Chapter 197 Elite Southward

Undersecretary Masaki's words made everyone present, including Emperor Hirohito, nodded and echoed. Indeed, the battle of Chengde has become my heart knot. The staff headquarters and the subsequent army base camp and naval base camp have made countless private deductions. How can the result fail? Question mark

Deputy Chief Masaki looked around and saw that everyone was lost in meditation, so he began to sell his strategy and tactics and said, "I think! The Kwantung Army should be divided into three routes, with the heavy troops of seven divisions on its northern line, threatening the Chaoyang and Chifeng lines of the Rehe River. The main force quickly broke through the Shanhaiguan and entered North China to occupy Pingjin, and then from Tianjin to capture Baoding all the way to Shijiazhuang, and then instead of the north line Shanxi to attack. Taiyuan, the other way cooperated with the two divisions that landed in Qingdao to attack Jinan. The soldiers forced Xuzhou, the original hinterland, to cut off its two major arterial railways of Pinghan and Jinpu, and alerted the direction of Chengde and Zhangjiakou with the strength of no less than five divisions, making Zhang Xuewu's more than 100,000 troops alone, and our army can use Qingdao and Tianjin Port is resupply. Even if Zhang Xuewu attacks Jinzhou and wants to break our army's supply line, our army will not be affected at all. When our army's Shanghai dispatch army to occupy Shanghai and take advantage of the situation to the city, China's political axe will be forced to let Zhang Xuewu's troops withdraw and realize my first strategic concept with North China autonomy. If China's army's Zhang Xuewu Department We were ordered to retreat, and our army also surrounded and attacked on the way, eliminating the few elites of the China Political Axe Army, and then concentrated forces to expel all the Chinese forces from the south of the Yangtze River to achieve the separation of the river. After recuperation, they used China's sufficient materials to prepare to go north to compete with Soviet Russia for Siberian oil resources.

Undersecretary Masaki is an authentic Continental Army in the north. He does not agree with the complete bad friendship with the United Kingdom and the United States. If the navy advances south, it will play an irreplaceable role. In this way, the Imperial Army will be at an absolute disadvantage. As long as it goes north, it can justly strive for more resources for the expansion of the army, because In the view of Vice Minister Masaki, it is not necessary for the empire to maintain such a huge joint fleet, because the joint fleet of the empire has no rival of the same level in Asia or even the Pacific Ocean, and the joint fleet is still a large consumer, if not for its so-called oil capital. The source, that is, after occupying Manchuria and the autonomy of North China, the empire can calm down and plot a 30-year development plan and assimilate Manchuria, but now it is in the era of great changes in the world pattern. No matter who holds a huge fleet with a standard displacement of more than 2 million tons, there is no reason to sit on the sidelines.

In fact, the most critical point of Vice Minister Masaki is not to say, that is, there are too many overlapping institutions in the Japanese navy army. For example, if the Chinese dispatched army is established, then according to the establishment and composition of the Japanese army in the base camp, the Chinese dispatched army cannot command the Kwantung Army, the Taiwan army and the Chinese front fleet? The naval aviation in the Chinese fleet is under the command of the navy, while the army aviation is divided into two parts: the Kwantung Army and the Chinese dispatched army? Is it tantamount to tying your hands and feet to coerce each other like this?

But Vice Minister Masaki did not dare to say such words easily, because there were too many interests and disputes involved. Let's say that the army does not have an air force. It is said that the rights of the navy and army forces in the country have reached the top. The military and political axe is jointly controlled by the two, and the military expenses are also divided by the two. In this way, it is still If there are often irreconcilable infighting, how can we allow another person to get involved to seize power, money and resources from them? Therefore, Japan's air force can only belong to the army and the navy respectively. In fact, this greatly subverts the strategic role of the air force.

In World War II, Japan and Germany made two extreme mistakes. One was to overly despise the existence of the air force, and the other was to greatly exaggerate the role of the strategic air force. As a result, both of them suffered defeat in the end. The so-called common point of the winner is victory, and the defeat of the loser. It can be said that there are all kinds of places.

Emperor Hirohito looked at Deputy Chief Masaki and looked at Fujiwara Motoyama, Nanjiro and others and said in a low voice, "Don't you first annihilate Zhang Xuewu Corps, trap it in the desolate Rehe, Chahar and Suiyuan, separate it from the main force of the Nanjing Political Axe Army in China, and minimize its strategic role?"

Emperor Hirohito thought hard for a long time and said, "What other plans do you have? Commander-in-Chief Nanjiro, your Kwantung Army has transferred 42 divisions to participate in the initial battle. After occupying Pingjin in China, 20 to 22 divisions will be transferred to form a North China Expeditionary Army to continue the battle. I wonder how much time it will take for the Kwantung Army to completely destroy the Zhang Xuewu Corps if it invests all its troops? "

Nanjiro hesitated for a while, and his face looked a little embarrassed and said, "Your Majesty! It is not certain how much time it is necessary to completely destroy the Zhang Xuewu Legion, because the cities with the surnames of Zhangjiakou, Chengde, Chifeng and Chaoyang built by Zhang Xuewu are very difficult to conquer. Zhang Xuewu Corps is guarded by heavy troops, so that our army does not dare to cross easily, and Zhang Xuewu Corps has more than 200 subordinates. There are even more combat aircraft. Our Kwantung Army's flying division can't take any advantage at all. It also has at least 150 extremely advanced chariots and more than 300 heavy guns. In terms of heavy firepower, it is not inferior to our Kwantung Army. If you attack a city with such firepower, the casualties of our army can naturally be imagined. As for I'm afraid it's hard to estimate the time, and the railways in Rehe, Chahar, Suiyuan and other places are extremely developed. They have been under the military control of Zhang Xuewu for several years, and it is difficult for our intelligence agents to penetrate into it.

Nanjiro's words made Emperor Hirohito's face look very ugly. In the uproar, Nanjiro said angrily, "Guys! This is not the time to be angry. I said that the weapons and equipment of the imperial army of this empire have indeed been improved, and it has also been expanded from 17 standing divisions to 87 divisions, but I ask you to see clearly that our enemies are not idle. They are expanding their troops more crazily, especially those who play the role of Rehe, Chahar and Suiyuan. Zhang Xuewu is even more thrifty in buying and manufacturing a large number of arms. According to intelligence, many of his funds are flowing in from Southeast Asia. In the face of such enemies, we must treat them cautiously! We can't afford the cost of the enemy's mistakes.

Nanjiro said that a Japanese military major staff officer not far away marked the railway connecting Rehe with Chahar and Suiyuan with colorful stripes.

Emperor Hirohito looked at Vice Minister Masaki and Nanjiro. There is no doubt that Nanjiro's opinion is very important, because as the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, he is undoubtedly the most qualified. It seems that he is impatient about Zhang Xuewu. Emperor Hirohito suddenly remembered something and turned to ask Aoki beside him. He said, "I remember that the secret service department of the staff headquarters once investigated why Zhang Xuewu was so radical against the empire? Even have such a deep hatred for the empire? But what's the point?"

Aoki Doichi was stunned by Emperor Hirohito. Ono Izumi, who was in charge of intelligence affairs, was not qualified to attend the imperial meeting today to investigate Zhang Xuewu's hatred. Aoki Doichi just heard of it. Since His Majesty asked, if he didn't say it or didn't know, wouldn't he know? Is it a dereliction of duty?

Aoki Dao frowned slightly and said, "Your Majesty! It is said that he may have been beaten and bullied by Japanese students in Imperial Tokyo when he was a child, which led to Zhang Xuewu's extreme hatred!"

"Fack!" Emperor Hirohito patted the table angrily, and the absent-minded generals cheered up and condemned Zhang Xuewu's narrow-mindedness and so on. As a result, Emperor Hirohito blushed, because Emperor Hirohito originally wanted to scold which bastard had to bully Zhang Xuewu? If Zhang Xuewu can fall to the empire, even if it remains neutral, the empire can save the lives of at least 100,000 soldiers and countless materials and ammunition.

Just as the Japanese was making the final deployment for the imminent war, Zhang Xuewu transferred one brigade from each of the five subordinate divisions, and set up a temporary division of the Rehe Army with these five brigades, the honorary force! Two reinforced heavy artillery brigades equipped with 72 150 mm heavy guns, and an assault brigade equipped with 70 jackal tanks and 100 hound armored vehicles were transferred from the mechanized division of Tang Ziqiang, which was commanded by the brigade commander Chen Yuxing and the chief of staff Li Yunfeng.

In this way, this honorary army and logistics support personnel reached 35,000 people. This army can be said to be the bone and blood of the Rehe Legion, together with a deportation fleet of the Air Force equipped with 36 FB-109 fighters to Nanjing at the same time.

In the previous year, Zhang Xuewu had sent a large amount of ammunition and a small amount of weapons to Nanjing in batches. This time, Zhang Xuewu's big move made many people very confused? Chiang Kai-shek, who was preparing to train the officer corps in Lushan, was also very confused? Because there are about 500 Huangpu officers who came with the team. Their name is to participate in the Lushan Officer Training Regiment? Coupled with Zhang Xuewu's performance in the Double Twelve Incident, Chiang Kai-shek was still very worried about Zhang Xuewu for the time being.

Zhang Xueliang, who followed him back to Nanjing, has now become another problem for Chiang Kai-shek. Except for the two armies compiled by Zhang Xuewu, the rest of the old troops of the Northeast Army have been demoted to the B army according to the B case, but his cousin Zhang Xuewu still holds more than 100,000 troops under the banner of the central political axe. Zhang Xueliang Finally, he handed over his elite direct line and heavy guns, machine guns and precious metals to Zhang Xuewu, and the meaning was naturally needless to be detailed.

This made Chiang Kai-shek, who was trying to punish Zhang Xueliang, hesitate. Is it obviously inappropriate to arrange him to go abroad? Under the persuasion of his wife Song Meiling, Chiang Kai-shek finally decided to show his generosity and let Zhang Xueliang serve as a special adviser in the General Staff Department!

(to be continued)