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Text Chapter 461: This time, that time

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    Looking at the Aershan Railway Station with only ruins left, and the tragic situation in the entire Aershan area even above the 23rd Division.  After Lieutenant General Kanji Nishihara went to the Aershan line to replenish supplies, his hope of taking a train southward along the Bai-A Railway to withdraw to Wangye Temple was completely shattered.

    Even the idea of ??replenishing supplies in the Aershan area is out of reach.  Nearly 10,000 tons of grain reserves in two large Japanese military grain storage warehouses in the Aershan area were sent to the sky together with the storage warehouses.  Of course, there are still some foods such as sorghum rice and acorn noodles that the Manchus and workers eat.  But these pig food, which is only suitable for low-class Chinese people, is the food that the Japanese emperor should eat?

    When he saw the seriously injured Aershan garrison captain wrapped like a rice dumpling, Nishihara Kanji learned that not only the Aershan Railway Station was destroyed in the air raid, but even the north of the Bai'a Railway Prince Temple was seriously damaged.  .  Almost all railway lines have been paralyzed.  Even the Nanxing'an Tunnel, an important hub of the Bai-A Railway, was blown down.

    Hopes of rail transportation were dashed, as were hopes of getting some supplies.  Although there are fortifications in the so-called border fortification area of ??Aershan to rely on, and the surrounding Aershan is surrounded by the mountains of the Greater Khingan Mountains and has dense vegetation.  Compared with the naked and endless Hulunbuir prairie, at least there is no need to be exposed to broad daylight and bombed.

    But what Aershan saw in front of him was undoubtedly an even bigger blow to the morale of the 23rd Division, which had already dropped to the bottom.  Supplies have been completely cut off, and the little food on hand is almost impossible to support their retreat to Wangye Temple.  For the 23rd Division, which had very little ammunition left, it could be said that it was truly in dire straits.

    Although under normal combat conditions, even if food is cut off, it is not a difficult thing to solve for the Japanese army, which has always been robbing.  They confiscated it from the surrounding people on the spot, that is, they just robbed it.  But that means fighting in densely populated areas.

    The problem now is that to the west of the Aershan line is the sparsely populated Mongolian grassland, and to the west is the so-called Mongolian territory.  To the east is the vast Xing'an Mountains.  There are not many people alive outside the area around the railway line, let alone other people.  Even if the 23rd Division wanted to collect food on the spot, it would not be able to collect food.

    Without food, how can we travel the remaining several hundred kilometers?  No matter how hard the Japanese soldiers endured, it was an unsolvable problem whether their physical strength could sustain them without food supplements.  Especially from Aershan to the south, almost all of them march in the mountains.

    Although the dilapidated condition of Arshan was quite disappointing to both Kanji Nishihara and Sadao Chida.  But the dilapidated Aershan gave Nishihara Kanji an unexpected benefit, which was to use the wired communication lines here. After struggling until the next morning, Nishihara Kanji Yoshiyori finally contacted the Kwantung Army headquarters.  .

    The person who answered the phone was Hy身taro Kimura, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, who was preparing for the handover.  Hy身taro Kimura was also surprised when he heard the number of casualties reported by Kanji Nishihara on the phone.  Including the attached troops, the strength of the 23rd Division reached more than 27,000. In addition to the 3,000 people who were wiped out in the battle of Yakeshi, the 23rd Division actually suffered casualties and disappeared during the hundreds of kilometers of retreat.  Nearly ten thousand people.

    In other words, only half of the current 23rd Division, including the Eighth Border Guard Corps and other miscellaneous attached troops, are left.  As for the retreat distance of the 23rd Division, this is only less than half of it.  If we continue at this rate of casualties, how many people will be left in the 23rd Division by the time we reach Wangye Temple?

    As for now entering the Aershan area, which is densely covered with vegetation and protected by a considerable number of permanent fortifications, although it is temporarily out of danger, supplies are close to being cut off.  The interruption of the Bai-A railway line made it impossible for the Kwantung Army headquarters, which lacked trucks, to provide supplies.

    Although the Kwantung Army urgently mobilized several railway squadrons on the first day it was bombed to repair the Bai-A Railway, which was damaged in many places by the bombing.  But the more than 200 kilometers of railway lines north of the Guiliu River that were almost completely paralyzed are so easy to repair, not to mention that almost all the bridges and tunnels were blown up.

    Especially the more than 3,000-meter-long Nanxing'an Tunnel was blown up. It would take at least half a month to complete the repair just by transporting earth and stone.  Moreover, you have just repaired a section after a night of hard work here, but the anti-Japanese aircraft over there made all the efforts of these railway squadrons all in vain the next day.

    Under repeated air raids by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, three days later, the Kwantung Army failed to repair even one kilometer of the destroyed railway.  Not only was the progress slow, but several railway squadrons suffered heavy casualties in the anti-alliance air raids.  If we had just waited for the Bai-A Railway to be fully repaired and reopened to traffic, I am afraid that the entire 23rd Division would have starved to death in the high mountains of the Greater Khingan Range.

    Kimura Hy身taro, who was helpless in the face of the situation at hand, could only fight on the TV?Zhong cheered up Kanji Nishihara.  He was asked to carry forward the hard-working spirit of the imperial army in the so-called Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, and insist on seizing the time to retreat to the front line of Wangye Temple.  At the same time, it was stated that the Kwantung Army would go all out and use all necessary means to replenish supplies for the 23rd Division.

    But Hy身taro Kimura also told Lieutenant General Kanji Nishihara tactfully on the phone.  In view of the fact that air control is currently in the hands of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the supplies that the Kwantung Army can provide to the 23rd Division are extremely limited before all the railways are repaired.  The main thing is that the 23rd Division still needs to find a way to raise money on the spot.

    In addition, Hy身taro Kimura also told Kanji Nishihara on the phone.  The 23rd Division now wants to withdraw to the front line of Wangye Temple, so I'm sorry, we can only rely on your own two legs.  As for rail transportation, don＊t count on it anymore.  Maybe when you all evacuate to Xinjing, the Bai-A Railway, which is currently severely damaged, may not be repairable.

    Kimura Hy身taro＊s answer made Kanji Nishihara, who was relieved because he finally got in touch with the Kwantung Army headquarters, feel like a basin of cold water was poured from his head to his feet in Sanjiutian.  There is still nearly 200 kilometers to go from Aershan to Wangye Temple.  Without railway transportation, if there is no supply, how will the 23rd Division go the rest of the way?

    Putting down the phone, Nishihara Kanji looked at the mountains around Aershan with a wry smile, but he could only shake his head and sigh.  By raising money on the spot, the Kwantung Army Headquarters really stood up and talked without pain in the back.  This place is vast and sparsely populated. Apart from the mountains and forests within dozens of kilometers around it, not even a single person can be seen. How can we raise money on the spot?

    Do they think that sparsely populated Western Manchuria is the same as the densely populated battlefield in China?  Even if they can't get rice and flour, there is still no problem if they can get enough food for these people for a few days.  There are mountains and forests everywhere around here, where can we raise money on the spot?

    If the grain reserves in the Aershan region had not been blown up, Lieutenant General Kanji Nishihara would naturally not have to worry about the supplies of these more than 10,000 people.  Aershan is less than 200 kilometers away from the Nomonhan area where the last conflict between Japan and the Soviet Union broke out.  It is an important material reserve for the Kwantung Army preparing to fight against the Soviet Union and Mongolia.

    Not only were border fortification areas with a large number of permanent and semi-permanent fortifications built here, but also a large number of secret warehouses for food, ammunition and other supplies to be supplemented for the front line during wartime were built.  Although its inventory of grain reserves and light weapons and ammunition cannot be compared with other large and small warehouses that were originally densely populated in the North Manchuria area, it can sustain the consumption of two divisions for a month's combat.

    ※Of course the average Japanese officers and soldiers don＊t know about these situations.  But as the commander of the 23rd Division responsible for the defense of the entire Western Manchuria against the Soviet Union from Manzhouli in the north to Linxi in the south, Nishihara Kanji still knew it.  This is why he agreed with the suggestions of Major Generals Chida Sadao and Kawagore Yuzuo to speed up and force their way to the Aershan front line regardless of the Anti-Alliance air raids.

    In addition to the fortification area here, which allows the 23rd Division to temporarily rest and recuperate, there is also a large amount of food reserves here, which allows the 23rd Division to replenish the already empty supplies.  But now everything here has become a bubble. Except for some ammunition warehouses that survived because they were built in caves, there is nothing left. Everything has been blown up.

    But what＊s the use of just having ammunition?  Without supplies, those bullets can be used as food to fill the hungry soldiers' bellies?  Without supplies, what's the use of having more ammunition?  If supplies cannot be replenished within two days, the entire 23rd Division will be out of food.  Without food, once the Anti-Japanese Alliance pursues them, what else will the soldiers do to maintain their combat effectiveness?

    In a house that was temporarily requisitioned as the division headquarters in the Aershan mining area by Nishihara Kanji, because the Kwantung Army headquarters did nothing to alleviate its current situation and was cursing his mother, he asked the twenty-three who were currently short of food and clothing.  An even more unfortunate news came for the division.

    It was less than a day after they arrived in Aershan, and they had not yet waited for the 23rd Division to recover.  Traces of the activities of the anti-alliance forward troops were discovered outside Aershan.  These small reconnaissance troops have penetrated into the Bailang and Suhu River lines outside Aershan.

    After receiving the report from the peripheral security forces, Nishihara Kanji couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, shook his head and said to Chida Sadao: "These people came so fast. Their deployment is equivalent to cutting off our army's eastward and southward march.  The passage is clearly meant to trap us in the Aershan line. "

    "The imperial soldiers are not afraid of fighting a siege. Moreover, there are ready-made fortifications in the Aershan area that can be used. But for us now, the most difficult thing is supplies. Without food, we will starve to death even if we don't fight.  Here. Even if they want to break out, the Imperial soldiers will be so hungry that they won＊t even have the strength to stand up, even if they want to run.§

    Hearing Kanji Nishihara＊s words, compared to Kanji Nishihara who had just been transferred to the Kwantung Army for only two months, it was obvious that Kanji Nishihara was more concerned about the situation in recent years.Chida Sadao, who was more familiar with the Japanese army's anti-allied suppression campaign, could only shake his head and smile bitterly.  It really complies with the old Chinese saying of this moment and that moment.

    In these years, the Kwantung Army has been chasing the Anti-Japanese League. They are hungry and cold every day. Those who are worried about food and clothing are those who are forced by the Kwantung Army to hide in the deep mountains and old forests.  Now that everything has turned upside down, it's the Imperial soldiers' turn to worry about when their next meal will be
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