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Text Chapter 345 General Umezu¡¯s Bet

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    Just when Yang Zhen seized this rare rest time to adjust his extremely exhausted body, he had moved to the Kwantung Army headquarters on Siping Street. Due to the unsmooth battle situation, the Kwantung Army was under great pressure from the base camp.  The commander of the army, General Yoshijiro Umezu, also had a bitter look on his face when facing Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe of the General Staff Headquarters and Major General Shinichi Tanaka, chief of operations of the headquarters, who came from Tokyo to supervise the battle.

    This time, Umezu Yoshijiro also made careful preparations for the operational plan of luring the enemy deep into the country, using improvised positions and solid defenses to gradually consume the effective forces of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and then concentrating on the second-line elite troops to counterattack across the board.  It is too in line with the usual Japanese character, but in Umezu Yoshijiro's opinion, it is undoubtedly the best choice.

    In his opinion, his wings have been fully developed. At present, there are the United States and the Soviet Union supporting the Resistance Alliance either overtly or covertly. Coupled with their own fierce fighting power, fighting to the death is not a good solution to the problem. Last year  Although he found Juichi Namada as his scapegoat in the autumn battle and did not let himself follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, it was undoubtedly a very profound lesson for him.

    As a rare scholar-like commander among the Japanese army, Umezu Yoshijiro has always been very clear-headed. At least he does not have a body temperature of 60 degrees like his colleagues. As the supreme commander of the largest strategic group of the Japanese army,  Umezu Yoshijiro still has an objective evaluation of the current strength of the two armies.

    Especially now that the whole of Japan is in a very delicate situation, Umezu Yoshijiro is not prepared to take the initiative to fight an offensive war in accordance with the Japanese army's consistent strategic thinking that offense is the best defense. In his opinion, if Kanto  Too much bloodshed this time will affect the fate of the Japanese Empire.

    Therefore, after careful consideration, he chose to use the strong defense line built by the Kwantung Army on the south bank of the Songhua River since last autumn to weaken the opponent's effective strength as much as possible, and then mobilize subsequent troops to carry out a comprehensive counterattack, thus achieving the goal of solving Manchuria in one fell swoop  The purpose of the current predicament is that, in his view, the Anti-Japanese Alliance's lack of sustained combat capability is its greatest weakness.

    If its equipment and soldiers suffer heavy casualties, and new reinforcements are mobilized to encircle and annihilate them, and completely wipe out one or more of their attacking forces, the current battle situation will be changed in the shortest time. If it is judged  If we were more optimistic, reversing the entire Northeast War situation would not be a big problem.

    For the current Kwantung Army, this kind of preemptive strike is undoubtedly the best way to wait for work and take all means to weaken their continuous combat capabilities. This is the case for Umezu Yoshijiro and Yoshimoto Sadichi, the two giants of the Kwantung Army who have been fighting for a long time.  A tacit understanding had been reached after the 23rd Division suffered heavy losses half a year ago.

    For Umezu Yoshijiro, striking after the enemy does not necessarily mean that he will be controlled by others. He believes that no matter how strong the Anti-Japanese Alliance is and how sophisticated its weapons and equipment are, there is still a certain gap between the foundation and the Japanese army, especially the mobility of the troops, and the Japanese army is even worse.  Far more than the Anti-League.

    Although the Kwantung Army lost the entire north of the Songhua River, most of the railway lines were still in the hands of the Kwantung Army. Even if they were bombed by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, they could still rely on the strong national power behind them and the capabilities of each railway unit.  It can be fixed in a short time.

    Umezu Yoshijiro has always believed that in modern warfare, the number of troops and equipment are not absolute factors. Mobility at critical moments and the potential for sustainable warfare are the keys to victory. In this regard, Japan is far ahead.  As for the Anti-Japanese League, what is being fought in modern wars is national strength. In this regard, let alone the current Anti-Japanese League, even their Chongqing National Government cannot compare with Japan.

    Although it is a bit risky to use two to three divisions as bait to consume the effective strength of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the bet is a bit big, and the bait is almost eaten up. The most important thing is that the Kwantung Army Intelligence Department has no  It was learned that the armored forces of the Anti-Japanese Alliance had suddenly expanded several times. This would undoubtedly cost the Kwantung Army, which lacked effective anti-tank weapons, more cost.

    At present, the 23rd Division is already in danger under the impact of the tanks of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. As a tentative counterattack before the Kwantung Army's full counterattack, it has almost concentrated the last remaining troops of the 23rd Division in the counterattack. So far, it has only recovered  After reaching the front line of Sunjiayingzi, it came to a standstill due to lack of follow-up troops and insufficient soldiers.

    Although the last remnant of the 71st Division is still resisting, the troops and ammunition are currently consuming the embers. In the words of the division's Lieutenant General Nagasaki Yamato, the division has fallen into a desperate situation, and the entire division currently only has insufficient troops.  Thousands of people, all heavy weapons have been lost, light weapons ammunition has been reduced to ten rounds per person per day, two of the three regiment captains have been killed, and the entire division is in a state of total disarray.??The edge of destruction.

    As for the 28th and 29th Divisions fighting north of Xinjing, they have been divided. The losses of the 28th Division have reached 70%. The 29th Division, which is in the best condition, has also been divided.  More than half of the damage was done, and in Xinjing City, the sound of artillery coming from the north could be clearly heard, and just outside Xinjing City, a small group of anti-alliance troops had already penetrated.

    Under the increasingly severe situation, in order to ensure the safety of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, the Kwantung Army Headquarters had to move from Xinjing to  Siping Street in the south.

    Although the current battle situation is like this, it is part of the so-called plan of the entire Kwantung Army to lure the enemy deeper, but the situation has suddenly changed so badly, which is something that commanders at all levels of the Kwantung Army, including Yoshijiro Umezu, did not expect.  It also caused Umezu Yoshijiro to hesitate before fully counterattacking.

    Especially under the fierce impact of the armored cluster tactics adopted by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, in just one day, the forward positions that could have been held for a week according to the plan were broken through across the board. On that day, the armored troops of the Anti-Japanese Alliance broke into the Japanese positions as deep as more than ten people.  kilometers, the war situation deteriorated so quickly that the Kwantung Army had never expected.

    The Kwantung Army did not expect that the Anti-Japanese Alliance would avoid the 71st Division in front of Nanxing'an and use the layers of blocking positions set up in the Greater Khingan Mountains to forcibly connect with Outer Mongolia and penetrate Linxi, ruthlessly attacking the Kwantung Army's weakness.  The knife was inserted fiercely. This knife was undoubtedly the most ruthless and fatal knife for the entire frontal deployment of the Kwantung Army.

    It was this sword that made General Umezu Yoshijiro even more hesitant when he issued the counterattack order. He could not turn a blind eye to the anti-alliance forces north of Xinjing and put all his effective forces in Western Manchuria. As the current commander of the Kwantung Army,  Official, he will never tolerate Xinjing being lost in his hands.

    If the situation in Western Manchuria is allowed to deteriorate rapidly, it will be even more fatal to the Kwantung Army's rule in Northeast China than losing Xinjing. If Xinjing is lost, at most it will have political and morale consequences for the Kwantung Army and the base camp.  It will have a certain impact, but it is not a fatal blow.

    But once the Anti-Alliance takes hold in Western Manchuria, not only will Southern Manchuria, which contains the essence of the entire so-called Manchuria and the main population centers of Manchuria, be directly under the front of the Anti-Alliance, but it will also connect the Kwantung Army and the North China Front.  The Bac Ninh Railway, the throat of these two Japanese strategic groups, poses a fatal threat.

    And neither the Kwantung Army, the North China Front Army, nor the base camp would tolerate this kind of thing happening. As early as the beginning of the advancing army entering Rehe, the base camp had sternly warned the Kwantung Army, even if the entire Western Manchuria and most of Jehol were  If it is lost, even if Xinjing is lost, the Beining Railway cannot be in any danger.

    Of course, the base camp did not blame the Kwantung Army blindly. Although the Japanese have always been dishonest, they could not accept that others did not keep their trust. While sending two generals from the staff headquarters to Manchuria to supervise the war, the Japanese  Through the ambassador to the Soviet Union and the military attache of the embassy in the Soviet Union, people also lodged serious protests against the Soviet Union's permission for the Anti-Japanese Alliance to use the route through Outer Mongolia.

    Even when the Soviet Union is currently in a large-scale war, and the war situation is extremely pessimistic, the Japanese have rarely adopted direct threats of war. The Japanese ambassador who went to protest told the Soviet Union that if the Soviet Union cannot give a  If there is a reasonable explanation, Japan reserves the option of using force to resolve the issue.

    In the view of a considerable number of people in Japan, the Soviets, who have been defeated repeatedly in battles, are now unable to protect themselves under the fierce German armored offensive. The Soviets, who need to deal with the Western Front with all their strength, are now simply unable to cope with the Japanese attack from the Eastern Front.  Attack, as long as the threat is in place, the Soviets can only bow their heads no matter how tyrannical they are.

    Although the Japanese have not developed their own armored forces on a large scale, they are still relatively clear about the amount of materials consumed by a large armored corps every day. The Japanese can easily calculate the amount of materials consumed by the Anti-Japanese Alliance based on the consumption of their own tank troops.  The consumption of anti-Union armored forces in Linxi.

    They knew very well that the anti-alliance forces fighting in Western Manchuria, not counting the daily quantity of ammunition, would consume a huge amount of fuel alone. Under the circumstances that the direct ground communication line has not yet been opened, if the anti-alliance forces  If you want to replenish supplies for the troops fighting in Western Manchuria, you can only go through Outer Mongolia.

    They believed that as long as the Soviets cut off the supply lines from Outer Mongolia to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which lacked fuel and supplies, would have no choice but to stop its offensive in Western Manchuria, and the few transport planes of the Anti-Japanese Alliance could not satisfy such a force at all.  The daily supplies required by the army are astronomical.

    What the Japanese didn¡¯t expect was that just before the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union?When the Soviet Union protested, the Soviets responded helplessly. The Anti-Union Movement did not receive the permission of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was also negotiating with the Anti-Union Army and protesting, and had already taken measures against the Anti-Union Army.  Corresponding sanctions.

    This included an immediate end to the sale of all supplies needed by the military and civilians to the Anti-Resistance Alliance, including all weapons and equipment, including all kinds of oil, food, medicine and other materials that could be used for military purposes. It also prohibited the Anti-Resistance Alliance from selling to other countries through the territory of the Soviet Union.  Import supplies and cut off the Anti-Japanese Alliance's supply routes through the Soviet Union and the territory of the Mongolian People's Republic to the troops under its jurisdiction.

    As for the sale of tanks to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the Soviets believed that the main tanks currently used by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the T-26 tanks and the BT series fast tanks, were already second-line equipment in the Soviet army. The sale of these tanks to the Anti-Japanese Alliance did not violate  An agreement previously reached between Japan and the Soviet Union.

    Since Japan has become an ally with Germany, it must be familiar with the tanks used by the Soviet army on the Soviet-German battlefield. It should be known that these two tanks are already second-line equipment for the Soviet Union. The original agreement stipulated that the sale of active tanks was prohibited.  weapons, but did not stipulate that the Soviet Union was not allowed to sell decommissioned equipment.

    The Soviet Union has the right to sell decommissioned equipment to any party according to its needs in certain aspects. As long as the Soviet Union does not violate the agreement reached with the Japanese, the Japanese have no control over this and have no right.  Ask.
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