What Lieutenant General Anda 23 means is that the North China Front Army is now ready. At present, some troops have been transferred to the Ping-Tianjin area. The railway lines can be relied on at any time to quickly reach any direction. Moreover, the North China Front Army has mobilized ten troops.
The two automobile squadrons are respectively deployed in Peiping and northern Shanxi to ensure that reinforcements can move quickly away from the railway line at any time.
Not only the troops stationed in Hebei and Shanxi are ready to be dispatched at any time. Even part of the 12th Army stationed in Shandong and the 17th Division stationed in Xuzhou of the 13th Army directly under the China Expeditionary Army have begun to concentrate their forces.
Stationed at major stations along Jinpu Road.
The 15th Division stationed in Nanjing has also begun to shrink its troops, and the independent mixed 9th Brigade stationed in Hankou has also begun to move from Hankou to Hebei. The two advance infantry brigades, artillery team and engineering team have landed at Tanggu Port.
The Fourth Cavalry Brigade, which originally belonged to the Mongolian garrison cavalry group and is now under the command of the Twelfth Army, is also on the way to return to the formation. In other words, not only the North China Front Army, but also the entire China Expedition Army is ready.
No matter what this powerful opponent in front of them wants to do next, it will require the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army to cooperate with each other and coordinate the operations. If the Anti-Japanese Alliance really chooses to go south, the North China Front Army hopes that the Kwantung Army can fight against it during the battle.
Manchuria launched a full-scale counterattack, striving to recapture Tongliao and cut off the supply line for their troops heading south.
And if the Anti-Japanese Alliance's move south is just a bluff, and the focus is still on southern Manchuria. Then the North China Front Army will draw out its forces to take over the pressure from the Kwantung Army in the direction of Western Manchuria and ensure the safety of the Beining Railway. In other words, the two provinces of Rehe and Jinzhou will be controlled by the North China Front.
The front army took over the role of defense from the Kwantung Army. The two strategic groups cooperated with each other to deal a devastating blow to the anti-Japanese armed forces facing them.
Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadichi was very cautious about the suggestion of Lieutenant General Adachi 23rd. The rationing between the two armies was not a problem, but Manchuria has always been the territory of the Kwantung Army and has never allowed other parties to intervene. Let alone North China.
The front army and even the navy have never been able to intervene. Except for the Port Arthur military port, the navy does not have any naval bases in Manchuria.
If the North China Front Army is allowed to enter Rehe and Jinzhou, it is equivalent to letting the North China Front Army extend its hands into the territory of the Kwantung Army. This has never happened since the establishment of the China Garrison Army. It has always been from the Kwantung Army.
This is the first time that troops have been mobilized into the China Pass and penetrated into the China Pass area. In turn, the North China Front Army has reached out to the Kwantung Army's sphere of influence.
Regarding the North China Front Army's suggestion, Yoshimoto Teiichi had to be cautious. As the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, he had to consider the emotions and interests within the Kwantung Army. Although he had suffered many defeats, the pride of the flower of the Imperial Army was still there.
Many people still cannot accept the idea of letting people extend their hands into their own territory. And once the North China Front extends its hands into Rehe, it will be difficult for them to withdraw.
The Army is naturally integrated when facing the outside world, especially when facing its biggest enemy, the Navy, but the Army itself is still divided into many interest groups. If the North China Front Army can take over the Kwantung Army's defense in Jehol during wartime, it will naturally be
A good thing, this can greatly reduce the pressure on the Kwantung Army on the entire battlefield.
But Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Teiichi was afraid that it would be easier to ask the gods than to send them away. It would be easy to allow them to enter Manchuria, but it would be difficult to get them to withdraw after the incident. Especially at present, the entire China battlefield is in a period of relative calm.
The same principle of allowing others to sleep soundly applies within the Army.
It’s just that whether it’s Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadichi, the Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army, or Adachi Twenty-san, the Chief of Staff of the North China Front, or even Lieutenant General Harem Jun, the Chief of Staff of the China Expeditionary Army who is also silent, what is the starting point of all the arguments?
How to resist the proactive attack of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
As for the Japanese army, which has always advocated offensive, they took the initiative to launch an attack to deal a heavy blow to the Anti-Japanese Alliance who were in the period of recovery, and nipped in the bud the most likely follow-up offensive. In order to cooperate with the empire's offensive in Nanyang, it was
No one mentioned it.
Manchuria has always been the territory of the Kwantung Army, and it is difficult for others to reach in and interfere. But the Kwantung Army itself does not have this idea, which makes people somewhat surprised. What is the Kwantung Army? It is the flower of the Imperial Army.
, I was so proud and arrogant that I didn’t even mention a word. I don’t know if it’s because I don’t have the strength at the moment, or I was defeated.
Yoshimoto Teiichi was silent, but General Okamura Neiji, who rarely spoke, suddenly spoke: "You just judged that they would go south to attack Chanan or Nanman, but you are not them. Just based on what they have done so far
Judging from the overall situation of the country, coming to this conclusion, are you taking it for granted?
"Judging from their combat experience with the Kwantung Army, every time the Kwantung Army judged their strategic intentions, they basically failed. What does this mean? It means that their ideas cannot be judged in a conventional way. The Empire
I still believe in the judgment of the army staff and their ability to collect intelligence."
"Mr. Anda, the Kwantung Army has fought against them for many years, whether successful or failed. But one thing, you must remember. The Kwantung Army has accumulated enough experience in fighting them, so we must treat the Kwantung Army's suggestions carefully.
.Remember an army that never adheres to traditional tactics, we cannot treat it from a conventional perspective. The lessons of the Kwantung Army are also a wake-up call for us."
After that, General Okamura Neiji walked to the wall of the conference room and said in front of the large operational map specially prepared for this meeting: "The basis of all your judgments is based on whether their target is the Pingjin and Chanan lines, or whether they are targeting the Pingjin and Chanan lines.
Based on Southern Manchuria. But for an army that can never make judgments based on common sense, I think your judgments are a bit too taken for granted."
"I would like to ask you, if their target is not Pingjin or Southern Manchuria, what other direction do you think they can use as their main attack direction? For an army that advocates offense, but is prone to deviating from the direction of attack.
For them, the place where it is easiest to make a breakthrough or obtain the greatest results is not their choice."
"Here I can tell you clearly that judging from their entire deployment and experience in previous battles, my judgment is exactly the opposite of yours. I think their next main target is not Chanan and Nanman.
From this direction, they are at most a bluff or a diversionary attack. I think their real targets should be Chaxi, northern Shanxi and Suidong."
"Don't forget, if they open up the connection with the mainland of China, they can not only rely on attacking the Pingjin area. They can also do it by moving west to capture Chaxi and Suidong, and opening up the connection with northern Shanxi.
And it’s closer to their central location, the so-called Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.”
"If they open up this route and reach northern Shanxi and Suidong, which are closer to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, it will not only play a military role, but also open a channel for their next development to absorb the population of mainland China to settle in Manchuria.
One thing you have never thought about is the huge political role it plays."
"A well-equipped and powerful army is placed there, which can play a considerable role in the current complex political situation in China. At least Chongqing wants to perform in northern Shaanxi what they did in southern Anhui.
I’m afraid I have to think twice before doing this.”
"At the same time, compared with the complex terrain of Chanan and Northern Hebei, the empire has deployed defensive forces there and surrounding forces that can be reinforced at any time. The strength of the entire Mongolian garrison is the largest among all combat groups of our North China Front Army.
The least one."
"Even though the Fourth Cavalry Brigade returned the Mongolian Army's organizational structure, the total strength of the Mongolian Army is still the weakest among the several strategic groups of the North China Front Army. Moreover, they have a large number of tanks in their hands. Compared with Chanan and Ji
The mountains in the north and the grassland terrain in Suidong and Chabei are more suitable for tank corps operations."
"If they choose this direction to launch an attack, they will most likely catch us off guard. They will use the rapid advance of the tanks to break through the defenses of the 26th Division and head west. Once they get ahead of our reinforcements in northern Shanxi, they will
, seizing the flags on the right wing of Chahar can cut our Mongolian garrison in two in a short period of time."
"At the same time, one force launched an attack on the outer Great Wall line of Duolun, Chengde, Zhangjiakou and other places, occupying the mountain passes of Dama Mountains and Yanshan Mountains to contain and block our Chanan garrison from being able to reinforce. In the direction of northern Shanxi, as long as they seize Fengzhen
As well as several passes along the Great Wall, we can block my reinforcements within the Great Wall."
"You are all experts in infantry warfare or artillery warfare, but there are almost no people who are good at commanding tank swarms. Here I can responsibly tell you that if they concentrate on the hundreds of tanks they currently have, they will be able to start from Hun
We made an all-out assault to the west from the east of Shandake Sand Land. When we arrived at Ulanqab, our troops were divided into two groups, and they respectively went straight to Guisui and Fengzhen. So what should we do?"
"According to the experience gained by the German army on the Soviet-German battlefield, their move is not without the possibility of success. Concentrate the tank group and use its advantages in mobility, firepower, and protection to break through our army's blockade and move westward with all its strength. At the same time, concentrate
A force was used to besiege our blocking troops to protect the rear of the assault group. The Germans' use of this tactic on the Soviet-German battlefield has proven the possibility of success."
"In the battle between the Kwantung Army and the Kwantung Army that just ended, the Anti-Japanese Alliance had already used this tactic in actual combat. Judging from the results of their fight with the Kwantung Army, the outcome seemed to be very favorable to them. As a general of the Imperial Army,
I have to say that they concentrated their tanks and used their rapid mobility to carry out long-distance attacks from the weakest link in the Kwantung Army's entire defensive zone, and they fought beautifully in that battle."
"Using the opportunity that the main force of the Kwantung Army has been attracted by the offensive launched by its central and eastern fronts, concentrate a large number of tanks and cavalry groups, and quickly hit the Kwantung Army's weak point with a beautiful left hook. It will affect the entire Western Manchuria.
The rapid changes in the war situation played a decisive role."
"Although their breakthrough this time took advantage of the special situation in Outer Mongolia, we have to be prepared for the tactics they used and be on guard against the next possible attack they may launch.
Let’s do it again. The Kwantung Army’s failure in the Western Manchurian War is a lesson for us.”
After all, he was the first person among the Japanese army to concentrate tanks in a breakthrough battle. In the Battle of Nanchang, this Okamura Neiji concentrated a large amount of artillery fire and tanks, implemented a rapid breakthrough of tanks under fire cover, and achieved considerable success.
General. Relying only on the current limited information and the characteristics of the forces used by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the previous battle, he can accurately judge the possible main attack direction of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the next step, as well as the possible tactics.