Yoshimoto Teiichi's attitude is very clear. Instead of fighting hard now, paying a huge price to compete with the Anti-Alliance for Western Manchuria, and wiping out the Anti-Alliance's troops in Western Manchuria, it is better to use the huge consumption and transportation required to maintain the Western Manchu garrison.
Restrictions will wear them down little by little.
He knew the overall situation in Western Manchuria. The vast majority of Western Manchuria's grain output was dominated by Mongolian nomadic areas. Except for Tongliao and Kailu, it was not as good as that of a grain-producing county in Manchuria.
Output. Ammunition is not included in the battle of large troops. The food problem alone is enough to give every commander a headache.
As for the current Kwantung Army, the two divisions on the Linxi battlefield are currently in an increasingly difficult and dangerous situation. Facing the Kwantung Army, they are unable to mobilize enough troops to reinforce Linxi.
The reality on the battlefield is that it would be better to withdraw the two divisions to the line from Chifeng to Jianping.
As long as they do not get a direct connection with the battlefield in the pass, they will be trapped to death. Can Northern Manchu, which has a vast territory and sparsely populated areas and is exhausted, be able to defeat Southern Manchuria? Even in a normal year, Northern Manchuria has insufficient food and supplies.
Other supplies still need support from Southern Manchuria. Now that Western Manchuria is added, how long can they last?
If the war between the Soviet Union and the Germans had not broken out before, or if the Soviets had won the Soviet-German war, the Kwantung Army would have been more hasty. But now, the Soviets have too much to take care of themselves. The Germans even captured Kiev, the second largest city in the Soviet Union.
In the battle of Kiev, nearly a million Soviet troops were surrounded. As long as the German army captured Moscow and Leningrad, how long could the Soviet Union, which was at the end of its rope, hold on?
Without the support of the Soviet Union, how long can they support the production and construction corps they created and the vast and sparsely populated North Manchuria? Even if they are winning on the battlefield now, the outcome of a war cannot be determined by
It was achieved by winning one or two battles. The competition was about national strength and resources, and they were far behind compared to this.
If we talk about the battlefield in Guannei, the China government can still rely on the abundant manpower support in the interior of China. Then in Northern Manchuria, which is vast and sparsely populated, the total number of people in the several provinces they captured is not as large as that in Guannei and China. Now
The Kwantung Army should not be afraid of the large area controlled by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. As long as it controls southern Manchuria and Jehol, it can control the space for real development.
What's more, Yoshimoto Teiichi does not think that mobilizing the Fifth Division to support the Linxi battlefield is a better decision. In his opinion, the best role of the Fifth Division at this time is more of deterrence than actual investment.
To the front line. If the Fifth Division is sent to the Linxi battlefield, it will actually open a passage south to Jehol for the anti-alliance forces on the Tongliao front line.
At present, the advancing army in Rehe has made it difficult for the Rehe independent garrison to support it. Without the cooperation of the North China Dispatch Army, I am afraid that the entire territory of Rehe has been lost. If the Anti-Japanese Alliance increases some troops in Rehe, the Rehe garrison will be even more difficult to support.
Support. If Rehe is lost, the Anti-League is equivalent to opening up direct contact with the interior of the pass.
Once they are allowed to obtain sufficient manpower supplements within the Pass, large-scale expansion of strength will rapidly expand. This will be a disaster for the Kwantung Army. Since soldiers have become the most critical issue preventing the growth of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, then
The Kwantung Army can completely start from this aspect in terms of its overall strategy.
So the more places they occupy and the more dispersed their forces are, the more beneficial it will be to the Kwantung Army. Hasn’t the Kwantung Army suffered losses in this regard many times? Now that the tide is turning, it is not necessarily a bad thing for the Kwantung Army. Moreover,
The Anti-Japanese Alliance's occupation of Western Manchuria requires not only garrison troops, but also more than a million people to feed.
Among the more than one million ordinary people, there are still hundreds of thousands who cannot farm and can only live a nomadic life, but they need to eat food and wear clothes. At the same time, the Kwantung Army can have a lot of work to do, in the Anti-Japanese War
The Mongolians are making some fuss inside the controlled area to make them disorganized. Haven't Outer Mongolia always had ambitions in Inner Mongolia? This is where the Kwantung Army can intervene.
As long as the Kwantung Army controls southern Manchuria and central Jilin, which are rich in human resources, and strictly blocks the entire Rehe territory, blocking its southward path, it will not allow them to open up connections with the interior of the pass. So for the Kwantung Army, when
When the joint resistance forces are stretched to the extreme and internal instability occurs, this is the best reality for the Kwantung Army.
This is considered from a strategic point of view. On the remaining battlefields, if the Anti-Japanese Alliance deploys the two divisions that have been hiding in secret and the troops transferred from the East Manchu battlefield to the line from Tongliao to Lishu, then the mechanization of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in Tongliao will be
With the troops freed up, they can either go south to the Beining Railway or go east to the Zhongchang Railway at any time.
Once your judgment is confirmed, how many divisions will be needed to intercept the anti-alliance forces that appear in Tongliao, Lishu, Horqin Left Wing Center Banner, Rear Banner, and even Lishu and Kangping? Hundreds of tanks with air support
and armored vehicles, plus an armored cluster composed of a large number of heavy artillery units. Does the Kwantung Army now have so many troops and equipment to intercept and attack across the board?
To the east, south, and even north of Tongliao, there is the Songliao Plain. Under this kind of terrain, facing the enemy's tank attack, how much force does the Kwantung Army need to concentrate to gain an advantage on the battlefield? Who dares
Guarantee that the troops and firepower currently deployed on the battlefield are sufficient?
As for the 18th Division, which was alone behind the Tongliao front line, Yoshimoto Teiichi believed that it must withdraw immediately. If it is not withdrawn, according to the current battlefield situation, once it is surrounded on all sides, the Kwantung Army will even deploy rescue forces.
Not coming out. The Kwantung Army has already suffered enough losses in this battle, so there is no need to add another 18th Division.
Now the Anti-Japanese League has mobilized troops from the Xinjing front line to attack the flank of the 18th Division to the west. Coupled with the blocking troops deployed by the Anti-League around the 18th Division, as well as a large fire network composed of artillery and aviation, the 18th Division is now
There has been a problem with self-protection. Once the Anti-Japanese Federation, which has already begun moving northward in the Tongliao area, dispatches some armored groups to move northward, the 18th Division will be in a situation of being encircled.
Although the Anti-Japanese Alliance can mobilize troops from the Xinjing battlefield to the west to besiege the 18th Division. However, the Kwantung Army cannot also mobilize troops from the Xinjing battlefield to march westward to support the 18th Division. The reason is very simple: the Anti-Japanese Alliance has been secretly
The troops of the two lurking divisions never showed up, which made the Kwantung Army extremely defensive in Xinjing.
Even if there are not these two divisions that can threaten Xinjing at any time, the Anti-Japanese Alliance still has a considerable number of troops on the battlefield in Xinjing, which is currently enough to put considerable pressure on Xinjing. Judging from the current situation around the 18th Division
From the looks of it, if the Kwantung Army wanted to mobilize troops from the nearby Xinjing battlefield to support the 18th Division, the troops it would mobilize would require at least two regiments.
The deployment of two regiments of troops will be devastating to the Xinjing battlefield. Tongliao has been lost now. Will the freed-up anti-union forces there use tank clusters as the forerunners to penetrate directly along the Zhonglong Railway?
, who can guarantee this? The divisions along the Zhongchang Railway that were originally planned to be used as reserve forces for the Xinjing battlefield, now in order to ensure the safety of the Zhongchang Railway, who dares to transfer them to other directions?
The importance of Xinjing to the Kwantung Army is self-evident. People can not attack, but the Kwantung Army has to defend it. The Anti-Japanese Alliance can only leave a part of its troops in Xinjing to contain it, but the Kwantung Army just does not dare to mobilize from Xinjing.
One soldier at a time, they can be transferred to any battlefield. I am afraid that the anti-resistance alliance in front of them saw this and dared to act like this.
Even if the Kwantung Army knew for a long time that they deliberately set up this formation and the offensive against Xinjing was just a part of the feint attack on the entire battlefield, there was nothing they could do about it. Because the row of large-caliber heavy artillery deployed by the Anti-Japanese Alliance on the Xinjing battlefield was ghostly.
Do you know if they will turn their feints into real attacks when they deem it necessary or appropriate?
Xingjing is the capital of Manchukuo, a transportation hub for the entire Central Manchuria region, and the location of the Kwantung Army headquarters. If Xingjing is lost, the damage to the morale of the entire empire will definitely not be comparable to that of Harbin. Knowing that the opponent is
It was most likely a false shot in Xinjing, but the Kwantung Army did not dare to draw troops from Xinjing.
What annoyed Yoshimoto Teiichi the most was that the super heavy artillery used by the Anti-Japanese Alliance on the Xinjing battlefield was made by Japan itself. It was originally intended to be used in the Manchu-Soviet border fortress group in the Eastern Manchuria area to fight the Soviet army, but now it hit itself.
No matter how strong the fortification is, it cannot withstand the bombardment of a 240mm howitzer.
In addition to both tactics and strategy, everyone believed that the Kwantung Army had reached a time when it had to withdraw. In order to convince these senior Kwantung Army officers in front of him, Yoshimoto Teiichi also had a very high position in terms of the resources needed to maintain the war, as well as the current international situation.
In terms of situation, the advantages of abandoning Western Manchuria were analyzed.
According to Yoshimoto Sadichi, not only cars, but also the large amount of oil required for road transportation are beyond the ability of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Unless the Americans assist the Anti-Japanese Alliance at all costs, the Anti-Japanese Alliance will not produce a drop of oil at all.
, simply cannot afford the fuel needed for a large number of cars.
And if the Soviet Union was defeated by its ally the Germans, even if the Americans provided a large amount of aid to the Anti-Japanese Alliance at all costs, might it be delivered to the Anti-Japanese Alliance with no outlet to the sea? Judging from the current almost one-sided battle situation on the Soviet-German battlefield, the Soviet Union
People fail only sooner or later.
Without external assistance, their planes, tanks, and cars were just a pile of scrap metal. And without the ability to manufacture them themselves, one less one was destroyed. After the Soviets failed, as long as the Kwantung Army was stuck in the resistance,
Connecting the passage to the pass. In addition, the Imperial Army has ended its southward campaign and can turn its focus back to Manchuria. So is solving the Anti-Japanese Alliance still a problem?
Yoshimoto Teiichi believed that once it enters a long period of consumption, either the Anti-Japanese Alliance will reduce its troops in Western Manchuria, or it will be overwhelmed by the huge transportation costs. And if the Anti-Japanese Alliance wants to open up connections with the customs, Western Manchuria is a must.
Land. In this way, the Anti-Union can only be dragged down bit by bit.
It just makes this man think that even the Kwantung Army cannot afford to garrison a large number of troops in Western Manchuria, and the Anti-Japanese Alliance cannot bear this kind of consumption. If the Anti-Japanese Alliance garrison a large number of troops in Western Manchuria, it will only be dragged down by the huge consumption. If
Without a large number of troops stationed, Ximan could be taken back at any time. What Yoshimoto Teiichi didn't expect was.
In order to ensure the supply of troops stationed in Western Manchuria and to ensure the realization of future strategic goals, after the end of this battle, the Anti-Japanese Alliance did not hesitate to weaken the field troops and specially transferred some cadres and soldiers, as well as a thousand trucks and 20 high-horsepower trucks.
Track chain tractors formed a railway troop column.
With the assistance of Guo Bingxun's father, a veteran Chinese railway expert and other railway experts who arrived in October, and railway graduates from various Jiaotong University, they used the Japanese army's stockpiles seized in Harbin and Qiqihar, as well as several aids provided by the United States in 1942.
Thousand tons of rails and sleepers.
Under the personal command of Yang Zhen, the commander of the military region, who is also the commander of the railway column, and under the personal command of deputy commander Yang Jingyu, construction is started at both ends at the same time, with surveying and construction at the same time. After the survey is completed, one section will be started and one section will be started, and multiple roads will be constructed at the same time.
In 1942, the railway that originally only went west to Tongliao was extended to Linxi.