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Text Chapter 457 This is the revenge of the Anti-League

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    What he knew even more was that these anti-alliance aircraft, which were hovering over his head all day long and showed a reluctance attitude, were now dispatched with such high frequency.  They even ignored the desperate interceptions of the Kwantung Army aviation and launched a desperate attack on the 23rd Division. It was obvious that it was not simply to weaken the combat effectiveness of the 23rd Division.  I'm afraid revenge for what the 23rd Division did in Hylar played a large part in the reason.

    For Nishihara Kanji, as an army lieutenant general who graduated from the Japanese Army University, how could he not know that the more concealed the retreat under the eyes of the enemy, the better?  If he did something so earth-shattering, wouldn't he be asking for death?  Killing tens of thousands of Manchus is nothing, but when you are at a disadvantage, you are seeking death.

    To be honest, Lieutenant General Kanji Nishihara was quite satisfied with the excuses given by the two staff officers who caused these troubles for ordering the massacre in order to keep the secrets of the Hyrule Fortress Group and to inspire the imperial soldiers to have the courage to fight again.  Disapproval.  I even think that these two guys found this excuse, which is quite lame.

    Indeed, in his opinion, no matter how dead people are, they will not reveal secrets.  But you want to keep the secret of Hyrule Fortress Group, why do you want to massacre the city?  Just kill all the workers who built the fortress complex.  As for the reason for his dissatisfaction, it was not that he thought the empire would hold him responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Manchu civilians.

    ¡°In the later stages of the Shanghai Incident, the Empire¡¯s troops dispatched to Shanghai did even more excessive things in Nanjing, the capital of China, and the Empire did not see that person actually punished.  They just singled out an unlucky guy, Lieutenant General Hisao Tani, commander of the Sixth Division, as the scapegoat.  Moreover, the so-called serious punishment for him was just to retire from active duty early and transfer to reserve duty.

    As for the huge amount of property this guy robbed along the way from Shanghai to Nanjing, no one went to trace it.  No one pursued his actions of publicly raping Chinese women on the streets of Nanjing.  Except for this unlucky lieutenant general, whose subordinates performed too well in that incident, the remaining squadron leaders did not even receive the most basic punishment.

    And other division commanders who committed no less crimes than him were promoted one after another after this battle.  None of the brigade commanders and regimental commanders who personally went into battle with swords and killed people in the street were held accountable, and no one's future was delayed. There are also many who have been promoted to division commanders.

    In the view of Lieutenant General Nishihara Kanji, what the 23rd Division did in Hailar was far worse than what the Shanghai Expeditionary Force did in Nanjing.  Neither the emperor nor the base camp held the Shanghai dispatched troops accountable, let alone held themselves accountable for the tens of thousands of people in Hailar.

    But for Lieutenant General Nishihara Kanji, he is more worried that this kind of massacre will completely anger his opponents.  Once the opponent is completely angered, and the Kwantung Army cannot spare any troops to cover its retreat in order to stabilize the current front, it will be quite disadvantageous for the 23rd Division, which is retreating south alone.  And the facts that have happened since the second day of the retreat have proven the accuracy of his original prediction.

    Although the main forces mobilized by the Anti-Japanese Alliance to march westward were unable to pursue them due to some special reasons known only to some people.  But they did their best to concentrate a large number of aviation forces, using air superiority and overwhelming bombs to cause huge casualties to the 23rd Division.

    It has only been less than three days since the departure from Hailar, and before it has retreated to the Aershan line, the 23rd Division has been under almost continuous air attacks by its opponents, suffering nearly a quarter of its casualties.  The 23rd Division is currently a very precious heavy equipment for the Kwantung Army, but it was all lost due to the opponent's air strikes.

    What¡¯s more important is the impact of the Anti-Alliance air strikes on the speed and time of the 23rd Division¡¯s retreat.  Under the opponent's almost round-the-clock air raids, coupled with the poor road conditions and the large number of expatriates they carried that delayed the retreat, the 23rd Division's marching speed was no faster than a tortoise crawling.

    Three days have passed, and the 23rd Division is still dozens of kilometers away from the first destination of the retreat, Aershan.  There is still a long road ahead. Who knows how much combat power the 23rd Division will have left if this situation continues?  A fully-staffed division was now forced into such a tragic situation by the opponent's aviation force, which made Kanji Nishihara's anger reach the extreme.

    Faced with the unrelenting pursuit and bombing by the Anti-Alliance Air Force, Kanji Nishihara directed his anger at the two guys who ordered the massacre of the city under the guise of his orders.  If they hadn't been unable to see the current situation clearly and issued the order to massacre the city without authorization, triggering retaliation from the resistance alliance, the 23rd Division would have suffered such heavy losses.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????OUTOUT OFFICE  Do you really think that the Kwantung Army is invincible?  No one?Why not stop them?  Are they thinking too simply of others, or are they too stupid?

    What disappointed him even more was the performance of the Kwantung Army headquarters.  Since the first day of the evacuation from Hailar, almost all wired and wireless communications between the 23rd Division and the Kwantung Army Headquarters have been interrupted.  Even after leaving Hylar, the continuity between the 23rd Division and its various regiments was intermittent.

    The air support promised by the Kwantung Army Headquarters rarely comes on time.  On the few occasions of air cover, the fighter groups sent out to cover were clearly at a disadvantage in the air battle with their opponents.  There was no way to stop the anti-alliance aviation force from bombing the 23rd Division. In addition, it suffered considerable losses in the three days of air battles.

    The current situation can be described as being at a loss for Kanji Nishihara.  Faced with the heavy losses suffered by the 23rd Division under the bombing of the Anti-Alliance Air Force, Nishihara Kanji felt that all his painstaking efforts to escape the Anti-Alliance pursuit were in vain.

    The currently entangled Resistance Alliance did not send ground troops to pursue them, but the intensity of the air strike was even greater than the ground pursuit.  Facing the bombed troops with heavy casualties, Kanji Nishihara could not even imagine how long his troops could resist once the main force of the Anti-Alliance caught up with them, given the current miserable situation of his troops.

    So, while being angry, Kanji Nishihara was somewhat thankful that his method was successful.  This guy is even a little proud. He just used a small trick to successfully hold back the pursuers of the Anti-Japanese Alliance without wasting a single soldier of the 23rd Division.

    As for the reason why the main force of the Anti-Japanese Alliance failed to pursue them, Kanji Nishihara certainly knew it well.  Because this good show was originally directed by him.  As early as the moment he received the order to retreat from the Kwantung Army, Kanji Nishihara had been thinking about how to safely retreat to the front line of Wangye Temple with thousands of imperial expatriates under the eyes of his opponents.

    After all, it is almost impossible for the actions of tens of thousands of people not to attract the attention of an opponent who is only separated by the Greater Khingan Mountains.  After the battle ended last year, both sides temporarily suspended large-scale combat operations.  However, both sides are still watching with eager eyes, and their reconnaissance and infiltration into the opponent's jurisdiction have not stopped for a day.

    Nishihara Kanji believes that it is impossible to hide his retreat from his opponents without taking some necessary measures.  It is not that he is afraid of possible pursuit and interception by his opponents. For the senior officials of the Japanese Kwantung Army who have not really and completely admitted defeat, the anti-alliance alliance is far from enough to make them lose their composure.  It's just that Kanji Nishihara didn't want to cause too many casualties to his division during the retreat.

    In order to retreat safely without attracting the attention of the opponent, Lieutenant General Nishihara Kanji took great pains.  In addition to abandoning the strategically important blog line on the Binzhou Railway, the defense line was reduced to the line from Yakeshi to Hailar, and several blocking lines were set up based on the favorable terrain in order to maximize the savings in troops.

    They also used the spy network planted by the Japanese army in Mongolia, especially a senior spy lurking in the eastern cluster of Soviet and Mongolian troops, to encourage the Mongols to take advantage of the situation and enter Xing'an North.  Take advantage of the international situation to thwart the possible pursuit of yourself by the Anti-Japanese Alliance.  For him, as long as he can entangle his opponent's attack, other things don't matter.

    What happens next is a matter for the future. What needs to be solved now is how to retreat safely.  As for how to deal with these Mongolian troops after defeating the Anti-Japanese Alliance, Kanji Nishihara didn't care.  Anyway, hasn¡¯t the base camp been planning a war against the Soviet Union?  Wouldn¡¯t that be a good excuse then?

    As the Kwantung Army currently responsible for commanding operations against Mongolia, Nishihara Kanji has a very accurate grasp of the mentality of the Mongols in the Inner Mongolia region who dream of occupying Manchuria.  Although this bet on his unauthorized actions will cause some trouble for the Kwantung Army in the future, it is still very beneficial to the 23rd Division now.

    "And Kanji Nishihara, who had all his plans, was not in vain. The Mongols really fell into the trap.  After receiving the information that the 23rd Division's troops were shrinking, they immediately dispatched most of the troops of the Eastern Front Cluster deployed on the Qiuba Mountain front line. Taking advantage of the 23rd Division's opportunity to shrink the defense line, they not only seized the important first-line towns in Manzhouli, but also took advantage of the opportunity.  The plane advanced towards the northern hinterland of Xing'an.

    In fact, as soon as the Mongols crossed the so-called Manchuria-Mongolia border, Kanji Nishihara, who had been closely monitoring the border since the contraction of military strength, knew it.  With the Yakeshi front line unable to be contacted for a long time, Nishihara Kanji, who was eager to retreat, did not care whether the covering troops could be withdrawn.  Taking advantage of the opportunity of someone rushing to act as a shield for him, he immediately took advantage of the situation and evacuated from Hyrule.

    Lieutenant General Kanji Nishihara was very cunning, even though he apparently withdrew all the troops stationed on the border.  But privately, many spies were left behind, even those from Mongolia who were recruited by the Kwantung Army over the years.?An armed force formed by the herdsmen who came here.  Regardless of whether it is the Anti-Japanese Alliance or the so-called Mongolian People's Army, who occupies Hung Yen North Province, these people will become the thorn in the Kwantung Army's deployment in Hung Yen North Province.

    So, he knew about it as soon as those Mongolians crossed the border.  After the Mongolian army entered Manchuria, he had completed preparations for a general retreat.  In order to allow these Mongolian troops to penetrate deeper, they consciously abandoned the area north of the Hailar River to cover the commanding heights of the entire Hailar City, and were prepared to abandon Hailar at any time
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