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Text Chapter 219 A poisonous plan?

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    After the Sixty-ninth Division lost contact, the Chinese saying that good fortune never comes singly appeared in Neji Okamura's mind. After the Sixty-ninth Division's radio contact was completely lost, he immediately reacted.  When something went wrong, Okamura Neiji immediately dispatched reinforcements to bypass Liangcheng and directly reinforce them. As for the direction of Datong, he temporarily put it aside.

    Although the Anti-Japanese Alliance there has broken into the city and is in fierce battle with the defenders in Datong City, the troops and fortification groups defended by Datong are still intact. In particular, there are favorable fortification groups to rely on. Most of the outer positions of Datong are still intact.  It is still in the hands of the defenders. As long as the Datong defenders do not rush out of the city to counterattack, there is no danger in holding on for ten days and a half.

    It's just that he did this to make Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadichi, who had just been transferred from the post of chief of staff of the Kwantung Army to the commander of the First Army. As soon as the battle started, he made him an almost bare commander. How could he think that no one could  Knowing that, Okamura Neji, who was eager to rescue the 69th Division who might be in danger, no longer cared about his feelings at this time.

    Before this battle, it was he, Okamura Ningji, who applied to the base camp to transfer a senior officer of the Kwantung Army to the North China Front Army as deputy chief of staff or chief of staff of that army, in the name of the North China Front Army having no experience in fighting the Anti-Japanese Alliance.  In particular, the Mongolian Army and the First Army are the two directions that Okamura Neiji believes should be strengthened.

    But the base camp didn¡¯t know what was going on. In February this year, Lieutenant General Yoshio Iwamatsu, the former commander of the First Army, was transferred to the Xinminhui as the top adviser, and the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Yoshimoto Sadichi, was transferred to the Xinminhui.  He was transferred to the First Army as commander, and after Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadichi took office, he added a lot of obstacles to Okamura Neji.

    When he was the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, he fought against the Anti-Japanese Alliance many times. Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadichi, who believed that he had a detailed understanding of the enemy's army, directly asked Okamura Neji to abandon Chaxi and Suidong and move the 26th Division and the 1st  The 10th Division withdrew to the front lines of Tuchengzi, Xinghe, and Zhangjiakou, and made every effort to defend the battlefields in Chanan and northern Shanxi to ensure the safety of northern Shanxi and Suinan.

    At least two infantry divisions were mobilized in Yanggao and Tianzhen in northern Shanxi and Fengzhen in Suinan to be used as the second echelon and mobile emergency force. Yoshimoto Sadai believed that the 26th Division and the 1st Infantry Division alone could  It is difficult for the 10th Division and the independent ninth brigade to defend the vast area of ????Chabei.

    Instead of dividing the troops to guard and being defeated by the enemy one by one, it is better to withdraw the troops to the front line of Tuchengzi, Xinghe, and Zhangjiakou, and use the local terrain of mainly mountainous areas and narrow plains to gradually consume the enemy's effective strength and material reserves.  , and lengthen the enemy's supply line as much as possible.

    We must persist until the land is civilized in mid-April, when the enemy's vehicle mobility is restricted and their maneuverability is greatly reduced. If we carry out a full-line counterattack, the enemy's manpower will be greatly reduced and material transportation will be affected by the muddy roads.  It gave the Japanese army the opportunity to annihilate the enemy forces on the Western Front in one fell swoop.

    Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Teiichi, who had suffered heavy losses many times in the Anti-Japanese War and never accurately judged the enemy's strength, firepower, and equipment, proposed this plan. In fact, it is not complicated. It is to make the terrain flat and provide space for the enemy.  The terrain where military tanks exert their power places the main lines of defense in mountainous areas.

    Because Yoshimoto Teiichi believed that although the Anti-Japanese Alliance could not manufacture high-tech weapons such as tanks, since the Empire was already at full war with the United States and Britain, the United States and Britain wanted to weaken the momentum of the Empire's offensive and disperse the Empire's forces to fight against the United States and Britain.  They are bound to provide assistance to the Anti-Alliance, especially the British. As early as the Napoleonic era, they were quite skilled in the one-on-one method.

    Both the United States and Britain have the ability to produce and manufacture tanks in large quantities. If they assist the Anti-Alliance tanks in large quantities, it will be too dangerous to fight with the Anti-Alliance coaches in the plains, especially when the Japanese army's anti-Alliance intelligence collection plans have repeatedly failed and are almost impossible to obtain.  With a little useful information, the safest way is to stick to the mountainous areas and abandon the plain terrain.

    Shorten your own supply line, lengthen the opponent's supply line, and use huge material consumption to crush the enemy's large-scale offensive. Who knows, every time you give the Kwantung Army some new tricks to resist the alliance, this time it will give the North China Front another one.  What kind of surprise, for such an unpredictable army, sometimes it is necessary to give something up.

    In fact, Yoshimoto Teiichi's idea is most in line with the current situation of the Japanese and Anti-Alliance forces and equipment before the battle started. It is also an effective summary of his experience after years of suffering losses. After the battle started, the entire battle progressed in accordance with  As a result of his idea, the number of tanks dispatched by the Anti-Japanese Alliance far exceeded the Japanese army's expectations.

    But his idea seems to be consistent with reality in the eyes of Okamura Neiji, but after all, he, Yoshimoto Teiichi, is not the commander of the North China Front Army. As the commander of the First Army, he can give up Chahar and Suidong and focus on northern Shanxi.  , which was his duty as commander of the First Army.

    But Gang?Ningji cannot do this. He will abandon the entire Chahar except Chanan and even the entire Suidong without firing a shot, and shrink his troops to the Suizhong area. If Okamura Neji did this today,  Tomorrow the commander of this front army will have to be replaced. He, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Teiichi, is also considered a senior general of the empire. He has never seen anything eaten by the empire and spit it out without doing anything.

    Although Yoshimoto Seiichi's idea cannot be implemented, Okamura Neji, who actually agrees with it in his heart, did not say much about his idea. However, among the top brass of the North China Front, many people think that Yoshimoto Seiichi's  The idea is to defend his first military area with all his strength.

    In particular, Lieutenant General Ichiro Nanada, the commander of the Mongolian Army, had strong opinions on Yoshimoto Seiichi's plan. Okamura Neiji worked hard to suppress the request of some senior generals to replace the new commander of the First Army.  He retained his position as commander of Lieutenant General Sadaichi Yoshimoto and did not become the shortest-lived army commander in the history of the First Army.

    However, Yoshimoto Sadichi was still ignorant. Instead of understanding his painstaking efforts, he called the North China Front several times and insisted that his plan be implemented. Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadichi even proposed that if his plan was not implemented, then the first  The general will not participate in this battle.

    Not to mention which of the three divisions and two independent mixed brigades of the North China Front will be transferred to participate in the war, the First Army will not agree to transfer even one squadron, because Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadichi insists that then  It is to deliver results to the Anti-Japanese Alliance rather than to fight.

    The two people had a very heated argument over deployment matters. In the end, Lieutenant General Harem Chun, Chief of Staff of the Army, was dispatched to mediate. This time fighting in Chahar and Suiyuan, in addition to the third independent mixed brigade,  The North China Front Army was not mobilizing other units of the First Army. The North China Front Army was insufficient in strength, and the dispatched army was responsible for solving the problem.

    But after the Anti-Japanese Alliance broke into Datong, the two of them had another quarrel. Yoshimoto Teiichi insisted not to add any reinforcements to Datong, but believed that the most important thing to do at the moment was to take advantage of the opportunity that the Anti-Union offensive was delayed by the Datong battlefield.  , mobilize sufficient troops to build a second deep line of defense along Shuoxian, Yingxian, and Hunyuan along the inner Great Wall.

    Because in the view of Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadichi, the situation of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in Fengzhen, Jining, and Datong is obviously to encircle the points for reinforcements. Although the enemy forces attacking Datong are not large, they are supported by the communist troops in Nanguan.  , the North can add a large number of troops at any time.

    No matter how many reinforcements are mobilized, unless a large number of reinforcements are dispatched at the same time, they will only be eaten up by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. No matter how many troops are currently invested in the battlefields of Jining and Datong, the final result will be to lose wives and lose troops. Instead of a large number of reinforcements,  The troops were wasted in vain, so it would be better to retreat to the front line of the inner Great Wall, stick to various strategic points, and form a deep defense.

    Although Okamura Neiji does not deny that Yoshimoto Seiichi's opinion is correct, but again, he is the commander of the North China Front Army, not the commander of the First Army. His jurisdiction covers the entire North China, as well as Suiyuan and Chaha  You, give up Suinan without fighting, sit back and watch Datong fight hard without rescue, the base camp will definitely not allow it.

    So after the war situation took a turn for the worse, in order to reduce the constraints of Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadichi, Okamura Neji simply learned the method of inserting himself into the side and disrupting his own deployment, his superior General Hata Shunroku, bypassing his military commander.  The commander directly mobilizes the divisions under the First Army.

    As for Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Teiichi, who he had made into a polished commander, Okamura Neiji gave him a new mission, which was to lure the commander of the Second Theater District to surrender at all costs, and even ordered Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Teiichi to  Except for the Yumenkou area in southern Shanxi to Yuncheng south of Quwo, all the garrison troops in the counties west of the Tongpu Railway will be evacuated.

    At the same time, all control of the counties in northwestern Shanxi was secretly handed over to the Jinsui Army, so that the Jinsui Army could replace the already insufficient First Army to wipe out the Communist forces in the Luliang Mountains. If Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadichi felt that he could control  To maintain the rhythm, Qinyuan in the Taiyue Mountains and Yushe, Wuxiang, and Liao County in the hinterland of the Taihang Mountains can also be handed over to the Shanxi-Sui Army.

    And dispatched some troops to cover the Jinsui Army crossing the Tongpu Railway. If there is friction between the Jinsui Army and the troops belonging to the 18th Group Army, some troops will be deployed to cooperate with the Jinsui Army's military operations. In a word, we must be good at using the Chinese internal forces.  The contradictions caused them to kill each other to solve the problem of insufficient Japanese troops.

    Okamura Neiji's move was very vicious. He used several counties as bait to lure the World War II areas who were eager to expand their living space, and replaced the under-strength First Army to fight against the Kanai troops. As for those abandoned counties, in Okamura Neiji's view  Giving up is only temporary. If the commander of the second theater does not know how to appreciate it, his first army can turn around at any time to completely eliminate the hundreds of thousands of troops in the second theater after the current crisis is resolved.

    In order to stabilize the war as soon as possible??, Okamura Neiji can be said to have worked hard. However, although there are more convenient railways for transportation, following the previous mistakes of the main force of the 15th Division being bombed, Okamura Neiji has no regard for the transportation of reinforcements.  No matter what, I don¡¯t dare to take the railway again.

    Moreover, after the Anti-Japanese Alliance suddenly appeared near Datong, enemy planes bombed the Tongpu Railway immediately. The entire North Tongpu Railway was bombed and could only pass intermittently. Not to mention that railway transportation is extremely dangerous, even if it can  Utilized, but the reinforcement speed cannot increase.

    Since the railway is no longer in use, the only thing Neji Okamura hopes for this time to go north for reinforcements is to have a large number of trucks in his hands. He will use a large number of trucks along the highway to transport these troops to where he has designated them in the shortest possible time.  position, and now rescuing the 69th Division, which is probably in trouble, has become Okamura Neiji's top priority.

    The reason why the radio signal of the 69th Division disappeared is very simple, because not only was the headquarters of this division destroyed, but even the main force of the division was wiped out. The entire division organization has completed a two-sided attack.  The resistance alliance was divided and surrounded, and was in the process of being encircled and annihilated. The division and regiment headquarters were destroyed, and the entire organization was disrupted. Naturally, this high-power radio station could not be used.
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