a look at the specific situation of the Manchurian war before deciding whether to submit Umezu Yoshijiro's memorial to His Majesty the Emperor.  Anyway, legato folds the messenger.  It's all in his own hands. In fact, he has no proper way to turn this bomb into a weapon to blow up his political opponents!

    And the messenger of General Umezu Yoshijiro was actually under house arrest. The messenger knew this, but he fell into his hands.  We can only resign ourselves to fate in Fengtian, Northeast China.  He knew what was happening in Tokyo, and his memorial was still in the hands of General Miuchi Miuchi. Therefore, even if he was so anxious that he had no choice but to wait, but the current war situation in Manchuria made it impossible to wait.  .

    "Alas!" General Umezu Yoshijiro sighed in dismay. He put away his troubled thoughts and returned to reality. The Kwantung Army troops in the Western Liaoning Corridor have already begun to take action. According to the report of the frontline commander, so far, it seems that there are still  It did not alarm the Feng Jiwu Corps of the Independent Division on the opposite side. However, it will take time for hundreds of thousands of soldiers to assemble. According to my own estimation, the retreating troops will be assembled in the early morning of tomorrow. The speed is already fast enough!

    As for the Kwantung Army troops in Western Manchuria, General Meijin was still hesitating whether to issue an order to retreat. The reason for hesitation was that if the main forces of the Kwantung Army in western Liaoning and Western Manchuria retreated within the same time, it would be nearly  With a force of one million people and such a large movement, who can guarantee that it will not alarm the independent division troops on the opposite side? At least, General Umezu himself cannot guarantee it.

    Therefore, ordering the Kwantung Army troops in the direction of Western Manchuria to retreat was something that General Umezu had been struggling with. However, the retreat order was issued too late. Once the Kwantung Army troops in the Western Liaoning Corridor evacuated successfully, the Kwantung Army troops in the Western Manchuria area would be alone.  .

    Lieutenant General Matsuda, Chief of General Staff of the Kwantung Army, knocked on the door and entered General Umezu's office. His face also had a deep look of worry, "Commander-in-Chief, the staff has just received orders from the direction of Gaizhou on the Liaodong Peninsula. The Imperial Army  A telegram from the commander of the besieged troops asking for help! According to what they said, the independent division dispatched no less than 150,000 troops and besieged more than 40,000 imperial troops. The battle was very fierce!" He took out a telegram and spoke in a serious tone!  said.

    There are a few words that Chief of Staff Matsuda did not say, "The commander of the besieged troops, Commander of the Third Army, Lieutenant General Ono, said in the telegram that of the more than 40,000 Imperial Army troops, there are now less than 20,000 left.  , is compressed into a small area of ??less than a hundred square kilometers. Without foreign aid, it will not last until tomorrow morning!"

    "Asking for reinforcements?" General Umezu Yoshijiro smiled bitterly, "Matsuda-kun, do we still have troops that can be used as reinforcements?"

    "No, Commander-in-Chief!" Chief of Staff Matsuda answered truthfully.

    "That China devil actually invested more than 150,000 troops for the sake of my more than 40,000 remaining troops. He really spent a lot of money!" General Umezu Yoshijiro muttered to himself, with a bitter taste in his mouth, "Matsuda-kun,  Call Lieutenant General Ono back.?, the headquarters is actively organizing reinforcements, but it will take time. Your department must carry forward the spirit of the Japanese Empire's samurai, fight bravely, stand firm and wait for reinforcements, and persist for more than three days, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements!  "

    "What?" Chief of Staff Matsuda whispered. He immediately guessed General Umezu's intention. He used 40,000 people to hold him back for as long as possible. The independent division had more than 100,000 troops and was the main force of the Kwantung Army in the western direction of Liaoning.  , retreating to Fengtian increases some insurance factors, but isn¡¯t this risky deception?

    Chief of Staff Matsuda felt absolutely uncomfortable about this. He thought about it and said, "Commander-in-Chief, we have no reinforcements at all. There is no need to deceive the imperial soldiers who fought bloody battles. I personally think this is an insult to them! We should tell them  The true situation of the imperial soldiers who fought bloody battles!¡±

    "Baga!" General Umezu Yoshijiro was furious. Chief of Staff Matsuda's words stabbed him in the heart. He scolded him for the first time, "Pedantic! There is no way that the more than 40,000 troops on the Gaizhou battlefield can break through.  Maybe, their final outcome is to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor and the Empire of Japan, and they will all be shattered. Knowing this is the outcome, why don't we give them a glimmer of hope and inspire the Imperial soldiers to fight the enemy risklessly!"

    "Insult! It's ridiculous. Telling them that they have no reinforcements has weakened the morale and fighting spirit of the army. Are they killed one by one by those Chinese soldiers? Those Chinese soldiers will laugh at their corpses. This is what you want to see as the chief of staff.  The result? Their jade fragments are valuable and are for the survival of more imperial soldiers!"

    General Umezu Yoshijiro was panting with anger, his eyes flashing fiercely. It seemed that Chief of Staff Matsuda's words were a great insult to his own character. Chief of Staff Matsuda couldn't help but take a few steps back and dropped his head suddenly.  "Ha Yi! Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, please calm down. It's the staff who are talking nonsense!"

    The ferocious light in General Umezu Yoshijiro's eyes disappeared, but his tone was still cold and he said: "Chief of Staff Matsuda, I don't want to hear similar words again, and convey my order. The Kwantung Army's troops in the Western Manchuria area will be deployed at 6 o'clock tomorrow evening.  After that, they began to evacuate one after another, and the gathering place was Xinjing!¡±

    "The method of retreat is that the troops on the front line will not move for the time being. The troops on the third line and the baggage troops will be the first to evacuate. After that, the troops on the second line will begin to evacuate. Your staff department is responsible for formulating the specific retreat route, and you must warn all troops  Commander, organize a retreat as much as possible without disturbing the independent division troops on the opposite side!"

    Chief of Staff Matsuda recorded the order of General Umezu, and he came to General Umezu to inform him that the Kwantung Army troops in the direction of the Liaoxi Corridor had begun a retreat, and it was very dangerous to leave the Kwantung Army troops in the Western Manchuria area alone.  Well, it was easy to be flanked by both sides. Now, General Umezu finally spat out his words, and he had achieved his goal, even though he had just been scolded.

    There is one more thing that must be reminded of Commander-in-Chief Umezu. Chief of Staff Matsuda said: "Commander-in-Chief, should the Kwantung Army border garrison also shrink across the board? The one facing it is the Independent Division's Outer Mongolia Field Corps, with a strength of  More than 300,000 people were killed, more than 100,000 more than the Imperial Army. Once the Kwantung Army troops in western Liaoning and Western Manchuria begin to retreat, will the border garrison become the next target of the independent division? "

    General Umezu Yoshijiro was struggling in his heart. In the vast Manchuria region, there were many cities that needed to be defended, and troops were needed everywhere. The Kwantung Army's border garrison of more than 200,000 people could be sent to great use. Analyzed from this perspective  , and should also retreat simultaneously to avoid heavy losses.

    However, General Meijin would never dare to let go of the border line in northwestern Manchuria. The more than 300,000 soldiers of the Chinese devil Tang Qiuli would have marched straight in, southward to attack Xinjing, if not blocked by the border guards.  What would it be like if the main force of the Kwantung Army in the Western Liaoning Corridor and the West Manchuria area retreated, and then joined the independent division troops in the Liaodong Peninsula, Amaterasu, with nearly 700,000 independent division troops, blocking all the retreat channels.  s consequence?

    General Umezu knew it all too well, so he made a painful decision, "Chief of Staff Matsuda, the Kwantung Army border garrison cannot retreat, otherwise, the door to the border line in northwest Manchuria will be opened, and the Outer Mongolia Field Corps of the Independent Division will  , 300,000 soldiers will flood into Manchuria. By then, Fengtian, Xinjing and even Harbin will be in crisis! "

    Chief of Staff Matsuda was silent. He understood the considerations of Commander-in-Chief Umezu. The independent division troops in the direction of the Liaodong Peninsula have become a knife inserted into the back of the main force of the Kwantung Army in western Manchuria. Therefore, the independent divisions in Outer Mongolia must not be allowed to attack again.  The field corps has become another knife inserted into the hinterland of Manchuria. The two knives are facing each other from the north to the south. It is a dead end. The main force of the Kwantung Army of more than one million will be forced to fight decisively with the independent division troops in western Manchuria.

    But the capital for a decisive battle is not enough, so the Kwantung Army can only defend the borderThe troops, fighting to the death, were blocking the border area. The more than 200,000 troops were in a position with no retreat. After receiving a series of orders, Chief of Staff Matsuda left with a heavy heart. General Umezu Yoshijiro himself was left.  The mood is equally heavy.

    (To be continued) (To be continued)
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