At this time, Umezu Yoshijiro seems to be a bachelor, and if he loses, he loses. [Although there were some people who were unwilling to give in before and wanted to put all their money into it. But in the end, he still listened to others' persuasion, and was not like his colleagues who often like to lose, or even
Like his country, they were so anxious to lose that they even dared to steal their pants. Although they were still unwilling to give up these orders, they finally understood the situation.
After hearing Umezu Yoshijiro's decision, Lieutenant General Iimura Rang breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that the Kwantung Army commander would get stubborn and take back Harbin no matter what. If the opponent could use this surprise force, he would not hesitate to weaken the front.
On the offensive, give up the opportunity to seize Mudanjiang directly and go to Harbin, where there will be no backup plan.
For Lieutenant General Iimura Rang, he always felt that the sneak attack on Harbin by his opponent who often acted irrationally was not that simple at all. Maybe he suffered too much, and he always thought it was a conspiracy. In his opinion, if
The Kwantung Army really insists on recapturing Harbin regardless of the situation, but if it fails, it will fall into the trap of its opponent. Don't really sell two of them and join a bunch of them.
If Iimura Rang knew that Yang Zhen's raid on Harbin was not only for Harbin's talents and industrial facilities, but also to remove the 1st Division in the north that was always a thorn in his back, and also to seize the Duobaoshan copper in Longjiang.
Will you vomit blood if you use mines and the rich oil contained underground? Many times, people tend to complicate simple problems. This is especially true for Iimura Rang, who is the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army.
Maybe it’s because he has suffered too much from Yang Zhen since he took office. No matter what step Yang Zhen takes, he always feels that there is a conspiracy involved. Therefore, he firmly opposes Umezu Yoshijiro’s idea of regaining Harbin, because he has always been a
In his view, as a regular soldier, whether it is a special unit like the Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department or a hub in northern Manchuria, it is not as valuable as a few divisions.
Umezu Yoshijiro finally decided to give up, which made Lieutenant General Iimura Sang relieved. Although Umezu Yoshijiro's plan seemed very unfair to the 51st Division. But if the 51st Division was taken
Compared with the First Division and the more than 200,000 imperial immigrants in Sun Wu territory, the regiment seemed insignificant.
Perhaps judging from the current overall deployment and war situation in Western Manchuria, the 51st Division located in Qiqihar is destined to become an abandoned son. There is no way, although it is also a division organization. But this five-member division will be formed by future military personnel.
Compared with the importance of the 11th Division, which is second only to the Guards Division in the Japanese Army and is known as the First Division of the Japanese Army, the importance of the 11th Division is far behind.
Not to mention that this first division almost gathered most of the military children of the entire Japanese military and political circles, and even many members of the royal family. As far as Iimura Rang knew, there were only a few children of the palace family and relatives, and even
There are dozens of relatives who cannot be reached with eight poles.
If all these people are lost, not to mention His Majesty the Emperor, these big figures in Japan's military and political affairs will not be able to spare General Umezu and himself. To be honest, among the officers of the army under his command, many of them have such and such backgrounds.
Even the titles, big and small, are now in a position that almost seems hopeless. It would be equally uncomfortable for everyone.
If it had been any other division, General Umezu would have been hard-pressed to listen to his advice. However, this First Division was the initiator of being purged from the country and brought to Manchuria after the February 26 Incident.
Your Excellency, the Corps Commander, who was the then Deputy Secretary of the Army. Perhaps this is in line with the saying that you are trapped in a cocoon.
When Umezu Yoshijiro, who served as the Army Deputy Minister, urged the First Division to be moved to Manchuria, he probably would not have thought that it would be today. Iimura Rō bet that the most critical factor that could get Umezu Yoshijiro to nod was this First Division.
As for the regiment, as for the more than 200,000 civilians, it is definitely far less important than the First Division.
And for the Japanese army, which has always not valued the lives of the people of other countries, these more than 200,000 Japanese immigrants are not necessarily more important than the 51st Division. After all, it is wartime now, and more than 10,000 Japanese immigrants are trained for the war.
The importance of well-trained soldiers is far higher than that of more than 200,000 civilians.
But after all, there are more than 200,000 people. Even if he, Umezu Yoshijiro, does not take these people seriously, for the Japanese high-level officials, they cannot take them seriously. After losing the 51st Division, he, Umezu Yoshijiro, has
The emperor's protection may not be a problem. But if more than 200,000 foreign immigrants are really lost, the base camp will not let him go no matter what.
The only reason that made General Umezu Yoshijiro admit defeat was that these more than 200,000 people must have weight, but they would definitely not be as important as the First Division, which the Japanese army had always regarded as a treasure.
In fact, the 51st Division does not necessarily have to fight this battle on its own, which is destined to be fruitless. After all, Hailar is still deploying behind them, a second division that has been upgraded to the first mechanized division in the Kwantung Army.
The 13th Division. Hailar and Qiqihar are only separated by the Xing'an Mountains, which is not a very large slope. If Umezu Yoshijiro wants, he can transfer part of the 23rd Division to reinforce the 51st Division.
But this idea has never occurred to either Umezu Yoshijiro or Iimura Sō. The Kwantung Army is currently weak. Who knows whether the extremely greedy bear in the north will take the opportunity to attack to avoid future troubles? Although the situation in Europe is extremely tense, but
The muscular bear deployed hundreds of thousands of troops on the Manchu-Soviet border, but he still had a clear grasp of the situation.
More than two thousand tanks, armored vehicles and aircraft are a powerful threat to any potential or even apparent opponent. Especially facing an army like the Japanese Army that seems to be half lame.
, the danger is even greater. They had already experienced the power of mechanized warfare in the Nomenhan area last year.
If the 23rd Division is mobilized to reinforce Qiqihar, and that greedy bear who has been peeping at the Xing'an area for a long time takes the opportunity to attack, the Kwantung Army, which is facing a double attack, will really die without knowing how. Last year, the 23rd Division
A major defeat was a major defeat, but right now the Kwantung Army, which was all focused on the east, was the last line of defense in Western Manchuria.
The 23rd Division cannot be mobilized. As a newly formed unit, the 51st Division has not yet been equipped with artillery and some technical arms. It is destined to face the impact of hundreds of opponents' tanks alone. Fortunately, Qiqihar has an important geographical location, except for the 51st Division.
In addition to the 11th Division, there is also the fourth independent garrison of the Kuantong Army and part of the independent mortar brigade.
Although the artillery wing of the division only has one brigade, three independent mortar brigade have been temporarily strengthened, and the firepower is not necessarily that weak. Therefore, although this decision is of great significance to the commander of the 51st Division, Kanichiro Ueno.
It's a bit cruel, but Umezu Yoshijiro is not unkind. He doesn't give less benefits when he should be given, right?
Umezu Yoshijiro finally bowed his head and admitted defeat, which made Iimura Rui breathe a sigh of relief and quickly got busy. Orders were quickly transferred from the Shinkyo Kwantung Army Headquarters to the various divisions that were still fighting at this time. At the same time,
At the expense of interrupting a considerable part of the railway passenger transport, all military columns were mobilized, and despite the constant air attacks from Yang Zhen's command, the 24th Division and part of the 57th Division were transferred to the Shuangcheng territory as quickly as possible.
After issuing a series of orders in succession, Lieutenant General Iimura Rang hesitated for a moment. Faced with the opponent's constant air attacks on major railway lines, he lowered his face and asked for help from the Japanese base camp. He hoped that the base camp could mobilize some aviation and anti-aircraft artillery to the Kwantung Army.
Strengthen the Kwantung Army's air defense capabilities.
Even the hungry Iimura Rang couldn't care less about the conflicts between the Japanese Army and Navy. In the telegram, he revealed that if the Army Air Force was really unable to mobilize troops to support the Kwantung Army, then the base camp was asked to coordinate with the Navy to mobilize part of the Naval Air Force to support the Kwantung Army.
Combat.
In fact, due to the strict confidentiality of the Soviet army, the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army did not know about this matter. The Soviet army in the Far East was no longer comparable to last year. After the end of the first phase of the Yang Zhen campaign, in order to cope with the increasing pressure after the defeat of Britain and France,
The tense situation in Europe is strengthening the defense in the west. The Soviet troops stationed in the Far East Military District and the Zabaikal Military District have gradually begun to move westward.
In June and July alone, the Soviet army transferred one tank division, two infantry divisions, and two flying regiments from the Zabaikal Military Region. One infantry division, one mechanized brigade, and three flying groups from the Far East Military Region. That is to say,
In the two major military regions where the Soviet Army and the Kwantung Army were fighting, only three infantry divisions were mobilized in one go.
Moreover, in order to implement the agreement reached with Yang Zhen, the Far East Military Region and Zabaikal Military Region were ordered to draw 500 T-26 tanks and BT-7 tanks, 130 BA-type armored vehicles and BT-7 tanks from their own reserve equipment and even active equipment.
Some spare parts were maintained, repaired, and necessary modifications were made in accordance with Yang Zhen's requirements, and were prepared to be handed over to Yang Zhen's headquarters in one month. As a result, only one-third of the entire armored force in the entire Far East Military Region was left.
However, in order to maintain the illusion, each transferred unit left a radio unit at its original station to continue communicating with the original call sign to confuse the Japanese troops in front of them. The Soviet troops stationed in Mongolia also did not have any transfers. It is obvious that the Soviet troops
This series of measures worked. The current Kwantung Army was not aware of its opponent, and it was no longer as strong as before this battle. At least the number of armored forces and aviation forces was reduced by half of what it was before.
Naturally, the current situation of the Soviet army is not the concern of the already distressed Lieutenant General Umezu Yoshijiro and Iimura Rō. Their main focus now is on how to keep the First Division and Sun Wu's more than 200,000 expatriates safe.
Withdraw. As for whether the bear in the north who is good at taking advantage of fire is still as fat and strong as at the beginning of the year, they, the two top commanders of the Kwantung Army, can no longer care at this time.
At the risk of his plane being shot down, Lieutenant General Iimura Jo flew to Iimura Jo as planned and finished his conversation with Namada Juichi. He had just returned to the Kwantung Army Headquarters in Shinkyo and was preparing to go to Shuangcheng to supervise Kiichiro Kuchi after a day's rest.
Lieutenant General, while continuing the attack on Shuangcheng, a telegram from Sun Wu made Iimura Rang almost faint.
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