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Text Chapter 530: Bow your head and admit defeat

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    After listening to Lieutenant General Iimura Rang's suggestion, Umezu Yoshijiro took a breath of cold air.  ¡¾.Most of those secret warehouses have just started to be built or have just been completed, and the materials stored in them have only just begun.  In addition to a small amount of ammunition and spare light equipment, there are some uniforms.  Even if they were all thrown away, there would be no regrets.

    ??????????????????? Most of these combat readiness warehouses are built in the mountains, and their locations are hidden and extremely confidential to the outside world.  Except for the construction workers who will never go out, let alone the Manchus, ordinary Koreans and even the middle and lower-level officers of the Kwantung Army do not know the exact location.  Even if they give up temporarily, it doesn't matter, because no one can find them except with a detailed map.

    As for killing the tens of thousands of laborers recruited to build these secret fortifications, it would not be any difficult for the Kwantung Army.  Anyway, even if there is no threat from this anti-Manchu armed force, after the fortress group and secret fortification group are completed, these workers must be eliminated in order to keep it secret.  For the Kwantung Army, the best way to keep secrets is to kill people.

    But he was a little worried about giving up the Shengshan fortress group that the Kwantung Army had just spent a lot of money to build.  The Shengshan Fortress Group is not a simple fortress group. It is actually a fortress group built by the Japanese army from Farabie to Hormozin, covering almost the entire front of the Heihe River and winding for more than 100 kilometers.  Among them, there are as many as seventeen permanent fortification groups alone.

    The Shengshan Fortress Group is just the largest one among them, and it is also the code name for the entire Heihe Fortress Group on the Kwantung Army map.  The so-called Katsuyama Fortress Group, in the Japanese base camp, was actually called the Farabie Border Fortification Zone and the Hormozin Fortress Group.

    Except for the Hormozin and Shengshan fortress groups, the construction of these fortress groups has been completed, and the required artillery has been put in place. Now the main task is to expand the original fortifications.  The construction of the Farabie Fortress Group and several other frontal fortress groups, as well as the Sunwu Thermal Power Plant, just started last year.

    These fortress groups were built by the Kwantung Army at a huge expense. Last year alone, the Kwantung Army allocated tens of millions of yen for them.  These fortifications, which cost a huge amount of money to build, were all abandoned without firing a single shot. Even Umezu Yoshijiro, who had always been proud of his decisive killing, couldn't help but hesitate.

    Not only the fortress, but also a field arsenal built by the Japanese army in the entire northern Manchuria, second only to Harbin.  There is also a very large chemical ammunition warehouse that stores one-fifth of the entire chemical weapons of the Kwantung Army.  In addition, due to the so-called border defense and secret military industry needs in the entire Sun Wu territory, there are now more than 250,000 Japanese and Koreans.

    Naturally, Umezu Yoshijiro would not care about the lives of more than 20,000 Koreans.  Even if they cannot be evacuated, these people will not survive.  But he could not ignore the more than 240,000 authentic Japanese people currently concentrated in Sun Wu.  If all these nationals are thrown away, no one in the base camp, not even the emperor, will be able to spare him.

    Seeing the expression on Umezu Meijiro¡¯s face that flickered in and out after hearing what he said, Iimura R¨­, who has been his partner for more than a year, naturally knew what he was thinking.  It just doesn't matter to Iimura Rang whether the fortresses in Heihe are lost or not.  But how to evacuate the more than 200,000 foreign residents, Iimura Rang has no idea.

    If the First Division is lost, what¡¯s the use of retaining the fortress groups in Heihe?  Can a fortress group without anyone defending it still be called a fortress group?  In Rang Iimura's view, abandoning these fortress groups is just a waste of money.  Compared with the 30,000 people in the First Division and the attached Border Guards, this money is not worth mentioning.  But he also had a headache for the more than 200,000 imperial immigrants.

    In the absence of railways, more than 240,000 people relied only on wooden boats, a few patrol boats of the Border Guard, and even temporary wooden rafts.  It is not that simple to evacuate them all in a short time.  What's more, most of these more than 200,000 people are civilians who have not received any military training.

    ¡°But if we really want to leave these more than 200,000 foreigners alone now, not to mention Iimura Rang and even Umezu Yoshijiro cannot make this determination.  But if they were to carry an extra-large baggage like these more than 200,000 overseas Chinese, then the First Division might as well just resist on the spot.

    "Thanks to the more than 200,000 overseas Chinese, we can always piece together a force of 50,000 to 60,000.  If it does not involve the issue of feeding the First Division, which has been cut off from its retreat, Iimura Rang would not want to give up Sun Wu, the fortress group that the Kwantung Army has worked hard for many years.  He did not believe that with the temporary armed immigrants, the opponent would still have the ability to take down Sun Wu in a short time based on the current situation.

    " Seventy-eight thousand people, even if it is seventy-eight thousand pigs, they probably don't have such a good appetite.  Although the Kwantung Army cannot allocate heavy weapons to these temporarily armed immigrants, it can allocate them to them based on the current production capacity of the Shenyang Arsenal and the inventory in southern Manchuria.There are enough small arms on the ground and there is no problem.

    And although these people have no time to train, if they don't fight in the field, there is no problem if they just fire guns inside the fortifications.  And among the more than 200,000 people, there are also many retired Japanese soldiers.  But without food, not to mention the temporarily armed immigrants, even the First Division may not be able to hold on for long.  Even hunger would kill these people.

    Although there are food reserves in Heihe that can satisfy 30,000 combat troops for a year, if these food reserves are added to the average of 240,000 troops, they may not be able to last even one month.  Once the food reserves are exhausted, there is only death waiting for these people.

    Umezu Yoshijiro, who had been persuaded by Iimura Jo, had actually made up his mind to retreat, but now how Sun Wu and the more than 200,000 Japanese in the entire Heihe Province should retreat has become the most troublesome problem for the two of them.  These Japanese were not laborers. If the situation was bad, they would find a ravine and set up machine guns to kill them directly.

    ¡°These are living people of the Japanese Empire. If the war situation is not favorable and the Kwantung Army leaves them alone, I am afraid that the only thing waiting for me and the commander is a military court.  Today's Japan is not that crazy, and it easily destroys the whole nation.

    In fact, both of them understand that the best way to evacuate these compatriots under the current situation is to use the First Division to defend the perimeter, especially protect the airport, and organize the airlift of the people.  After all non-combatants were evacuated, the First Division moved up the river and evacuated by water.

    But both of them also knew that according to the current number of transport aircraft of the Kwantung Army, even if all the bombers that could serve as transport aircraft were counted together, they would not be able to transport more than 200,000 people in a short period of time.  Not to mention that the current opponents also have fighter jets that can shoot down transport aircraft at any time.

    Umezu Yoshijiro, who thought about it but couldn't come up with a good idea, gritted his teeth and said: "Iimura-kun, these more than 200,000 Japanese are the emperor's subjects. If we leave them, the emperor will not spare us, and neither will the base camp."  If it doesn¡¯t happen to us, we may not even have the chance to have a caesarean section.¡±

    "In this way, all the aircraft that the Kwantung Army can currently gather that can carry personnel will be gathered to first transport some of the family members of officers, senior officials, military experts and some precious materials. Especially the five and a half tons produced by Heihe last year and the first half of this year  All the gold must be transported back to Xinjing in quantities of one or two."

    "The main force of the First Division carried all the Japanese in Sunwu. After blowing up the arsenal, they all shrank to the line from the Hormojin Fortress Group to Sunwu County, abandoning the Aihui Fortress Group in the west. At the same time, transport planes were used to airlift some weapons.  In addition to the more than 10,000 pieces of light weapons stored in the First Division, all the young and middle-aged men among the more than 200,000 Japanese were armed to defend the Sun Wu and Hormojin fortresses. "

    Speaking of this, Umezu Yoshijiro looked at Iimura Sang who wanted to say something after hearing what he said: "Iimura-kun, I'm going to trouble you with the Ninth Division. No matter if it goes according to your plan or mine.  , the offensive of the Ninth Division cannot be stopped. In addition, Chuichi Hata has not yet been transferred, and he has been sent to Qiqihar to command the 51st Division, the Independent Fourth Garrison and the troops in the Manchurian Army's Third Military District.  Fight against the enemies advancing westward."

    "At the same time, the telegram ordered the 24th Division to speed up and not enter the Shuangcheng territory at noon the day after tomorrow. In addition, a regiment of the 57th Division was transferred to the Taolaizhao line by train. To protect the 9th Division and the 24th Division  The division's retreat. In addition, all our anti-aircraft artillery that can be concentrated will be allocated to the Ninth Division to ensure the safety of the Lalin River Bridge. "

    Hearing Umezu Yoshijiro's decision and the non-negotiable tone when saying this decision, Iimura Rang smiled bitterly. He wanted to persuade Umezu Yoshijiro again but heard Umezu Yoshijiro continue: "We still control Mohe and all the Heilongjiang coasts.  The district issued an order to gather them, whether they are civilian boats or fishing boats, or even go up the mountain to cut trees and build rafts. "

    "I don't care even if I steal or rob or use all the bathtubs and cooking pots in their homes. As for whether they are going up or down, I don't want to worry about it. But there is one thing, it must be within forty-eight hours.  Gather me ships that can transport at least two to thirty thousand people at a time."

    "Order the First Division to hold on for seventy-two hours. After covering the evacuation of all Japanese in the territory, completely wipe out the entire Sun Wu from the earth, retreat up the river to Mohe and stand by. As for the direction of Qiqihar  , Just do what you said. But we can¡¯t just hold back their four columns, but we also need to reopen the North-Heilongjiang Railway, even if it¡¯s only for a short time.¡±

    "As long as the Beikoku Railway can be re-opened, we can greatly speed up the retreat of the imperial immigrants in Sun Wu. You tell Lieutenant General Ueno Kanichiro that you will stop this fourth column at all costs. AndUse all the troops in the center to reopen the Beihei Railway for me.  Even if he gives up Qiqihar, even if all his 51st Division is wiped out, he will not hesitate.  "

    Having said this, a fierce look flashed in Umezu Yoshijiro's eyes: "There is also Lieutenant General Namada Juichi. Before you go to the Twin Cities, take a flight to Mudanjiang. Tell Mr. Namada that within twenty-four hours  , I want to see him report the battle situation to me in Qiqihar City."

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