Chapter 297 The Opportunity of the Final Battle

"The Second Front Army is under the jurisdiction of the 10th Division, the 22nd Division, the 35th Division and the 36th Division. The commander of the Front Army is Lianjie Isoya. The Third Front Army has jurisdiction over the 6th Division, the 14th Division, the 23rd Division, the 38th Division and the 39th Division, of which the 23rd Division is a mechanized division. The commander of the regiment is Fengwen at the foot of the mountain. In addition, within two years, the reserve forces will set up 18 mixed brigades for the security tasks in the occupied areas of North China and Central China.

After reading it, Ishihara Guaner slowly put down the command document. Suddenly, there was an uproar in the battle conference room. Gu Shoufu stared at Fengwen at the foot of the big fat man not far away with a gloomy face and a vicious look? Have all the small characters climbed to the top of these old qualifications? Kenji Tobihara, who has been looking forward to it, is also empty and happy? The expression is extremely embarrassing and depressed!

Rensuke Isotani, who felt a little confused, didn't expect that he would unexpectedly become the commander of the front army? Isn't that the same level as Tada Jun and others in the position? This is really good news! Huozhou Libing himself had an expression of giving up. For a moment, the conference room of the Combat Command of the Kwantung Army became a vegetable market. Ishihara frowned unhappily, while Kenji Ueda, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, was still closing his eyes, as if these things had nothing to do with him at all?

After a long time, after the generals present seemed to have vented their dissatisfaction and anger, Ueda Kenji slowly opened his eyes as if he had slept? After looking around, Ueda Qianji said, "Our Kwantung Army and the Chinese dispatched army are at the same level as the general army, and it is normal to have three front armies. The decision to choose the commander of the front army is the decision of the imperial meeting. Do you have any objection?"

Ueda Kenji's words stunned all the people present. Ueda Kenji hummed and said, "The emperor [***] people were born to serve the emperor. For the future of the empire, they did not hesitate to break their bones, and fought here for fame and fortune? It's better to pay more attention to how to solve the 10th Theater of the China Army. This time, the formation between the Kwantung Army and the two front armies of Central China and North China has changed so much, which has a lot to do with it. In particular, a number of B divisions with weak combat effectiveness have been abolished, which is also a reminder for the gentlemen here! "

After all, Kenji Ueda is the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, and the division commanders of his subordinates have restrained a lot. The three newly promoted commanders of the front army also seem to be much more modest than before. After all, the three of them are now standing on the forefront of the storm. Old-qualified division commanders such as Gu Shoufu and Kenji Tufeihara have been looking forward to it for a long time. Location, Gu Shoufu's 6th Division performed extremely poorly in the Battle of Nanjing. It was a great gift that he did not transfer him to the reserve. However, Kenji Dohihara, who had performed well in North China before, seemed a little depressed. You should know that at this moment, Meizu Mijiro and Ningji Okamura of the North China Front are just military commanders. It's still a little far from the commander of the front army. Now I didn't expect that guys like Shuzhou Libing, Isotani Rensuke, and even Yamashita Fengwen could become the commander of the front army? Are those guys in the imperial meeting of the base camp and the staff headquarters crazy?

Speaking of which, Yamashita Fengwen, who is 53 years old, is not a young lieutenant general, but his information is different from that of an ordinary division commander is that he has been a civilian until 1930, and did not take office as the captain of the Third Infantry Wing for the first time.

At that time, Yamashita Fengwen, who served as a practical position in the field force for the first time, was about 170 centimeters tall and weighed 90 kilograms, which was the same weight as the 37mm 11-year flat-fire infantry gun made in Japan. During the exercise, a horse can't bear its weight, so there must be a replacement horse. At that time, the 11-year infantry cannon was also carried by two horses, so the infantry cannon became the original nickname of Fengwen at the foot of the mountain.

The necessary conditions for the development of military personnel are academic qualifications, ability, boudoirs, and the appearance of soldiers. Of all these, there is no shortage of Fengwen at the foot of the mountain. As for the boudoir, the wife of Fengwen Yamashita is the eldest daughter of Major General Yongyou Motohiko from Sachu County. This marriage has attracted the attention of the imperial sects such as General Utsunomiya Taro and Masaburo Masaki and Lieutenant General Sadao.

Before the smoke of the Rehe War, the Kwantung Army suffered heavy losses. When a large number of generals were scolded, Fengwen, who had a smooth sailing, was transferred to the head of the military department of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Army Province, which was a very important position. In the Japanese army system, there are two main lines for officers, one is the military and political department, that is, the army province, and the other is the military command bureau, that is, the staff headquarters. In terms of military affairs, the first target is the head of the military department, and in terms of military orders, it is the head of the combat department, and then he is promoted to the director of military affairs and the minister of operations. It is also because of the important surname of the position of military director that it has a certain risk surname and will naturally be involved in the factional struggle. It was in this position that Yamashita, under the care of his father-in-law's old friend, gradually became the main powerful figure of the imperial Taoist sect after the leaders of the imperial Taoist sect, such as Sadao Araki and Shinzaburo Masaki.

II. After the February 6th Incident, the army immediately began to impose a large-scale army. The imperial faction was unprecedentedly purged, and Sadao Araki, Shinzaburo and others were removed from the military staff. The commander of the Kwantung Army, Nanjiro, and the military commander, Benzhuang, were put into the reserve. It is said that the army has made an unprecedented transfer of positions to nearly 3,000 officers.

As the soul figure of the whole army, he naturally didn't like Yamashita Fengwen, who almost had the opportunity to be the chief of staff of the North China Front Army. Therefore, he took the opportunity of adjusting and supplementing the army's strength, he kicked Yamashita Fengwen from the North China Front Army into the Kwantung Army. As a result, the immortal Yamashita Fengwen was just in time. The promotion evaluation, because its 40th brigade made great contributions when participating in the Shanxi battle before, and was promoted to lieutenant general! As a result, he met the last hard surname standard "middle general" as the commander of the front army! It can be said that Yamashita Fengwen relies on nepotism, which annoys Gu Shoufu and Tuchihara Kenji, who are ashamed of their nepotism.

Ueda Kenkichi carried out a new round of seat changes. The three front army commanders sat in the third, fourth and fifth positions of Ueda Kenkichi's order. In this regard, he said that he was quite particular about what to do and what to say! Is it like eating that dish first at a banquet? It's normal to eat that dish again!

After adjusting the seat, Kenji Ueda was absent-minded and said to Ishihara: "There should be two chariot divisions in the establishment of the Kwantung Army, but now there is only one chariot division in Kohara. I'm afraid it's too reluctant to deal with the tenth war zone. I don't know the staff headquarters and the army province. Supplementary plan? Can the new heavy chariots of one or two squadrons be added before the campaign is launched? Otherwise, if we encounter the chariot troops of Zhang Xuewu in the 10th Theater, our army will be at a great disadvantage on the North China Plain in the Northeast Plain.

Ishihara took a deep breath and said, "In fact, the major adjustment of this strategy is the change of the battle plan made by the imperial meeting based on the latest information obtained!"

Hideki Tojo, who was very dissatisfied with Ishihara Guan's question and answer, snorted, "Did Major General Ishihara stay in the reserve for too long and forget that he was from the Kwantung Army? Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief Ueda asked about the latest heavy chariot bravery, not the decision of the imperial meeting. The Kwantung Army is a direct subordinate force of His Majesty the Emperor. The successive commanders of the Kwantung Army have been personally selected by His Majesty the Emperor. Without passing through the military headquarters and the staff headquarters, the order issued by the Military Order Bureau is just a form. Major General Ishihara You didn't forget it, did you?"

Hideki Tojo, one by one, Major General Ishihara, one by one reserve, is actually stimulating Ishihara Waner, because Tojo Hideki is a very vengeful person. The embarrassment given by Ishihara Guaner can be said to him annoy him for life. Second-class soldier of Tojo? Can you only control two machine guns? Hideki Tojo will not give up any opportunity to tide at Ishihara.

Ishihara Guaner smiled disdainfully and said, "Everyone must also have doubts about why the defensive operations of the tenth war zone should be changed to offensive operations. Previously, the attack of the Xuzhou battle was changed to strategic defense, because according to the latest intelligence, the supreme commander of the [***] team is very distrusting the commander of the tenth war zone. Zhang Xuewu believes that Zhang Xuewu is a rising warlord, and Zhang Xuewu handles the materials provided by the Soviet Union, and even the Soviets regard Zhang Xuewu as almost the same political existence as the national political axe.

The division commanders below rarely have any political concepts, and they are also the most annoying politics, so they are all confused. Ishihara Guaner coughed and continued: "It's very simple. If our army attacks Xuzhou, the 10th war zone will definitely send troops to attack our army actively. From the recent large-scale transfer of the 10th war zone troops It can be seen that Zhang Xuewu is preparing for a large-scale attack, but we think the other way around that if our army attacks Rehe and Xuzhou maintains a strategic balance, will Chiang Kai-shek wait for the opportunity according to his consistent policy? Let his thorn in his side fight with us in the tenth war zone? Consuming Zhang Xuewu's strength? In this way, the empire can concentrate its efforts to pull off the nail behind us and avoid launching large-scale operations on two fronts at the same time, because the previous two-line battles have proved that the empire's national strength and the army's military strength do not have the conditions to carry out two large-scale battles at the same time.

Ishihara Guan's words shocked the commanders of the division here, especially the three new commanders of the front army? It turned out that the focus of the whole battle should be changed from opening up the Jinpu Road through the Longhai Line to the siege of the 10th war zone, and the long knife behind the solution once and for all!

(to be continued)