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Text Chapter 790 The Prisoner¡¯s Dilemma

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    Since last year's battle ended in a disastrous defeat for the Kwantung Army and the railway linking Hailar Binzhou was cut off, the supply of the 23rd Division and the 8th Border Guard Corps has fallen into a situation where it is worse than a month. When the railway line, which is the main means of transportation, is interrupted  Under the circumstances, the Kwantung Army, which could only rely on roads for supplies, always lacked a sufficient number of trucks.

    This disadvantage has been exposed as early as the Battle of Nomenhan. However, domestic production capacity is limited, and new divisions are constantly being formed, so that the Kwantung Army's shortage of trucks has not been fundamentally solved.  Changes, especially when the Kwantung Army lost almost two-thirds of its trucks in last year's battle, it was simply unable to devote a sufficient number of trucks to ensure the supply of the 23rd Division.

    The road supply line from Aershan to Hailar was often interrupted by anti-Japanese air raids. The limited number of transport trucks were often destroyed in convoys halfway. The limited supplies sent to Hailar were not enough for a complete division plus  For the large number of attached troops, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a drop in the bucket.

    If it could meet two-thirds or even half of the normal consumption of the 23rd Division, Kanji Nishihara and the former division commander would have to burn incense, but even this standard has never been reached, and it has been  As the anti-alliance air strikes continued to intensify, by the end of last month, all supplies were completely cut off.

    Especially for the gasoline used by the tank troops, even the warehouse was completely depleted. The original food as a strategic food reserve was not well supplied in the rear. In order to ensure the daily needs of a large number of Japanese and puppet troops in the entire Hung Yen North Province, as well as the Japanese  Under the daily consumption of expatriates, it has already bottomed out.

    The daily food rations for the troops of the 23rd Division have been reduced to two-thirds of the Army's standard, and can even barely maintain half. If they continue to be consumed in Hailar, the entire North Hung Yen Province will be full of food in a few days.  The puppet troops and all Japanese overseas Chinese will be completely deprived of food.

    In fact, this time the 23rd Division retreated from Hailar, the food they carried at all times was not only part of the original strategic reserves, but also a considerable part of the food they had snatched from the local people during the massacre.  They don't eat any of them. In their eyes, cornmeal can only be used as feed, and the rest are biscuits in strategic reserves.

    As for the rice balls made of mixed rice and barley, which are the favorite foods of army soldiers, they have long been out of the question. Although the Japanese army has always been more tolerant of coarse food, their daily staple food is also made of rice, white flour and other fine grains.  It is mainly mixed with a small amount of barley, and whether it can be full and what kind of food is completely different.

    Facing the somewhat gloomy Nishihara Kanji, Major General Chida Sadao didn't know what to do. On the Aershan front line, the ammunition problem could be effectively solved, but the food problem has become an urgent need. Even fools know that now  There is no food inside, no reinforcements outside, and no necessary fire support.

    Continuing to stay on the Aershan front line, even if there are some fortifications to rely on, is tantamount to courting death. Without food, everything is out of the question. Everything that can be lost along the way is lost, and what cannot be lost is basically lost.  The food was almost there, and there was not enough food when we were in Hylar, not to mention that the original two-day trip was stretched to nearly four days due to the bombing.

    The various squadrons that have gone to the Aershan front line basically have no weapons above the heavy machine gun left, and grenade tubes are only one-third of the original number. The number of light machine guns is relatively complete. Although they don¡¯t carry much ammunition,  There are only one hundred and twenty rounds of basic ammunition carried by each person, but some can be replenished in Aershan.

    Although there are no heavy weapons in the munitions warehouse in Aershan, there is still a considerable amount of light weapons and ammunition in reserve. Even heavy machine guns and 92 infantry cannons can be replenished in Aershan's inventory of weapons. Although  The original establishment quantity cannot be restored, but at least it can be effectively replenished, but the food carried when setting off is basically gone.

    Even if the 23rd Division scrapes three feet of ground in the Aershan area, it probably won't be able to produce enough food for the entire division for two days. This is only possible if the pig and dog food eaten by all the workers is replaced by the imperial army's food.  It was barely scraped together, but even this could not guarantee the supply of all the officers and soldiers of the entire division for three days.

    And these so-called grains such as sorghum rice, acorn noodles, and corn noodles, according to Lieutenant Colonel Higuchi Shiro, the division's military medical director, are not suitable for the Japanese physique at all. After eating them, the Imperial Army soldiers who are accustomed to eating rice and barley  , I am afraid there will be adverse reactions.

    Not to mention that most of these so-called grains are moldy. Even if they are eaten reluctantly, they may cause poisoning of soldiers and cause serious non-combat attrition. In the eyes of the Japanese, they are called Manchurians.  The Northeastern Chinese are not human beings, and the Chinese in Guanhai, whom they call Chinese, are even less human.

    ButThese Japanese people have always cherished their own lives. Although many times, when necessary, they took the lives of ordinary soldiers and low-level officers as little seriously, but at the moment, for the 23rd Division  For the regiment, what should be done most is how to restore the morale and combat effectiveness of the division.

    If we really use this kind of food to distribute to the troops, the result will only make the already low morale even lower. This may be counterproductive, but other than these, where can we find food to feed the twenty-three?  There are more than ten thousand mouths in the division, but it has become the 23rd Division. Of course, it is also the most urgent matter for the Eighth Border Guards, whose fate is connected to him.

    Major General Chida Sadao looked at the map. The situation in front of him made Rao, who was always known to be quick and resourceful, at a loss for a moment. What made Major General Chida Sadao even more worried was that once the Anti-Japanese Alliance really seized the White Wolf front line,  It was equivalent to grabbing the 23rd Division by the neck and cutting off the 23rd Division's southward retreat route.

    The current situation is an embarrassing dilemma for the 23rd Division and the 8th Border Guard, with no way to defend and no way to retreat. Major General Chida Sadao has only graduated from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School.  It's been a while, but this is the first time I've seen such a complicated situation.

    But after all, he was a staff officer. After all, Major General Chida Sadao had many more evil ideas than Nishihara Kanji. Since going south and east was no longer feasible, Chida Sadao turned his gaze to the west of the map and remained silent for a long time.  Chida Sadao raised his head and made a bold suggestion to Nishihara Kanji: "Your Excellency, the current situation is quite unfavorable to us. Judging from the current situation, we are in a dilemma."

    "War, there is neither food nor reinforcements nor heavy fire support. Standing still and waiting for reinforcements is not a good choice for us now. Although Lieutenant General Kimura Hyoutarou, Chief of Staff, has agreed to use all means to supplement us.  Supplies, but under the attack of the Anti-Alliance ground and air firepower, even if these supplies can be transported in the shortest time, how many of them will be in our hands. "

    "Leaving, I'm afraid, is not a good choice. Now that the forward troops of the Anti-Japanese Alliance have appeared on the White Wolf line in the south, their main force should not be far away, and the number of enemy troops rushing towards us  We don¡¯t have any information about how many there are and what their equipment is.¡±

    "Maybe, an ambush is waiting for us on our southward retreat route. As a soldier of the Japanese Empire, I have nothing to fear, but if the problem of supplies cannot be solved, we will have no way to fight this war.  Fight, we can't let our soldiers go hungry and fight against a well-equipped force."

    "Division Commander, in the face of the current situation, I have a suggestion. You see, most of the Mongolian troops stationed opposite the Aershan have been transferred and have entered the hinterland of North Xing'an Province. In the Mongolian territory opposite the Aershan, the current strength of the troops is abnormal.  The Bayinbur Land just opposite the Aershan is one of the strategic supply points of the so-called Eastern Group of Soviet-Mongolian Allied Forces.¡±

    "In order to fight the Kwantung Army, the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces have stored a large amount of ammunition and food there. Although the Russian ammunition does not matter, the food there is what we urgently need. If we take advantage of the Mongolian army's lack of strength and head west,  After capturing the front line of Bayinbur Land and obtaining strategic supplies, without making any stops, we immediately turn around and return to Manchuria. The possibility of success is still very high.¡±

    "Although the Soviet army has stationed an armored group on the front line of Qiuba Mountain, according to our intelligence, most of its troops have been transferred westward. The remaining troops will definitely not pose much of a threat to us. Waiting for them to come from  When troops from other places arrived, we would have already withdrawn into Manchuria."

    "And for us, in addition to food and possible enemy ambush threats on the southward retreat route, the biggest threat is the aviation force of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. If we pass through Mongolia, we can not only obtain supplies from the Mongolian army to supplement our own, but also  It can avoid falling into the siege of the Anti-Alliance.¡±

    "The most important thing is that their aviation force, which poses the greatest threat to us, has also lost its role. Whether they are ground troops or aviation units, they absolutely dare not enter Mongolia to pursue us, because as a force also supported by Soviet Russia, they have no  The one who had the guts to attack the tiger¡¯s head.¡±

    "Outer Mongolia is now under the jurisdiction of Soviet Russia. Due to the fact that the Mongols were under the jurisdiction of the Manchu Qing government in China for hundreds of years, Soviet Russia's precautions against the Chinese people are far superior to the Kwantung Army. As the Soviet Union single-handedly supported  At least they can¡¯t afford to anger Moscow yet.¡±

    ¡°Your Excellency, Division Commander, during the battle in 2006, the remnants of the 12th Division also withdrew to North Korea via Soviet Russia, thus avoiding heavy losses. As for later, Soviet Russia only proposed resistance.That's all, but for the Kwantung Army, it ensured a well-trained force. The situation in Europe is now only worse than last year, and Soviet Russia will not put most of its energy on the Eastern Front.  "

    "The most fundamental thing is that we are just taking advantage of the road this time to raise some military supplies. We are not trying to occupy Mongolia. As long as we don't stay in Mongolia for too long, we can make a quick victory. I think the Russians who no longer have the energy to go east are  "I won't mind it too much. The Russians will not go into full-scale war with the empire in this situation."
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