Chapter five hundred and thirtieth bow down and admit defeat
After listening to the advice of Lieutenant General Iimura Rang, Umezu Yoshijiro took a breath of cold air. [Most of those secret warehouses have just started to be built or have just been completed, and the supplies inside have only just begun. Except for a small amount of ammunition and spare light
In addition to the equipment, there are some clothes. Even if they are all thrown away, there is no regret.
Moreover, most of these combat readiness warehouses are built in the mountains, and their locations are hidden and extremely secretive not only to the outside world. Except for the laborers who will never go out when they are built, not to mention the Manchus, ordinary Koreans and even middle and lower-level officers of the Kwantung Army.
Know the exact location. Even if you give up temporarily, it doesn't matter, because no one can find them except with a detailed map.
As for killing the tens of thousands of laborers recruited to build these secret fortifications, it would not be any difficult for the Kwantung Army. Anyway, even without the threat of this anti-Manchu armed force, after the construction of the fortress group and the secret fortification group was completed, in order to keep these secrets secret
Workers must also be eliminated. For the Kwantung Army, the best way to keep secrets is to kill them.
But he was a little worried about giving up the Shengshan Fortress Group that the Kwantung Army had just spent a huge amount of money to build. The Shengshan Fortress Group was not a simple fortress group. It was actually built by the Japanese army from Farabie to Hormozin.
It covers the entire front of the Heihe River and is a fortress group with a length of more than 100 kilometers. Among them, there are as many as 17 permanent fortification groups.
The Katsuyama Fortress Group is just the largest one among them. It is also the code name for the entire Heihe Fortress Group on the Kwantung Army map. The so-called Katsuyama Fortress Group, in the Japanese base camp, is actually called the Farabie Border Fortress.
Zone and the Khormozin fortress complex.
In addition to the Hormozin and Shengshan fortress groups, the construction of these fortress groups has been completed, and the required artillery has been put in place. Now the main task is to expand the original fortifications. The Farabie fortress group and several other frontal fortress groups, Sun
The construction of Wu Thermal Power Plant just started last year.
These fortifications were built by the Kwantung Army, which spent huge sums of money. Last year alone, the Kwantung Army allocated tens of millions of yen for them. These fortifications, which cost huge sums of money to build, were all abandoned without firing a shot, even though they had always been used.
Umezu Yoshijiro, who was decisive and proud in killing, couldn't help but hesitate.
Not only the fortress, but also a field arsenal built by the Japanese army, second only to Harbin in the entire Northern Manchuria region. There is also a very large chemical ammunition warehouse that stores one-fifth of the Kwantung Army's total chemical weapons. In addition, the entire Sun
Due to the so-called border defense and secret military industry needs, there are currently more than 256,000 Japanese and Koreans in Wu territory.
Umezu Yoshijiro naturally does not care about the life and death of the more than 20,000 Koreans. Even if they cannot be evacuated, these people will not survive. But he is the more than 240,000 authentic Japanese currently concentrated in Sunwu territory.
You can't ignore it. If you throw away all these nationals, no one in the base camp, not even the emperor, will be able to spare you.
Seeing Umezu Yoshijiro's face that flickered between bright and dark after listening to his words, Iimura Rang, who has been his partner for more than a year, naturally knew what he was thinking. But whether he should lose the fortress group in Heihe, in Iimura
It seemed to Muraro that it didn't matter. But how to evacuate the more than 200,000 foreign residents, Iimura Rō had no idea.
If the First Division is lost, what's the use of retaining those fortress groups in Heihe? Can a fortress group without anyone defending it still be called a fortress group? In Rang Iimura's view, abandoning these fortress groups is nothing more than a waste of time.
It was just a waste of some money. Compared with the 30,000 people in the First Division and the attached border guard, the money was not worth mentioning. But for the more than 200,000 imperial immigrants, he also had a headache.
In the absence of railways, more than 240,000 people rely only on wooden boats, a few patrol boats of the Border Guard, and even temporary wooden rafts. It is impossible to evacuate them all in a short time.
Simple thing. What's more, most of these more than 200,000 people are civilians who have not received any military training.
But if we really want to leave these more than 200,000 foreigners alone now, not to mention Iimura Rang and even Umezu Yoshijiro cannot make this determination. But if we take such a huge baggage with these more than 200,000 foreigners, then
It would be easier for the First Division to resist on the spot.
Thanks to the more than 200,000 overseas Chinese, we can always piece together a force of 50,000 to 60,000. If it does not involve the issue of feeding the First Division, which has been cut off, Iimura Rang would not want to give up on Sun Wu.
The Kwantung Army has worked hard to build a fortress group for many years. He does not believe that with the temporary armed immigrants, the opponent will still be able to capture Sun Wu in a short time based on the current situation.
Seventy-eight thousand people, even seventy-eight thousand pigs, I'm afraid they don't have such a good appetite. Although the Kwantung Army cannot ration heavy weapons to these temporarily armed immigrants, according to the current production capacity and reserves of Shenyang Arsenal in southern Manchuria
There will be no problem in supplying them with sufficient light weapons in stock.
And although these people have no time to train, there is no problem if they don't fight in the field and just fire guns in the fortifications. And there are also a lot of retired Japanese soldiers among the more than 200,000 people. But without food, let alone temporary
The armed immigrants, even the First Division, probably wouldn't be able to hold on for long. Even hunger would kill these people.
Although there are food reserves in Heihe that can satisfy 30,000 combat troops for a year, if these food reserves are added to the average of 240,000 troops, they may not be able to last even one month. Once the food reserves are used up, what awaits these people
There is only one way to die.
Umezu Yoshijiro, who had been persuaded by Iimura Rang, had actually made up his mind to retreat, but now how Sun Wu and the more than 200,000 Japanese in the entire Heihe Province should retreat has become the most troublesome problem for the two of them. These Japanese
People are not those workers. If the situation is bad, find a ravine and set up a machine gun to kill them directly.
These are living people of the Japanese Empire. If the war situation is not favorable and the Kwantung Army leaves them alone, I am afraid that the only thing waiting for me and the commander is a military court. Japan is not that crazy now, and it is easy to engage in massacres.
Broken jade.
In fact, both of them understood that the best way to evacuate these compatriots under the current situation was to use the First Division to defend the perimeter, especially protect the airport, and organize the airlift of the people. After all non-combatants were evacuated, the Third Division
The first division was moving up the river and evacuated by water.
But both of them also knew that according to the current number of transport aircraft of the Kwantung Army, even if all the bombers that could serve as transport aircraft were counted together, they would not be able to transport more than 200,000 people in a short period of time. Let alone the current opponents.
There are also fighter jets that can shoot down transport aircraft at any time.
Umezu Yoshijiro, who thought about it but couldn't come up with a good idea, gritted his teeth and said: "Iimura-kun, these more than 200,000 Japanese are the emperor's subjects. If we leave them, the emperor will not spare us, and neither will the base camp."
If it doesn't work for us, I'm afraid we won't even have the chance to have a caesarean section."
"In this way, all the aircraft that the Kwantung Army can currently gather that can carry personnel will be gathered to transport some of the family members of officers, senior officials, military experts and some precious materials. Especially the five and a half tons produced by Heihe last year and the first half of this year.
All the gold must be transported back to Xinjing in quantities of one or two gold."
"The main force of the First Division carried all the Japanese in Sunwu territory. After blowing up the arsenal, they all shrank to the line from the Hormojin Fortress Group to Sunwu County, abandoning the Aihui Fortress Group in the west. At the same time, transport planes were used to airlift some weapons.
In addition to the more than 10,000 pieces of light weapons stored by the First Division, all the young and middle-aged men among the more than 200,000 Japanese were armed to defend Sun Wu and the Hormozin fortress group."
Speaking of this, Umezu Yoshijiro looked at Iimura Sang who wanted to say something after hearing what he said: "Iimura-kun, I'm going to trouble you with the Ninth Division. No matter if it goes according to your plan or mine.
, the offensive of the Ninth Division cannot be stopped. In addition, Chuichi Hata has not yet been transferred, and he has been asked to go to Qiqihar to command the 51st Division, the Independent Fourth Garrison and the troops in the Manchurian Army's Third Military District.
Fight against the enemies advancing westward."
"At the same time, the 24th Division was ordered to speed up and not enter the Shuangcheng territory at noon the day after tomorrow. In addition, a regiment of the 57th Division was transferred to the Taolaizhao line by train to protect the 9th Division and the 24th Division.
The division's retreat. In addition, all our anti-aircraft artillery that can be concentrated will be allocated to the Ninth Division to ensure the safety of the Lalin River Bridge."
Hearing Umezu Yoshijiro's decision and the non-negotiable tone when saying this decision, Iimura Rang smiled bitterly. He wanted to persuade Umezu Yoshijiro again but heard Umezu Yoshijiro continue: "We still control the Mohe River and all the Heilongjiang coasts.
The district issued an order to gather them, whether they are civilian boats, fishing boats, or even going up the mountain to cut trees and build rafts."
"I don't care even if I steal or rob or use their bathtub or cooking pot. As for whether they are driving up or down, I don't want to worry about it. But there is one thing, it must be within forty-eight hours.
Gather me ships that can transport at least two to thirty thousand people at a time."
"Order the First Division to hold on for seventy-two hours, cover the evacuation of all Japanese within the territory, completely wipe the entire Sun Wu from the face of the earth, and then retreat up the river to Mohe to stand by. As for the direction of Qiqihar
, we will do as you say. But we can’t just hold back their four columns, we also have to restore the North-Heilongjiang Railway, even if it is only for a short period of time."
"As long as the Beikoku Railway can be re-opened, we can greatly speed up the retreat of the imperial immigrants in Sun Wu. You tell Lieutenant General Ueno Kanichiro that you will stop these four columns at all costs. And concentrate all your forces and give me
Re-open the North-Heilongjiang Railway. Even if he gives up Qiqihar, even if all his 51st Division is wiped out, he will not hesitate."
Speaking of this, Umezu Yoshijiro flashed a fierce look in his eyes: "There is also Lieutenant General Namada Juichi. Before you go to the Twin Cities, take a flight to Mudanjiang. Tell Mr. Namada that within twenty-four hours
, I want to see him report the battle situation to me in Qiqihar City."
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