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Text Chapter 462 The Prisoner¡¯s Dilemma

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    Since last year's battle ended in a disastrous defeat for the Kwantung Army and the railway connecting Hailar Binzhou was cut off, the supply of the 23rd Division and the 8th Border Guard Corps has fallen into a situation where the supply is worse than the previous month.  With the railway line as the main means of transportation interrupted, the Kwantung Army, which could only rely on roads for supplies, always lacked a sufficient number of trucks.

    This disadvantage was already exposed as early as the Battle of Nomenhan.  However, domestic production capacity is limited, and new divisions are constantly being formed, so the Kwantung Army's shortage of trucks has not been fundamentally changed.  Especially when the Kwantung Army lost almost two-thirds of its trucks in last year's battle, it was simply unable to devote a sufficient number of trucks to ensure the supply of the 23rd Division.

    The supply line on the road from Aershan to Hailar was often interrupted by anti-Japanese air raids, and the limited number of transport trucks were often destroyed in convoys on the road.  It is no exaggeration to describe the limited supplies sent to Hyrule as a drop in the bucket for a complete division and a large number of attached troops.

    If it can meet two-thirds or even half of the normal consumption of the 23rd Division, Kanji Nishihara and the former division commander will burn incense.  But even this standard has never been met.  And as the intensity of the anti-alliance air raids continued to intensify, by the end of last month, all supplies were completely cut off.

    Especially for the gasoline used by the chariot troops, even the inventory has been exhausted.  The original strategic grain reserves were not well supplied to the rear. In order to ensure the daily needs of the large number of Japanese and puppet troops in the entire Hung Yen North Province and the daily consumption of Japanese expatriates, they had long since bottomed out.

    The daily food ration for each unit of the 23rd Division has dropped to two-thirds of the Army's standard, and can barely maintain half of it.  If the consumption in Hailar continues, within a few days the entire Japanese and puppet troops in Hung Yen North Province and all Japanese overseas Chinese will be out of food.

    In fact, this time the 23rd Division retreated from Hailar, the food they carried at all times was not only part of the original strategic reserves, but also a considerable part of the food they had robbed from the local people during the massacre.  If you don't eat it, in their eyes they can only use cornmeal as feed, and the rest are biscuits in the strategic reserve.

    As for the rice balls made of mixed rice and barley, which are the favorite foods of army soldiers, they have not dared to think about it for a long time.  Although the Japanese Army has always been relatively tolerant of coarse food, their daily staple food is mainly rice, white flour and other fine grains, mixed with a small amount of barley.  And whether you can eat enough and what kind of food you eat is completely different.

    Facing the somewhat gloomy Kanji Nishihara, Major General Chida Sadao didn¡¯t know what to do.  On the Aershan front line, the ammunition problem can be effectively solved, but the food problem has become an urgent matter.  Even a fool knows that there is no food inside, no reinforcements outside, and no necessary fire support.

    ¡°Continuing to stay on the Aershan front line, even if there are some fortifications to rely on, is tantamount to courting death.  Without food, everything is out of the question.  Everything that can be lost has been lost along the way, and almost everything that cannot be lost has been lost.  Food was insufficient in Hylar, not to mention that the original two-day trip was stretched to nearly four days due to bombing.

    Each squadron that ran to the Aershan front line basically had no weapons above the heavy machine gun left, grenade launchers remained one-third of the original number, and the number of light machine guns was relatively complete.  Although they don't carry much ammunition, only 120 rounds of basic ammunition carried by each person, some can be replenished in Aershan.

    Although there are no heavy weapons in the munitions warehouse in Aershan, there is still a considerable amount of light weapons and ammunition in reserve.  Even heavy machine guns and 92 infantry guns can be replenished in the Aershan inventory of weapons.  Although the original establishment number cannot be restored, it can at least be effectively supplemented.  But the food that I brought with me when I set out was basically gone.

    Even if the 23rd Division scrapes three feet of ground in the Aershan area, it may not be able to produce enough food for the entire division for two days.  This was only managed by changing the pig and dog food that all the workers eat to the imperial army.  Even this cannot guarantee the supply of all officers and soldiers of the entire division for three days.

    According to Lieutenant Colonel Higuchi Shiro, the division¡¯s military medical director, these so-called sorghum rice, acorn noodles, and corn noodles are simply not suitable for the Japanese physique.  Imperial soldiers who are accustomed to eating rice and barley may have adverse reactions after eating it.

    Not to mention that most of these so-called grains are still moldy.  Even if you eat it reluctantly, it may cause poisoning of soldiers, which will cause serious non-combat attrition.  In the eyes of the Japanese, the Northeastern Chinese, whom they call Manchurians, are not human beings, and the Chinese people in Guannei, whom they call Chinese people, are even less human.

    But these Japanese people have little idea about their ownI have always cherished life.  Although many times, when necessary, the lives of ordinary soldiers and low-level officers are taken equally seriously.  But right now, what the 23rd Division should do most is how to restore the division's morale and combat effectiveness.

    If this kind of food is really distributed to the troops, the result will only be that the already low morale will be even lower, which may be counterproductive.  But apart from these, where can we find food to feed more than ten thousand mouths in the 23rd Division?  But it became the 23rd Division, and of course it was the most urgent matter for the Eighth Border Guard Corps, which he was connected to.

    Major General Chida Sadao looked at the map. The situation in front of him made him, who was always known to be quick-witted, at a loss for a moment.  What worries Major General Chida Sadao even more is that once the Anti-Japanese Alliance really seizes the White Wolf front line, it will be equivalent to strangulating the neck of the 23rd Division and cutting off the 23rd Division's southward retreat route.

    The current situation is an embarrassing dilemma for the 23rd Division and the 8th Border Guard, with no way to defend and no way to retreat.  It had been a while since Major General Chida Sadao graduated from the Army Sergeant School, but this was the first time he had seen such a complicated situation before him.

    But after all, he was a staff officer, and Major General Chida Sadao had many more evil ideas than Nishihara Kanji.  Since going south and east was no longer feasible, Chida Sadao turned his attention to the west of the map.  After a long silence, Chida Sadao raised his head and made a bold suggestion to Nishihara Kanji: "Your Excellency, the current situation is quite unfavorable to us. Judging from the current situation, we are in a dilemma."

    "War, there is neither food nor reinforcements nor heavy fire support. Standing still and waiting for reinforcements is not a good choice for us at the moment. Although Lieutenant General Kimura Hy¨­taro, Chief of Staff, has agreed to use all means to supplement us  Supplies. But under the attack of the Anti-Alliance ground and air firepower, even if these supplies can be delivered in the shortest time, how many of them will be in our hands?"

    "Leaving, I'm afraid, is not a good choice. Now that the forward troops of the Anti-Japanese Alliance have appeared on the White Wolf line in the south, their main force should not be far away. And the number of enemy troops rushing towards us is  We don¡¯t have any information about how much it is or what its equipment is like.¡±

    "Maybe, an ambush is waiting for us on our southward retreat route. As a soldier of the Japanese Empire, I have nothing to fear. But if the problem of supplies cannot be solved, we will have no way to fight this war.  Fight. We can't let our soldiers go hungry and fight against a well-equipped army, right?"

    "Division Commander, I have a suggestion to face the current situation. You see, most of the Mongolian troops stationed opposite the Aershan have been transferred and have entered the hinterland of North Hung Yen Province. The strength of the Mongolian troops opposite the Aershan is currently abnormal.  The emptiness. The Bayinbur area just opposite the Aershan is one of the strategic supply points of the so-called Soviet-Mongolian coalition's eastern cluster."

    "In order to fight the Kwantung Army, the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces have stored a large amount of ammunition and food there. Although the Russian ammunition does not matter, the food there is what we urgently need. If we take advantage of the Mongolian army's lack of strength and head west  After capturing the front line of Bayinbur Land and obtaining strategic supplies, without making any stops, we immediately turn around and return to Manchuria. The possibility of success is still very high.¡±

    "Although the Soviet army has stationed an armored group on the front line of Qiaoba Mountain, according to our intelligence, most of its troops have been transferred westward. The remaining troops will definitely not pose much of a threat to us. And when they come from  When troops from other places arrived, we would have already withdrawn into Manchuria."

    "And for us, in addition to food and possible enemy ambush threats on the southward retreat route, the biggest threat is the aviation force of the Anti-Alliance. If we pass through Mongolia, we can not only obtain supplies from the Mongolian army to supplement our own.  It can avoid falling into the siege of the Anti-Alliance.¡±

    "The most important thing is that their aviation force, which poses the greatest threat to us, has also lost its role. Whether they are ground troops or aviation units, they will never dare to enter Mongolia to pursue us. Because as a force also supported by Soviet Russia, they have no  The one who had the guts to attack the tiger¡¯s head.¡±

    "Outer Mongolia is now under the jurisdiction of Soviet Russia. Because the Mongols have been under the jurisdiction of the Manchu Qing government in China for hundreds of years, Soviet Russia's precautions against the Chinese are far superior to the Kwantung Army. As a single-handed supporter of Soviet Russia  At least they can¡¯t afford to anger Moscow yet.¡±

    "Your Excellency, Division Commander, the remnants of the Twelfth Division also evacuated to North Korea via Soviet Russia during the battle, avoiding heavy losses. As for later, Soviet Russia only protested. But for the Kwantung Army, it was  One guaranteedWell trained troops.  The situation in Europe is now only worse than last year.  Soviet Russia will not put most of its energy on the Eastern Front.  "

    "The most fundamental thing is that we are just taking advantage of the road this time to raise some military supplies. We are not trying to occupy Mongolia. As long as we don't stay in Mongolia for too long and make a quick victory, the Russians who no longer have the energy to go east are  I won¡¯t mind it too much. The Russians will not go into full-scale war with the empire in this situation.¡±
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