Although General Hata Junroku expressed limited support for the base camp's attitude, he did not agree with the base camp's request to immediately launch a counterattack. In the view of this cunning general, remembering to implement a full-line counterattack, no matter in preparation
In terms of strategy, it is still a bit too hasty.
It's just that this old and cunning general, who has a dense network of connections in the upper echelons of the military and has a nose as sharp as a dog, has a very clear and far-reaching view on this matter. Therefore, his opposition is not very serious in attitude.
Resolute. Just a clear suggestion. It is best to push back this time and give China at least one to two months to prepare for dispatching troops.
But General Harem Chun told him clearly that this was a decision personally made by the Prime Minister, Land Minister and Chief of Staff. After all the reinforcements and equipment are received, a counterattack must be launched within a week. This battle must not be allowed to be based on
, affecting the base camp’s deployment of the next war.
In order to ensure that China's dispatched troops have enough troops to carry out this operation, the base camp is already replenishing the troops. In order to support this operation, the base camp has mobilized with all its strength, and it can even be said that it has done its best. As for China
For the dispatched troops, the requirements of the base camp must be met.
As the former chief of staff of the former dispatched force and an old subordinate of General Hata Shunroku, General Haremiya Jun kindly told his old superior that if he did not want to be transferred back to the country and transferred to a sinecure position like a military counselor, it was best to support the base camp.
decision. Because many issues include His Majesty’s decision.
As for the next deployment of the base camp, I cannot say too much. But in order to win over this person with a profound background, he has served two terms as Secretary of State for the Army, one term as Director of Army Education, and has built a dense network of relationships in the military and political circles.
Even my old classmate, who now has three jobs, supported the general who was somewhat taboo, and General Chun of the Harem also revealed some of it.
After hearing General Harem Jun reveal a few words, although they were not much, they were enough to scare people. General Hata Shunroku's originally not strong opposition attitude suddenly disappeared completely. But this was the highest ranking figure in the entire Japanese army that invaded China.
The commander also insisted that if the base camp insisted on counterattacking North China now, then the current commander of the North China Front should not be replaced.
Regarding the army general's insistence on replacing Okamura Neiji, because the emperor's attitude was ambiguous, Harem Jun, who was opposed to it, chose to accept it. Now that the commander of the China Expeditionary Force fully supports Okamura
Village Ningci, he just walked down the slope to get off the donkey.
As for how many troops the Japanese army was prepared to invest in this counterattack, General Haremiya Jun never revealed it when talking to General Hata Shunroku. However, on the first day of the combat meeting, General Haremiya Jun did not hide anything.
All the mysteries were revealed.
On the first day, he announced that the base camp had begun to arrive in China one after another. The base camp would replenish eight field reinforcements for the Chinese dispatched troops, all of which would replenish the divisions that were crippled in this battle. The focus was on the divisions that had been withdrawn from Shanxi.
The First Army, its various divisions and independent mixed brigades.
At the same time, the base camp has decided to allocate the newly formed 114th Division, 115th Division, 117th Division, and 118th Division to the North China Front Army. The 114th Division and the 118th Division
, will all arrive in Lianyungang within two days. The 115th Division will arrive in Yantai at the same time, and the 117th Division will all arrive in Shanghai three days later.
Among them, except for the 117th Division, which was added to the First Army, the remaining three divisions were all integrated into the Twelfth Army. In addition to the newly formed four divisions, the base camp decided to transfer the 50 divisions belonging to the Eastern Army of the Mainland to
The 2nd Division, the 72nd Division, the 44th Division and the 100th Division of the Central Army, and the 9th and 50th Divisions of the Taiwan Army are all assigned to the command of the China Expeditionary Force.
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In addition to these ten infantry divisions, the base camp decided to divide the newly formed 28th, 29th, and 30th tank regiments, as well as the local independent tank regiments that have been fully formed into the second.
Four brigades and regiments were all transferred to the Chinese Dispatch Army. Seventeen anti-aircraft gun squadrons and 21 independent anti-tank gun squadrons were added.
The equipment equipped by these tank brigades, regiments, as well as anti-aircraft guns and anti-tank gun squadrons are all newly manufactured weapons and equipment. It can be said that from the troops to the equipment, they are all brand new. Three of them are newly formed.
The vehicle regiment was even equipped with the latest tanks. During the first phase of the battle, the Japanese used the Anti-Japanese Alliance to temporarily suspend air strikes against Japan and went all out to produce new army equipment. This time, all the new army equipment was given to the Chinese dispatched troops.
At the same time, the base camp will add two independent field artillery regiments, three independent mountain artillery regiments, two field heavy artillery regiments, and three independent field heavy artillery regiments. In addition, there will be 11 automobile squadrons, plus four field railway regiments.
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In addition to the combat troops, the base camp will also prepare four battle units of light weapons and ammunition, six battle units of artillery shells, a large number of river crossing equipment and assault boats. Among the fuel allocated by the Army in 2004, 6%
A share of ten. In order to transport these troops, equipment, and supplies, the base camp mobilized all the transport ships currently available.
These ten divisions newly incorporated into the China Expeditionary Force, together with all equipment including 5,000 trucks, 60,000 pack horses and draft horses, will be shipped to Shanghai, Yantai, and Lianyungang in the shortest possible time. However,
Among them, the 9th and 44th Division will carry out landing operations on the Qikou front line after the counterattack operations have fully started to cooperate with the frontal operations.
In order to transport such a large number of troops, the base camp has decided to temporarily suspend transportation operations in other directions until all attached troops are in place. All ships that can be concentrated, including all the destroyers and coastal defense ships of the Navy that can be dispatched in the mainland, will be used to transport such a large number of troops.
This transportation operation.
The Navy will dispatch a large fleet during wartime to provide fire cover, escort, and air cover. It will also dispatch a Marine Special Marine Corps and the Navy's only two tank groups to cooperate with the two divisions to conduct landing operations in Qikou.
.Under the current war situation, these base camps have only one requirement for adding so many troops to China's dispatched troops, and that is to open up ground contact with the Kwantung Army at all costs.
For the base camp, which has always been very tight on the strength of China's dispatched troops, this time it was so generous. Not only the senior officers who were supposed to participate in the meeting were quite surprised. Even the general who had talked with Harem Chun before, did not
General Hata Shunroku, who did not ask the base camp how many additional troops it promised to provide to the Chinese dispatched troops, was also quite surprised.
Including General Hata Shunroku, all senior officers attending this meeting. After listening to the division numbers reported by Lieutenant General Harumiya Jun, they all understood that the base camp was really anxious this time. These newly formed divisions were almost
It was two-thirds of the new division formed by the base camp in 1944.
The base camp immediately added ten divisions to the China Expeditionary Force. In addition, the 42nd Division currently deployed on the Yantai front line was also recently transferred. Only the divisions newly assigned to the command of the China Expeditionary Force were
It has reached eleven. Of course, these eleven divisions will not all be put into the Hebei battlefield at once.
Even if these ten divisions are committed to two-thirds of the North China battlefield, coupled with the several divisions of the North China Front Army that are still there, it can be said that the base camp's investment in this battle can almost be said to exceed its own strength.
Since the July 7th Incident, the Wuhan Battle was the largest battlefield in China.
However, regarding the deployment and supplementary plan of the base camp, among all the senior officers who attended the meeting, except for General Okamura Neiji, he snorted in his heart and disapproved of it, secretly cursing why he had gone there earlier.
The dispatched army was under the direct control of the Eleventh Army and the Chief of Staff of the Thirteenth Army was also quite dissatisfied.
In order to support the North China battlefield, these two armies deployed a large number of troops, but they basically never returned. At present, the base camp is only focused on replenishing the North China Front Army, and none of the eight newly arrived field supplementary teams has been allocated to the two armies. This is
It is difficult for the two armies to accept that they are also faced with a vast occupied area, suffered heavy losses, and are also somewhat unsustainable.
Especially the 11th Army, which originally suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Changde. As a result, a large number of troops were transferred away to reinforce the North China battlefield before they could even take a breather when they returned to their base, or even before they could replenish themselves. As a result, these troops were beaten like crap.
The dog left and never came back.
Not only is the current Eleventh Army unable to maintain its original attack power, it even has very limited troops to defend the current control area. According to intelligence, the Eleventh Army currently faces Chongqing, which has the largest number of troops and the most sophisticated weapons and equipment.
The 6th and 9th war zones are in the process of replacing large quantities of fine art equipment.
In other words, the threats faced by the Eleventh Army are getting bigger and bigger now. If the Eleventh Army is not replenished, the Eleventh Army will even reach a situation where it can no longer maintain the current battle line. The base camp will give all the supplementary troops to the Eleventh Army.
The First Army and the Twelfth Army. The Eleventh Army did not receive any additional soldiers, which undoubtedly made the newly appointed Chief of Staff of the Eleventh Army, Major General Nakayama Sadake, quite angry and dissatisfied.
Faced with the dissatisfaction expressed by the two chiefs of staff of the Eleventh Army and the Thirteenth Army, General Harem Chun, the former chief of staff of the China Expeditionary Force, made the final decision. He directly told the two chiefs of staff attending the meeting that the top priority of the base camp now is
Reopen the ground connection between the Chinese Expeditionary Forces and the Kwantung Army to ensure the troops and heavy equipment needed for combat.
If anyone hinders this battle, the base camp will not mind removing him from the China Expeditionary Force and transferring him to other fronts. Although the war is imminent, the base camp does not care about attacking those who are not the main combat direction of the China Expeditionary Force at this time.
Personnel, make certain adjustments.
As for the battle losses of the Eleventh Army and the Thirteenth Army, it is not that the base camp will not consider it, but that is the next step. If the two chiefs of staff of the two armies cannot accept the decision of the base camp, then they can complain to the Ministry of War and the General Staff Headquarters themselves.
.But now, the base camp has no energy to take care of them.
General Harem Chun's clear statement made the two army chiefs of staff shut up. This was the decision of the base camp, not the decision of China's dispatched troops. Even if they were dissatisfied, they could only endure it for the time being. I heard
After the last battle, the Prime Minister, Minister of War and Chief of Staff was very angry.
Several people in the Army Ministry and the General Staff Headquarters had suffered great misfortune because they did not know what offended him. Even General Nishio Hiszo, who had great military achievements, only made a few sarcastic remarks to him, and he was sent to the reserve in advance.
If the two of us come into contact with the bad luck of this prime minister who has three jobs in one at this time, we may not know what the consequences will be.
Although the North China Front is tight on the current battlefield in China, the Eleventh Army and the Thirteenth Army are living a pretty good life. The pressure is great, but in the rich South China, the two armies are living a comfortable life. Especially the Tenth Army.
The three armed forces control the richest places in China, and the surrounding Chinese army is not strong, so the standard of living is even better than at home.