From to 1935 2020

At the same time, in a tavern in the port of Yokohama, Japan, Neiji Okamura, who had just resigned, accompanied his old friend Toshishiro Obata while drinking dull wine, while expressing indignation.

Toshishiro Obata sarcastically said: "This is a plan that anyone with a bit of a brain will know is nonsense!"

In fifteen days, the Japanese army did not even have enough time to transport their troops to the Songhu area.In fact, this plan failed from the moment Li Runshi made up his mind to "replace" Chen Jitang in Nanjing at all costs. (Note: In history, even for a waste like Chang Kaishen, the Nanjing Defense War lasted twelve days.)

"People in the base camp saw that Li Runshi went south to support Chen Jitang. They were anxious and afraid, and then they forced the combat staff to come up with a plan. When Li Runshi made the decision to throw hundreds of thousands of Red Army troops to Nanjing to fight a war of attrition with us, we I will lose! So no matter what plan I make, it is actually doomed to fail. So I deliberately made such an "expert" plan that is impossible to realize at first sight... What I hope is that they choose the first The second plan is to give up attacking Nanjing."

Neiji Okamura smashed the table bitterly and said:

"My first plan was already very stupid, but I didn't expect anyone to be even stupider than the stupidest plan I made on purpose!"

Neiji Okamura rejected Yongren's idea of ​​"combining the two plans". After the Yuqian lost his composure, he had a big fight with Yongren on purpose - he saw the fate of Ishihara Waner, Okamura Ningji didn't want to take the blame for himself after a big defeat in the future, so he simply took the opportunity to show his attitude and get away.If it was the time of Emperor Hirohito, Neiji Okamura would not have the courage to do so, but Yongren's prestige is far inferior to that of his dead brother.

After resigning, Okamura Ningji, who was in a depressed mood, went to his old friend to drink and complain, but learned that the other party came to Yokohama——Toshishiro Obata came to Yokohama to receive the second batch of 15 rifles just shipped from Germany.Historically, the Japanese army did not begin to import large quantities of firearms from Germany and Italy until the second year (a total of 20 pieces), but in this plane, they urgently ordered firearms from Germany and Italy in the third month. The embarrassment can be imagined . (Historically, the Japanese army confiscated [-] rifles in Songhu alone, of which [-] rifles were confiscated from the Jinling Factory alone, and most of them were damaged and awaiting repair.)

"Because of your bastard plan, the five regiments of domestic divisions with insufficient training time will be sent to China within a month. They are equipped with German rifles. In the past, we still had a quality advantage over the Red Army, etc. After the battle of Nanjing is over, this advantage will be gone in the end.”

Toshishiro Obata also drank with Neji Okamura with a gloomy face. The two old devils are shrewd people, but the shrewder they are, the more desperate they are.Both of them knew that neither the first plan nor the second plan could save Japan.

Neiji Okamura smiled bitterly and said, "The faster you lose, the less you lose."

"It can be seen that you still have some expectations..."

Toshishiro Obata turned his head and looked towards the direction of the port through the window. Due to the high terrain of his tavern, he could see several cargo ships moored in Yokohama Port.

Toshishiro Obata said:

"This morning, there was a rice commotion here in Yokohama. Those who were robbed were rice that had just been harvested and was about to be exported overseas."

"There was a rice commotion right after the harvest?"

"The people who rob rice are all urbanites. They have been defeated in successive battles, and taxes have been raised continuously. They can't live on."

Toshishiro Obata said, he, who was in charge of the reserves, saw things more clearly than Neiji Okamura.

"You can't grab anything in China, so you have to go inside and grab your own citizens!"

Okamura Ningji said: "Inner volume? The words used in Huang Ke's book are very appropriate metaphors."

Then he sighed and said, "I got the news that after the battle in Songhu, the troops on the front line killed, burned and looted all the way. The military discipline is extremely bad. Such actions will only trigger stronger resistance from the Chinese people."

Toshishiro Obata snorted, "You've woken up from your dream, why bother so much? Keep yourself safe, and be careful not to be hanged as a scapegoat after the defeat of the empire in the future. Your second plan is enough to get you hanged." "

Neiji Okamura picked up the wine glasses on the table and drank a double, and then hummed: "As long as the locust army doesn't go crazy and provoke the Americans, the CCP and the Soviet Union will not be able to invade Japan. It's okay to try me and kill my head." easy."

Toshishiro Obata rolled his eyes at him, and said coldly: "Europe has been in chaos recently, and Germany has reached out to Austria. Now the whole of Europe is talking about the merger between Germany and Austria."

Neiji Okamura, who was already three points drunk, lost most of his alcohol after hearing this.

"You mean, Europe is about to go to war?"

Obata Toshishiro said: "The Austrian Prime Minister is still resisting, desperately opposing the merger of Germany and Austria, but Hitler's penetration into Austria is too deep, and he was once an Austrian."

Neiji Okamura snorted, "Europe is too far away from us. If there is a war, it will probably take a few more months."

"Not for the time being. France is in a mess, and the British don't even dare to stop us from going to war in Songhu, they can only acquiesce, appease, appease, this will be the mainstream in the next few years!"

At this moment, both of them remembered the war predictions made by Huang Ke and Stalin successively.Ningji Okamura said unwillingly:

"If only the European War could have started two years earlier..."

At this time, Toshishiro Obata thought, if Japan could turn to the United States at this time and do the dirty work for them, would it be possible to earn some wolves from the Americans.

-------------------- Chapter 251 Total Anti-Japanese War--------------------

"Finally, I can leave the quagmire of Jidong!"

On September [-], after receiving the "transfer outside the customs" order from the Tokyo base camp, Hayao Tada, commander of the North China Front Army, let out a breath of relief.

He succeeded Inaba Shiro who was killed on the banks of the Xianghe River at the end of May and became the official commander of the North China Front Army.Prior to this, in order to cover up the big scandal that "two consecutive commanders" died unexpectedly, the Japanese side refused to assume the identity of Commander Shiro Inaba.From the day Hayao Tada took office at the end of May, the Jidong he took over was a red-hot charcoal fire.

The Soviet Red Army hoarded hundreds of thousands of troops on the border of Heilongjiang, and launched a round of offensives every one or two months, forcing Japan to concentrate more than [-]% of its troops in North Manchuria, and the remaining troops were unable to launch active attacks at all. Li Runshi's Red Army, who was preparing for war in Hebei, could only shrink back to protect itself.Fighting on two fronts, the pain of being unable to care about the head and the tail made the Japanese army be in a strategically extremely passive state from the day the war started.

If time could be turned back, the group of people in the Tokyo base camp must hope to go back to last year's general mobilization to invade China and honestly give up their fantasy of invading China.Now, including Hayao Tada, any reasonable Japanese know that the war of aggression against China has failed.

Since May, the Red Army, which has established a base in Yanshan, has continued to enter the plains from the mountains and attack the weak nodes in the eastern Hebei region.With the full support of Stalin, the Communist partisans did not lack artillery.The Yanshan guerrilla force with more than 2 people dispersed in regiments and battalions.They pulled out the strongholds in the east of Hebei, and attacked the weak points of the Japanese defense everywhere.From the end of May to the beginning of September, an average of hundreds of "attacks on the imperial army" occurred every day.

Only five months later, Tada Hayao gave up hope for this endless law and order battle. After half a year, the Japanese army lost nearly one and a half piecemeal in the endless law and order battle. The troops of the division.

"Because I lost badly in the previous bets, do I need to gamble more aggressively?"

Taking the combat telegram sent by the Tokyo base camp and knowing the mission objectives of the next stage, Hayao Tada smiled bitterly.

When he came to Tangshan to clean up the mess at the end of May, one of the tasks Tada Jun received was to review the "dereliction of duty" of Xiangyue Qingsi, the former commander of the North China Garrison Army.Tada Hayao is actually very clear that it was correct for Kozuki Kiyoji to stay still in the early stage, but after the big defeat, both Sakagaki Seishiro and Inaba Shiro died, and the dead were charged with the big crime, while the living Kozuki Kiyoji took the rest of the blame .

Tada Hayao talked with Kazuki Kiyoji, and knew that it was his old classmate Neiji Okamura's suggestion that he stay still.

"Ningji Okamura is a smart man. He resigned at this time, is he taking refuge? With such a strategic plan, there will be more and more unbrained red deer in the military department."

Okamura Neiji refused to make "two plans into one" as a plan, but "Jinghe Military Headquarters" has never lacked ambitious people with ulterior motives. If he doesn't do it, someone will naturally do it.

On September [-]th, they received instructions from the base camp to withdraw from Shanhaiguan. In the next few days, the Japanese troops in the entire eastern Hebei region gradually concentrated on the railway, and then retreated along the railway to outside the customs.Before the evacuation, this group of devils killed, burned and looted everywhere in the controlled area, with no humanity at all, leaving a piece of scorched earth for the Red Army who went north to recover the lost ground.

Although Tada Jun also understands that the final result of doing this is that when the Japanese army comes to Jidong in the future, the civilians here will inevitably die with the Japanese army, but he has no choice. He was given priority to supply the North Manchurian garrison. His North China Front Army stayed in the east of Jidong for half a year. From spring to autumn harvest, the troops did not change their outfits for half a year.Food and so on can only be expropriated on the spot, and the excessive expropriation is to attract the local civilians to support the Red Army more resolutely.

By September 21, the last Japanese army withdrew from Shanhaiguan, and eastern Jidong was occupied and liberated by the following Red Army.However, the five divisions that Jun Tada withdrew from outside the customs did not all go north to support the Japanese army on the "anti-Soviet" front in northern Manchuria. Four of the divisions, following an order from the headquarters, boarded directly at Qinhuangdao Port and went south on [-] On the [-]st, the first batch of Japanese troops from Qinhuangdao landed in Qingdao, Shandong.

During this period, the Japanese army also had a concession garrison in Qingdao.After the Battle of Huainan, Han Fuqu ostensibly joined the Northern Anti-Japanese Alliance led by the Red Army, but in fact he was terrified of the Red Army in his heart. He kept resisting the Red Army's entry into Shandong, and then the Japanese killed them.

The Shandong invasion plan formulated by the base camp was originally written by Ningji Okamura. The content was to land the four divisions of the North China Front Army in Qingdao, Shandong, and then go south all the way through the railway line to capture a large number of cities and villages from the coast to the Yangtze River. .Don't be greedy for land, fight while grabbing, sweeping all the way south.

Compared with fighting in the south until the end of September, the five divisions attacking Nanjing have not yet seen the city wall of Nanjing, and the battle in Shandong has gone quite smoothly.Han Fuqu's 20 guards in Shandong collapsed abnormally, and his battles continued to fail. After only half a month, Han Fuqu lost [-]% of his main force, and the rest were chased around like ducks by the Japanese army.

Unlike the history of fighting all the way and occupying all the way, the Japanese army in this plane, because they were restrained by the Soviet Union, [-]% of their troops were attracted to the Northeast.Although the Jinghe staff officers in the Tokyo base camp were greedy, but knowing that they could give very limited support, the tragic lesson of Tada Hayao's division of troops in the Tongzhou Battle came first. Instead, like his ancestors, the Japanese pirates, he attacked cities and looted land all the way.Wherever its troops went, they gnawed away the local area like locusts.

The news came that the Japanese army from eastern Jidong had landed in Shandong by sea. Zhang Xueliang, who finally had a nest in the Lianghuai area, was the most nervous. He had to stop supporting Nanjing and shrink to protect himself. At the same time, with another "Shandong native", Wang Yaowu's "Reorganized 51st Division" also formed a coalition army during this period, preparing to resist the Japanese troops going south on the front lines of northern Jiangsu and southern Shandong.

The Japanese were already fighting on the third front, and their biggest opponent in China, Li Runshi, sent some troops to eastern Hebei to regain lost ground, while another part of the troops marched to Shandong during this period. The main purpose of the mission was to occupy the countryside. Containing the attacking Japanese army from the rear.

The war lasted until the beginning of October. While Tada Hayao, who cared nothing about his head and tail, led [-] devil soldiers to wreak havoc everywhere in Shandong, the Japanese army who attacked Nanjing City still did not see the city wall of Nanjing.At this time, the total number of divisions invested by the Japanese army in the surrounding areas of Nanjing has reached as many as eight divisions.In the early days, Yongren was reluctant to send so many troops into Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but after encountering the "elastic" defense line established by the Communist army based on rivers and hills, the troops attacking Nanjing continued to make slow progress and had to keep increasing their troops.

The Red Army's flexible defensive tactics were first encountered by the Japanese in the Battle of Bailing Temple, but it was only a prototype at that time. What really shined was when the Japanese troops of the [-]st and [-]th Divisions blocked the aid on the Tongzhou battlefield.

The tactical method is very simple to say, the two lines of defense are deliberately built very close together. When the Japanese army attacked, the troops on the first line of defense in front retreated after killing a large number of enemy troops. When the Japanese army occupied the position, they concentrated all the artillery. Onslaught, the tank strikes, pushes it back.

In such a situation, the Japanese army who attacked Nanjing experienced the pain of Inaba Shiro in the following months.

-------------------- Chapter 252 Jing and the howling of the defeated dog ------------------

"Just yesterday, the 4th Division just captured Chunhua Town, and tomorrow we should be able to see the city walls of Nanjing."

"It's a distance of one hundred li, they walked for nearly a month, what a speed!"

"Li Runshi's attitude in defending Nanjing was unprecedentedly resolute. To be precise, he was determined to fight a meat-grinding opportunity in Nanjing. Taking advantage of China's large population, he exchanged two for one and three for one. Exchange with the Locust Kingdom!"

"The current international situation is very clear. Stalin is determined to support the CCP to the end. Up to now, on the road between Mongolia and Baotou, the trucks supporting the CCP are still running non-stop! I got the news from Siberia. The branch railway to Mongolia has been repaired, and now this railway is continuously extending to the border between China and Mongolia. In order to speed up the process of this railway, the CCP has mobilized more than [-] migrant workers from China to cross the border into Mongolia to help build the road. "

"Aren't those Mongolians afraid that the CCP will take the opportunity to annex Mongolia? Stalin's support for the CCP is too great, which is very abnormal."

"Mongolia is just a pawn for Lucia. Now Li Runshi's China has demonstrated greater value than Mongolia. Stalin, a naked realist, naturally abandoned them!"

In the tone of a resentful woman, the three people who gathered together to discuss the situation of China, Japan and the Soviet Union were Toshiro Obata, who was demoted after the [-] deeds. Neiji Okamura, Shiro's deputy, trained recruits, and Wanji Ishihara, who was humiliatingly demoted to the rank of major after the defeat of Bailingmiao, and only recently regained the rank of major general.

Among the defeated trio, Toshishiro Obata is a Russian hand, and Okamura and Ishihara are both "China handy". The common feature of the three is that they are now serving as "senior officials" in the Japanese reserve force. Another common point is that they all He was driven here "for making a mistake".

The elites of the Showa staff, as long as they are not in their positions, can think with their brains instead of their butts. They are not stupid. They are drinking in a restaurant in Tokyo. People with "brains" are all concentrated here now.

Toshishiro Obata said depressedly: "It's already October [-]th, and Lucia's offensive hasn't shown signs of stopping yet."

"After the beginning of spring, the cars that drove into Baotou from Mongolia were full of people when they returned. According to statistics from China's intelligence network, at least 16 people left Baotou by car and went north into Mongolia through that road. To build the railway, we need Are there so many workers? Battle reports came from North Manchuria. A large number of Chinese soldiers participated in Zhukov’s offensive as the main force. The numbers that can be found on the front line are four divisions. About 4 people."

Ishihara smiled and slammed the table and said, he just came back from the Soviet-Japanese confrontation front line in Northern Manchuria, and he knows the real battle situation there very well.Ishihara Waner is a well-known expert on China issues, and he has a very good understanding of the situation in Northeast China.He was sent to the Northeast because Japan was tortured to the point of collapse by the Soviets' "relying on the advantage of national strength" style of play, and rushed to the doctor to treat Ishihara Waner, who had created a miracle in Mongolia Heroes" were sent to put out the fire.

However, the Soviet Red Army is currently playing the "steel cluster" violent style of cannons and tanks in this tactics. Can stare.As for the anti-Japanese guerrillas that have been reactivated in the three northeastern provinces, they are also becoming "unresolvable chronic diseases"-as long as the Soviet Union continues to support the CCP openly, no matter how many anti-Japanese groups are strangled by the "security forces" in North Manchuria in the rear The troops, Li Runshi in the south, can pass through the Baotou Mongolian communication line, and send more troops to Sumeng and send them to the northeast.

Ishihara smiled and lowered his head, glanced at Neiji Okamura, and sighed:

"Mr. Okamura, according to your suggestion, after abandoning Jidong and exiting Shanhaiguan, the corruption in Jidong is turning into corruption in Rehe! The troops of Lin Husan and Xu Zijing are now using Jidong as their forward base and infiltrating into Rehe. I am copying what I did in East Jidong to Rehe."

Neiji Okamura put on a dark face, glared at Ishihara and said with a smile: "I'm just wiping the ass of my predecessors!"

Shi Yuan Waner knew that the other party was ironic, and said in a low voice, "I said a long time ago that swallowing Northeast China is fat, but touching North China is swallowing bombs."

Neiji Okamura snorted, "Hundred Soul Temple..."

Shi Yuan smiled and said bitterly: "That is Suiyuan, and it is to cut off the CCP's international communication line! The CCP has been able to continue to obtain arms supplies until now, it is because of this channel!"

Then he said with great annoyance: "We should have sent a reorganized division to capture there. We underestimated the CCP."

Neiji Okamura mocked: "You mean you plan to send the Sixth Division there ahead of time?"

Toshishiro Obata interrupted: "Okay, Okamura-kun, the situation is already extremely bad, and it won't change if you quarrel. Let Ishihara-kun finish talking about the situation in Beiman first."

Both Ishihara Wanji and Okamura Ningji were angry, and then Ishihara Wanji began to talk about the battle in North Manchuria.

The September "Autumn Harvest" offensive of the Lucians was more ferocious than the previous two.In the first six months of the war, the Japanese army still had an advantage in the quality of individual soldiers compared to the Soviet Red Army.However, in the past six months, the front troops of the Soviet Red Army were gaining experience through actual combat, while the reserve troops resting at the rear stepped up their training while absorbing the experience passed back from the front.

Stalin, who was already preparing for the Soviet-German war four years later, had almost no "war intervention" with the front-line generals, but he was very strict about the training of the reserve troops in the rear, asking all kinds of questions all day long.

After half a year of intensified training, the quality of soldiers in the Far East Front Army has improved a lot. On the contrary, the Japanese army on the opposite side has been expanding its army crazily, but its overall quality has dropped a lot. At the beginning of the three rounds of battle, the quality of soldiers had almost no advantage over the Soviet Red Army.

"For the troops on the front line, we fired one shell, and the Lucians on the opposite side fired ten shells. Really, really..."

Ishihara Waner closed his eyes, recalling the scene he saw when he was on the front line.

"The armored vehicles of the Lucians are too many, too many! They are densely packed, like locusts..."

When he said this, Ishihara Wanji showed a look of fear in his eyes.With Stalin's full support, Zhukov has maintained a terrifying number of [-] to [-] tanks on the front line in North Manchuria-of course, these tanks were not put on the battlefield at one time, but formed echelon offensive waves.With enough tanks, enough reserves, and enough logistics trucks, the Soviet Armored Forces Group headed by Zhukov fully grasped the initiative on the battlefield and could attack or retreat at any time.

Since Huang Ke revealed the history to Stalin, in the past nine months, the Soviet Union produced only 3000 tanks (about [-] in this year in history), and more than half of the tanks produced were new models. Tanks, half of the idle production capacity is used to produce trucks, and the rest is to manufacture newly developed first-generation armored personnel carriers.

"Compared to the previous two rounds of attacks, this time the Lucians put in a large number of full-track armored personnel carriers and charged directly with the chariots."

The "full-track armored personnel carrier" mentioned by Wanji Ishihara is the first generation of armored personnel carriers developed by the Soviet Red Army after Huang Keti's suggestion. It is similar to the M113 armored personnel carrier—it uses all-steel armor instead of aluminum and magnesium. Alloy Armor.Compared with similar products of Midi in the future, the car weighs 12 tons, can carry eight people (3+5), and has a maximum speed of 35 kilometers per hour.Its armor is only enough to resist machine gun bullets and shell fragments, but it can follow the tanks to charge and assault, and it caused a great shock to the Japanese army on the front line in North Manchuria.

In addition, there is another new weapon, the T50 tank, which also appeared on the Beiman battlefield.The 50-ton T60 was classified as a "light tank" by the Soviet Red Army, but in the eyes of the Japanese army, it was already a medium tank or even a heavy tank.And another T[-] position breakthrough metamorphosis with the weight of "light tank" and heavy tank protection was also manufactured and used by the Soviet army in large numbers.

"When I came back, the imperial army was in the northwest direction of the Soviet-Manchurian border, and all the strategic points were occupied by Lucia. The front line was defeated for a hundred miles. Qiqihar, which was close to Mongolia, was lost, Daxing'anling was completely lost, and Heihe was captured. At this time, Longzhen (Beian) should have been lost."

Neiji Okamura and Toshishiro Obata knew about the collapse of the Northeast War, but to what extent the collapse occurred, they were kicked out of the military headquarters because of all kinds of false reports and intentional delays by the red deer of the Kwantung Army. The first-hand definite news, until Ishihara Waner, a person who came here, brought back the first-hand news, did he find out the situation.

When Ishihara Wan'er told the situation on the front line, the other two old devils took out the map and spread it out for a look, and they immediately gasped.The entire Suilandao area was almost lost, and nearly one-third of the Heilongjiang Province territory had completely fallen into the hands of the Soviet army.

"There are even more terrifying things. The CCP has added the Northeast Front Army, Yang Jingyu is the commander, and Li Runshi has transferred many officers and cadres from the south to North Manchuria, where he is building an advanced base. In addition to the 10,000+ reinforcements I mentioned earlier After they entered North Manchuria, in addition to helping the Lucias militarily, they were also responsible for public security and logistical tasks. All the areas connected to the Lucia army were in turmoil among the local people. A large number of civilians took the initiative to seek refuge with the Lucias or provide information , or drag the family to join in, what's more, even internally and externally cooperate to launch a riot..."

The domino effect caused by consecutive defeats not only affected the mainland of Japan, but also the Northeast, especially in Heilongjiang and Rehe.When the autumn harvest season came in September, in order to make up for the losses on the front line, the Japanese raids in the Northeast were also extremely vicious. The consequence was to arouse the local Chinese residents' stronger will to resist.

In the past, the Japanese army was so powerful that civilians could not resist and could only swallow their anger, but now the "two" Red Army came to fight.Seeing the hope, the whole province of Heilongjiang immediately turned against it.