At present, the opponent is ready to move on the other side of the battle line, but the Kwantung Army has been artificially weakened. Although the Kwantung Army currently only has these troops, they are at most equivalent to an area as large as Liaoning Province in later generations, and the number of troops is not weak.
. But facing the powerful enemy, both General Yamada Otsuzo and Lieutenant General Qin Yanzaburo believed that their strength was seriously insufficient.
The armored superiority shown by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in previous battles made all senior Japanese generals tremble with fear. As the homeland suffered increasingly severe bombing, they were unable to manufacture large quantities of new tanks that could compete with the enemy. More
All senior Japanese generals, including General Yamada Otsuzo and Lieutenant General Qin Yanzaburo, were almost helpless.
Although the Japanese army has always claimed that it is not afraid of tanks and dares to attack tanks with human bombs, everyone is still aware of the consequences of the collision of human flesh and steel. Propaganda is propaganda, but when it actually falls on the battlefield, who will suffer the consequences.
Bushido is meant to deceive junior officers and soldiers, and senior officers are well aware of it.
After these two took office, in the face of the Anti-Japanese Alliance's continuous cannibalization tactics on the front line, they made a 180-degree adjustment to General Umezu Yoshijiro's original deployment. In the western Liaoning region, in addition to the original four divisions,
In addition, one division and six independent mixed brigades were added.
The line from Shanhaiguan to Xingcheng and from Chaoyang to Fuxin was abandoned. The main defense line in western Liaoning was deployed along the two wings of Lushan. The first group was composed of two divisions plus four independent mixed brigades to form the fourth army, led by Iida
Lieutenant General Xiang Erlang served as the commander and was deployed on the line from Jinzhou to Yixian.
The other unit is composed of three divisions and two independent mixed brigades, organized into the Fifth Army, with Lieutenant General Murakami Keisaku as the commander, and fully defends the front line from Fuxin to Xinmin. It is responsible for the defense of the northwest of Shenyang, and ensures the long-term
The safety of the main force of the Kwantung Army along the railway. These two armies formed the First Front Army, with General Kita Cheng, an old acquaintance of Yang Zhenzao from the Jiamusi Battle, as the commander of the front army.
The middle road is along the Zhongchang Railway, with seven divisions and two independent mixed brigades deployed to guard the entire area starting from the east of Xinmin Liaohe River in the west, to Changtu in the north, Kaiyuan Weiyuanbao line, and to Fushun in the east. The entire area.
The front takes Shenyang City as its core and forms an arc-shaped protrusion to the north.
The Japanese army in this unit uses the Zhongchang Railway as the dividing line. The three divisions of the Japanese army east of the road and two independent mixed brigades are organized into the 44th Army. Lieutenant General Yoshio Hongo is the commander of the army. The four Japanese troops west of the road are
The three divisions were organized into the Thirty Army, with Lieutenant General Qingmizu as the commander. These two armies were organized into the Third Front Army, commanded by General Harem Chun, who had also just been transferred to the Kwantung Army.
In the Liaodong area, the Third Army was organized into two divisions, plus four independent mixed brigades. It was commanded by Lieutenant General Zhongshan Dun. It was directly commanded by the Kwantung Army and relied on the mountains of Liaodong to defend the line from Shenyang to Andong.
In order to ensure that in the event of a defeat in the war, the entire Kwantung Army will retreat to North Korea's retreat route. The remaining two divisions and an independent mixed brigade are directly under the Kwantung Army as a reserve force.
It's not that General Yamada Otsuzo and Lieutenant General Qin Yanzaburo are too pessimistic, it's because they clearly know that judging from the current comparison of the overall strength of the Northeast battlefield, it will be difficult to defend Southern Manchuria once the enemy forces attack with all their strength. The Kwantung Army in its heyday was still
They were beaten so hard that the entire jurisdiction changed from the entire Northeast of China to a corner of Southern Manchuria.
Now that the Kwantung Army has lost a lot of muscles and bones, only the 7th, 25th, 51st, 63rd, and 71st divisions are left, which are relatively old divisions. But these five
All divisions were crippled in the battles in the first half of the year, with an average of only 30% of each division's strength remaining.
Fortunately, the base camp also knew the seriousness of the matter. Under the full strength of the base camp, all five divisions had been repaired by the end of July. However, the 69th, 107th, and 108th divisions were also disabled.
Although the three divisions have barely been replenished, the quality of the supplemented soldiers is not much better than the eight newly formed divisions.
As for the remaining eight divisions that have been transferred away, each with a regiment and a newly formed division, these two people have no confidence. The equipment of these eight is second-rate, the officers are third-rate, and the soldiers are even
It can be said that this is a fourth-rate division. Faced with the large number of tanks that the enemy is likely to invest, I am afraid only God knows how much its real combat effectiveness is.
Although they despised the base camp's method of digging flesh to mend sores, both of them knew that there was nothing the base camp could do. At present, the various divisions of the Southern Army were cut off in Nanyang and could not be mobilized back. Part 1
After half a year, China's elite dispatched troops were almost wiped out.
With those Mi-Ying monsters almost at home, if the base camp wants to strengthen its local and peripheral defenses, it can only mobilize troops from the Kwantung Army, which has the largest number of veteran divisions. At least the Chinese Army does not have a navy. Even if Southern Manchuria is lost,
They don't endanger the homeland either.
But if the Miying devils take over Okinawa, Taiwan, and the Ogasawara Islands in the southeast, then the mainland will be unobstructed. It will be like a girl who has been stripped naked and exposed around a group of perverts. The entire mainland
The surrounding area will become a back garden where Americans can come and leave whenever they want.
And what is the homeland? It is the foundation of all the soldiers and civilians of the empire. If the homeland is lost, what will happen even if the southern Manchurian defense is strong? The roots have been dug up, and even occupying the entire Asia is of no use. Here
Under such circumstances, cutting out the flesh and repairing the sores became the only option. The best divisions at the moment were all in the Kwantung Army. When the Southern Army was unable to send reinforcements back, the Kwantung Army became the only option.
choose.
However, although the base camp was bleeding blood to the Kwantung Army at this time, it could still be considered a certain level of care. Thirteen independent anti-tank gun squadrons were newly formed for the Kwantung Army, plus two tank brigades were retained, plus four
The Independent Tank Regiment has more than 500 tanks and more than 1,000 artillery pieces left for the Kwantung Army.
Although the newly formed eight divisions only have 24 artillery pieces, they still have a lot of independent artillery. Although the total number of artillery shells of various calibers stored is not too many, it is enough for the Kwantung Army to operate without any source of supplies.
Under this condition, it can be independently supported until the end of December.
However, after adjusting its deployment, in addition to the continuous encroaching battles on the east and west fronts, the Kwantung Army failed to wait for the Anti-Alliance offensive. The Kwantung Army waited from August to September, and even until early October, but not only did it not
When the enemy attacked, even the encroachment on the east and west fronts completely stopped.
Although there were many large-scale radio feints by the Anti-Japanese Alliance during this period, the surge in radio signals kept the Kwantung Army in a state of tension. However, a real full-line attack never occurred. By early October,
The entire front line was eerily quiet.
However, after several months of encroaching fighting, General Yamada Otsuzo was shocked to find that his eastern and western fronts, which originally formed an integrated defense line, were riddled with holes. The western front was better to say the least, but was blocked by the enemy's defense line.
, hammered in large and small nails. However, the changes on the eastern front were extremely drastic, and the enemy even pushed them to the outskirts of Fushun.
The enemy troops have advanced to the outskirts of Fushun. Not only is Fushun directly threatened by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, but the heavy troop cluster on the line from Tieling to Changtu, north of Fengtian, is also in danger of being divided. Facing the unfavorable situation on the eastern front, we are preparing to adjust
Deployment, when fighting a counterattack north of Fushun. But another piece of bad information left the two of them stunned.
A large number of enemy troops were concentrated at Tanggu Port in Tianjin, including more than ten Japanese naval landing ships, large and small. According to intelligence judgment, they were enough to transport a division and a half of ships. At the same time, a large number of enemy troops stationed in North China were also concentrated at Tanggu Port.
It is very likely that the landing will be carried out in Liaodong Bay behind the Kwantung Army.
After receiving this information, General Yamada Otsuzo and Lieutenant General Qin Yanzaburo immediately hurriedly stopped adjustments to their deployment. Their plan to launch a counterattack on the Fushun battlefield was aborted before it could be launched. In order to prevent the enemy from coming behind them,
In the last attack, the Kwantung Army could only transfer the troops scheduled to launch a counterattack south.
The reserve teams of the two divisions, plus a division drawn from the China-Changchun Railway, were transferred to the front line from Gaiping to Yingkou for defense. The other division, plus a tank brigade, were transferred to the Dashiqiao line for defense.
Form a trapezoidal configuration in the horizontal direction. At the same time, the Third Army was ordered to quickly mobilize a division, plus an independent mixed brigade, to station around Jinzhou Bay to prepare for anti-landing operations.
As a result, the limited mobile forces of the entire Kwantung Army were almost exhausted. Except for the peripheral defense line, there were almost no mobile forces and reserves within the entire depth of the defense. Once the two wings of the front line were breached, the entire South Manchuria depth
There will be no more troops to deal with the crisis.
But just when the last mobile forces in the hands of General Yamada Otsuzo were all transferred to the Bohai Sea to prepare for anti-landing operations, he found that what awaited him was still a long wait. Throughout early October, the entire front was quiet.
If any abnormality occurs, even the enemy's extremely active tactical reconnaissance at the front line has been completely stopped.
Various intelligence shows that the enemy forces deep in several directions have no tendency to mobilize on a large scale. The main enemy forces in northern Manchuria are currently resting and reorganizing and have not made any major moves. The enemy forces on the Tianjin front line in North China are also
They just gathered in Tanggu without taking any next steps.
The frontline returned to calm, which relieved General Yamada Otozo's worries. He judged that perhaps the enemy was just bluffing. The abnormalities that had occurred in the past few months since taking office made General Yamada Otozo, who felt somewhat exhausted mentally and physically, decide to
Go to Lushun to recuperate for a while. There are the best geishas in Manchuria there, which can effectively relieve your tired heart since you were transferred.
General Yamada Otsuzo went to Lushun and took the geisha to recuperate. However, Qin Yanzaburo, the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, did not relax any vigilance. He believed that the enemy's previous movements and the fierce battles at the tactical level on the east and west fronts,
It will definitely not be hasty or blind.
The enemy troops gathering in Tanggu may be a bluff. They have no experience in coastal landing operations, and they do not have a navy strong enough to escort them. Their attempt to land in Liaodong Bay is just a feint to distract themselves. But in
The enemy troops on the frontal front are either motionless, and if they move, the sky will be shattered.
Although General Yamada Otsuzo was not in office and went to the ecstasy in Lushun to recuperate, Lieutenant General Qin Yanzaburo made as much preparations as possible for the contingency in early October. This was because he was
The responsibilities of the Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army. Lieutenant General Qin Yanzaburo ordered all frontline units and all officers to stop construction and all units at all levels to enter first-level combat preparations.
He also ordered the Puppet Manchukuo Maritime Police Force, its dozen small gunboats and gunboats, and a dozen old-fashioned aircraft to increase patrols in Liaodong Bay. Especially in the area west of the Daling River Estuary in Jinzhou, patrols should be focused. At the same time, strict
Tell this water police force not to hang around at the gate of Yingkou, but to push its patrol line westward to the Linyu line.