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Text Chapter 16 Minimum Requirements for Base Camp

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    After a brief hesitation, Umezu Yoshijiro finally said to Yoshimoto Sadao: "Yoshimoto-kun, since Lieutenant Commander Takei, the Chief of Staff, also agrees with your plan, then according to your ideas, you will personally order the divisions at the front to immediately  Terminate the attack and retreat at full speed. The defense areas after the retreat of these divisions will be handled according to your decision. "

    "For future strategic actions, you and Lieutenant Colonel Takei will come up with a detailed plan. If I am not dismissed from my position by the base camp this time, by the end of this year, before the base camp completes the next strategic goal, the Kwantung Army will implement this plan.  "As for the issue of accountability, the Kwantung Army will give a complete explanation to His Majesty the Emperor and the base camp in the future."

    As soon as Umezu Yoshijiro finished speaking, Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo over there said: "I don't want to express my opinion on how the Kwantung Army will adjust its deployment, but since the Kwantung Army has made up its mind to terminate the operation, then the Fifth Division and the Tenth Division  The regiment and the base camp will be transferred. When the forward divisions retreat, these two divisions will be transported to Kanto Prefecture by train. "

    "It is getting closer and closer to the next strategic development of the base camp. If these two divisions continue to be in Manchuria, it will affect the development of the next strategic intention of the base camp, and not only these two divisions will have to adjust  Let¡¯s go, the Thirteenth Division must return to the China Expeditionary Force within the shortest possible time.¡±

    "General Umezu, this is the base camp's overall plan for the future strategic development of the empire. The China battlefield is now almost entirely relying on ad hoc divisions and newly formed divisions for support. There is a serious lack of backbones, and the empire currently controls the area in China.  It is not only a food warehouse, a resource warehouse, and a base for necessary labor to support the empire's future strategic development, but it is also an important financial source for the empire."

    "In order to ensure that the empire has strict control over the currently occupied areas in China, to ensure the supply of strategic materials such as coal, grain, and cotton to the empire, and to utilize the richness of China to ensure part of the empire's financial resources, the empire must maintain a strong garrison in China. This  The decision to return the Thirteenth Division to the China Expeditionary Force was made at the beginning of this battle. "

    "However, considering the current predicament of the Kwantung Army and the current situation of the Manchurian Empire, the base camp agreed to replenish the several divisions of the Kwantung Army that were damaged in this battle as soon as possible. At the same time, the base camp will consider as appropriate, increase the number of divisions to the Kwantung Army.  The establishment of the two divisions is based on the Gongzhuling Army Tank School to expand the mecha unit."

    "But whether it is to increase the establishment of two divisions or to expand the organization and scale of the mecha troops, we must wait for the empire's next strategy to be completed before we can start. As for now, the empire cannot focus all its energy.  In Manchuria, you must know that the Kwantung Army is indeed the most important strategic group in the empire, but there is not only one Kwantung Army in the empire. "

    "I hope that before the empire completes the expansion of the Kwantung Army, the Kwantung Army will at least not act rashly for the time being, and everything will be focused on ensuring the security of South Manchuria and Rehe. I emphasize again that before the empire fully restores and strengthens the combat power of the Kwantung Army, South Manchuria will  The safety of Manchu and Rehe must be guaranteed, and there must be no mistakes in the direction of Xinjing. This is the base camp's minimum requirement for the Kwantung Army. "

    "Manchuria and Mongolia are the lifeline of the empire, and southern Manchuria is the lifeline of Manchuria and Mongolia. If anyone puts southern Manchuria in danger at this time, he will become a historical sinner of the empire. However, considering the current situation in Manchuria, the base camp will order the North China Front Army  In terms of strategy, give the Kwantung Army maximum cooperation and coordinate operations with the Kwantung Army.¡±

    "After I return to my hometown, I will also ask the base camp to add some special warfare weapons to the Kwantung Army. From now on, we will strive to ensure that the Kwantung Army's special warfare weapons reserve doubles the current number before the end of the year.  We are allocating 20,000 Korean troops to the Kwantung Army to expand the force of the Manchu Empire and temporarily make up for the Kwantung Army's shortage of troops. "

    "However, if the Kwantung Army agrees to this plan, then the expansion of weapons and equipment required by the Manchukuo Army can only be temporarily solved internally by the Kwantung Army. The base camp can only coordinate the China dispatched army to allocate part of the loot and reserves to the Kwantung Army, and the rest  The Kwantung Army can only rely on itself.¡±

    For Okabe Naosaburo not only to transfer the 5th and 12th Divisions, but also to return the 13th Division to China, Yoshijiro Umezu did not express any objection from beginning to end, because he knew  No matter how firmly you object, it is of no use.

    The war going south is the top priority of the empire at present. The base camp will not affect the southward fighting for the sake of the Kwantung Army. It is true that Manchuria and Mongolia are the lifeline of the empire, but now Manchuria does not have what the empire needs more.  To solve the current predicament, the empire is now in a state where it is ready to launch its southward campaign.

    At this time, even if the base camp attaches great importance to the Kwantung Army, from a strategic point of view, they will not put most of their strength and energy into the Kwantung Army. At least when the battle to the south is fully clear, they will still put most of their energy in the south.

    This battle was able to keep these two divisions in Manchuria for such a long time. It was the best efforts of Naosaburo Okabe, the representative of the base camp. If he wanted to keep these two divisions in the Kwantung Army for a long time, the base camp was determined.  I won't agree. As for the Thirteenth Division, it was originally sent by China to support the army. Now that the war has stopped, it is normal to return the organization.

    Compared with Northern Manchuria, which has not been developed in most areas, from the base camp's perspective, as long as the industrial base, as well as the coal and steel bases in Southern Manchuria are ensured, it will not have any impact on the empire's progress in the war for the time being. As for Northern Manchuria, in the  Now that we have given up fighting against the Soviet Union for the time being, it is no longer that important.

    Therefore, in this battle for strength, the base camp is destined not to tilt its main attention to the Kwantung Army. When the battle was still going on, the base camp continued to draw from the Kwantung Army's reserves regardless of the current situation of the Kwantung Army's fierce fighting.  , the transfer of a large number of artillery shells to the south has already explained the problem.

    And his influence as the commander of the Kwantung Army in the top ranks of the army is far inferior to that of the commander of the Southern Army, who once served as Secretary of the Army and Director of Education, two of the three giants of the army. In this battle for troops, he himself  In a weak position.

    He knew that it was impossible for the base camp to increase the strength of the Kwantung Army at this time. If the base camp could defeat the Seventh Division, the Fourteenth Division, and the Twenty-third Division, the three main forces of the Kwantung Army, in the shortest possible time.  Once the division has been replenished and organized, it has already given itself a lot of face.

    Moreover, after this disastrous defeat, the base camp still doesn¡¯t know how to deal with itself and Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadichi. Like the predecessor General Ueda Kenkichi, it is not impossible to be evacuated to the end. After all, if we talk about failure, we have lost troops and generals for two consecutive years.  He is much more serious than Daichi Ueda back then.

    If the base camp follows the precedent of reorganizing senior officers of the Kwantung Army after the Battle of Nomonhan, and orders itself and Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadichi to be transferred to the reserve this time, then how much force will the base camp mobilize to the Kwantung Army? What will the Kwantung Army do?  Wherever you go has nothing to do with you.

    Therefore, General Umezu Yoshijiro did not show any care about Naosaburo Okabe's move of taking money from the bottom of the cauldron at this time. That was a matter for the commander later, not for himself who is now half-awaited. He should think too much about it.  Yes, this time the Kwantung Army was defeated, it was unshirkable responsibility for me as the commander, and I am afraid that the emperor has lost confidence in himself after losing consecutive battles since arriving in Manchuria.

    Although Umezu Yoshijiro still didn't know how the base camp would deal with his defeat, he didn't make any statement on the base camp's move, and even helped Naosaburo Okabe suppress it.  After the move of three divisions, dissatisfaction broke out on the scene.

    However, although he thought that he was dismissed from his post, Umezu Yoshijiro believed that after all, he was still the commander of the Kwantung Army. There were some things that he should still strive for, especially in terms of replenishing soldiers and battle-damaged equipment. As the current commander of the Kwantung Army, he must  To be completed in the shortest possible time.

    In fact, it is not too difficult for the Kwantung Army to replenish the troops lost in this battle. It can be done alone without even having to bother with the base camp. How many soldiers and expatriates are there in South Manchuria?  One hundred thousand, from which some young men can be mobilized to join the army, it can easily complete the replenishment of the battle-damaged troops.

    Doing this is much faster than mobilizing troops from the mainland to replenish troops. Moreover, the number of expatriates in South Manchuria and the number of soldiers in the countryside can fully meet the needs of replenishing troops. This will not only save a lot of time,  It can also prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the situation.

    Transferring three divisions at once would, for the current Kwantung Army, be tantamount to weakening its own strength, which was already quite weak after the war. The slow supplementary training in the local area should have given the Kwantung Army additional troops, so in the supplement  Before it is over, the Kwantung Army will stick to the existing front line, let alone counterattack, and its strength will be seriously insufficient.

    Umezu Yoshijiro believes that in the current extraordinary period, naturally we cannot stick to routine. How to complete the existing organizational structure of the Kwantung Army in the shortest possible time? How to do it step by step can only allow the Kwantung Army to survive for a long time.  If it weakens, it will give the enemy on the opposite side an opportunity to take advantage of it. The Resistance Alliance in front of them is not the Northeast Army during the Manchurian Incident.

    It¡¯s just that although the Kwantung Army can rely on the expatriates currently in Manchuria and can complete its replenishment independently, after all, as a modern army, Japan has a strict conscription system and temporarily recruits some expatriates to participate in the war. This does not violate Japan¡¯sThe conscription system is also the practice of the Japanese army.

    ¡°However, without the consent of the base camp, recruiting a large number of supplementary troops from overseas residents without authorization is tantamount to a partial mobilization. No matter what the starting point of the Kwantung Army is, in the eyes of Umezu Yoshijiro, it is tantamount to directly destroying the Japanese military recruitment system.

    And this point is exactly what Umezu Yoshijiro, who firmly opposed the action of undermining the superiority, adopted various methods after taking office to completely eliminate this trend within the Kwantung Army, which had the worst trend of undermining the superiority, could not accept it. Without the approval of the base camp, he would not do so without permission.  Action.

    Just in the mainland, new divisions are being continuously formed for the upcoming southward war. In order to stabilize the occupied areas in mainland China and ensure the supply of supplies, new divisions are also being continuously added to the China Expeditionary Army to fill the original divisions.  The vacancy occurred when the regiment was transferred.

    As well as the combat effectiveness of those well-equipped divisions that have been transferred away to a certain extent, the Kwantung Army is definitely not in the first place in the entire base camp's replenishment sequence, at least before the end of the southward campaign.  They are at the front of the queue. If they still wait for local reinforcements according to past practice, then when it is the Kwantung Army's turn, they will no longer know that it is the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.
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