"The Japanese abandoned their northern defense line and transferred all their troops back to the core area of ​​Northeast China. Including the border guards and other local troops, they also left their original stations and gathered around the three central cities!"

Xie Chengrui looked at the combat sand table and said to Jiangdong: "Currently, the number of Japanese troops gathered north of Fengtian and around Changchun and Harbin has increased. The remaining main force of the Kwantung Army is in these places, about 500,000 people!

There are also nearly 300,000 armed expatriates!”

"In these 10 days of fighting, the Japanese have seen that holding on to the fortress is the only way out. They all gathered on the plain, giving us a good opportunity to gather and annihilate them without having to search for them from mountain to mountain.

This is very good!" Jiang Dong's eyes suddenly brightened for a moment,

"The Kwantung Army only has 500,000 regular troops?

So we killed 700,000 people and 700,000 Japanese flowers in 10 days!"

"Indeed!" Xie Chengrui nodded with a smile, "Judging from various intelligence sources, the Kwantung Army's regular troops indeed only have more than 500,000 troops.

In the previous stage, the Japanese held the fortress, but near the fortress, we annihilated three to four hundred thousand people!

Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, three provinces, three armies attacked at the same time. The Japanese resistance was very fierce and they often launched suicide attacks. Our army's firepower advantage was given great room to display, so it was only in a very short time that

Achieved such great results!"

"What are the casualties of the troops?" After annihilating 700,000 elite Japanese troops, Jiangdong wanted to know whether the casualties of his troops were serious.

Xie Chengrui's eyes dimmed for a moment, but soon a smile appeared on his face again and he said:

"As of this morning, a total of 33,600 people have been directly sacrificed by various ministries, and nearly 70,000 people have been injured. Judging from the ratio of losses between the enemy and ourselves, this is already an unprecedented victory!"

Jiang Dong nodded, his mood was not particularly high.

During Operation Songhua River, various artillery shells were thrown into the Japanese fortresses and positions as if they were free of charge. The three armies moved forward together, regardless of any cost.

What Jiangdong wanted was to reduce the casualties of the soldiers as much as possible.

In ten days, 700,000 Japanese invaders were wiped out, and our own casualties exceeded 100,000.

How should I put it, this casualty ratio is still a bit high in Jiangdong's opinion.

After all, the amount of firepower invested in the Sixth Corps in this battle was more than 10 times that of the Japanese army, and two to three hundred million silver dollars were splashed out like running water!

He has not made detailed calculations, but Jiangdong knows that the cost of his investment in this battle will be astronomical.

Seeing Jiang Dong's low mood, Xie Chengrui smiled lightly and said to him:

"The battle loss ratio of 1:7 is already very good for us, better than the staff's prediction before the war started!

At least we didn't suffer any heavy casualties because of the Kwantung Army's so-called 2 million jade plan. You pushed the Songhua River operation from May or June to mid-August. Actual combat has proven that this was a far-sighted and correct decision!

The medical and drug support is also very sufficient, and most of the nearly 70,000 wounded people can survive on the battlefield!

This is a miracle, it has never happened in the history of human war!"

After speaking, Xie Chengrui patted Jiang Dong's shoulder.

In this era, penicillin antibiotics can be said to be a miracle drug that can bring the dead back to life. Penicillin is worth gold elsewhere, but the Sixth Corps can use this life-saving miracle drug on every wounded person.

Behind this is the huge production capacity supporting it and countless military expenditures burning.

Xie Chengrui is right. There is an adequate supply of medical drugs, especially the widespread use of drugs such as penicillin. It is a miracle that at least 60,000 of the 70,000 wounded were able to leave the battlefield alive.

Jiang Dong turned around twice, then stopped and said:

"Old Xie, you are right, I am indeed a bit of a mother-in-law, and I don't have the decisiveness to kill like a general!

The battle is not over yet. If we consider the casualties at this time, I am really unqualified as the commander-in-chief!

Let’s talk about the progress on each front and strive to end the Northeast War within a week!”

Seeing that Jiang Dong had regained his stern look, Xie Chengrui was sincerely happy. He put down the number of casualties, grabbed the baton beside him and introduced to Jiang Dong:

"Jia Dalin's 4th Group Army has successfully occupied Anton and is currently engaging in fierce exchanges of fire with the Japanese reinforcements coming from North Korea!

The First Marine Division has finished the battle on the Liaodong Peninsula and is rushing to Anton by train for support!

Today is August 26th. Judging from the progress of various ministries, the eastern and western armies will be able to successfully join forces in Harbin after the 27th!

After that, our army can approach the central area occupied by the Japanese from both the north and the south. As long as we can successfully block the Japanese reinforcements, it is very possible for a million-strong army to destroy the remaining Kwantung Army within a week!

The executioners of Unit 731 are about to flee, but the interception force led by Xiaodouzi will be in place soon, and none of these executioners can escape!"

"What is the support attitude of the Japanese base camp?" Jiangdong asked.

"Very resolute." Xie Chengrui's baton moved southward and arrived at the battlefield in Central China.

“Not only did they send reinforcements from Goryeo, they also asked the Central China Front to attack the Longhai Railway line!

The Central China Front Army, with three divisions as its main force, headed north from the Jinpu Railway, aiming directly at Xuzhou, hoping to share the pressure of the Japanese invaders in the northeast!

The Military Commission led various war zones to take advantage of the situation to counterattack. Several battles involving more than 100,000 people broke out in Jiangxi and Henan and other places, and some county towns were recovered. The results were not small!

With the support of various theaters, the Central China Front Army could not concentrate all its strength on attacking Xuzhou, and only dispatched three divisions with more than 50,000 troops. With such a small force, Samurai Min's Southern Front Guard Corps was enough to cope with it!"

"Very good!" Jiang Dong said:

"The main target of the Japanese base camp and navy is still in the south. Yamamoto Isoroku has done us a big favor!"

Xie Chengrui said dumbfounded:

"The Japanese on the southern front were advancing at a rate of almost occupying an island a day. The colonial armies of Britain, the United States and other countries were usually very proud, but when the war really came, they were simply vulnerable. They came in groups and rushed to surrender!

The Japanese have never fought such an easy battle, and I’m afraid they’re laughing so hard that they can’t even close their mouths!”

"Imperialism is all a paper tiger!" Jiang Dong shook his head and said:

“While launching military operations, the Japanese must also be launching a propaganda offensive. They portray themselves as liberators. The people of Southeast Asian countries who have been oppressed by imperialist countries for a long time will definitely take advantage of the situation to rise up and provide help to the Japanese army!

In less than a year, Southeast Asia will belong to the Japanese!"

"Yes!" Xie Chengrui agreed:

"It is precisely because the war on the southern front went extremely smoothly that the Japanese saw the opportunity to successfully establish the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, so they were unwilling to transfer the main force of the army and navy to the Northeast region!"

Xie Chengrui paused, looked at Jiang Dong and asked:

"The shipyards, industrial bases, and even skilled Japanese technicians in the Liaodong Peninsula have been controlled by our army!

All the Japanese ships have capsized, and the Bohai Fleet has nothing to do for the time being. Commander-in-Chief, what kind of mission do you think you can assign to them?"

The Bohai Fleet has now become the strongest fleet in Northeast Asia. Jiangdong can imagine that the naval officers are looking forward to getting out of the Bohai Sea and advancing into the deeper blue ocean.

It can be said that the Japanese navy's ranking as the third largest in the world is based on the tonnage of its warships. The Bohai fleet is still too immature and does not have the ability to fight with it.

Jiang Dong stared at the sand table for two or three minutes, and finally found a place where the Bohai Fleet could be used. He said:

"Let the Bohai Fleet replenish ammunition, then advance along the eastern coastline of the Liaodong Peninsula to the mouth of the Yalu River, recover the islands along the line, and then bombard the railway lines along Goryeo so that Japanese soldiers and logistical supplies cannot be quickly transported to Ansu through the railway lines.

Eastern battlefield to support the battle of the Fourth Army!"
Chapter completed!