It has been more than a year or two since the Japanese Army men headed by Tojo Hideki wanted to enter the cabinet. However, because of the emergence of Koizumi Minichiro, a time traveler, Yoneuchi Mitsumasa seemed to have obtained a golden finger that could open cheats. He was stunned. He sat in the position of Prime Minister for three years, but he did not allow Hideki Tojo to find an opportunity. When the situation in the Pacific War was reversed by the Allies, Tojo Hideki finally sat on the throne of Prime Minister. His original intention was to do something big. A battle that completely reversed the unfavorable situation in the Chinese battlefield and the Pacific battlefield, thus putting the empire on a new track. However, military is not something that can only be done with enthusiasm. Take the Chinese battlefield in Central China and the East China battle. It is said that when Ishihara Kanji was the commander, he reduced his troops, and although the Xuebing Army successively recovered most of Jiangsu and Anhui, because he concentrated his troops together, Dan Renxiong and Li Tieshu could not find the opportunity to attack. , Therefore, the situation at that time was that although the Xuebing Army repeatedly regained lost ground and took the initiative, it actually failed to kill many Japanese troops. Later, due to the increase in the number of recovered areas, Shan Renxiong and Li Tieshu had to stay behind in the local area, resulting in a loss of strength. Instead, they were cautious at every step, fearing that the leading soldiers would fall into a trap of the Japanese army if they rushed in. In the two lakes area, because Ishihara Wanji directly asked Anan Weiji to abandon the border area between the two lakes and retreat directly to the three towns of Wuhan, so Marshal Zhang and He Although Zheng Jiang easily regained Jiangxi and Hunan, they failed to seize the opportunity to severely damage the Japanese army. In the later stage, they also became cautious, and they would inevitably plan their retreat every time they took a step forward.
This series of seemingly cowardly arrangements by Ishihara Kanji is actually the best way to offset the current sharp offensive of the Academy Army. However, this obviously does not satisfy Tojo Hideki, not to mention that he and Ishihara Kanji still have irreconcilable differences. His personal conflict was due to the need for his new official to have the three major goals in office. He also needed the performance of the Central China Front Army to prove what a wise decision Hirohito made to let him take over the cabinet. Ishihara Kanji was recalled to Tokyo and continued to work as a staff officer. In order to repay the kindness of Tojo Hideki, his successor Anami Yuki began to make drastic adjustments to the strategies formulated by Ishihara. Well, in East China and Central China, under his orders, Takashi Sakai first The 23rd Army fought bravely out of Xuzhou, and then Hengshan Yong's 11th Army launched an attack on Yueyang. The Japanese army's move could be said to have hit Li Tieshu and Marshal Zhang, and He Zheng surrendered.
Ishihara Wanji blindly reduced his troops, which made Li Tieshu, Marshal Zhang and He Zhengjiang feel like they were hit with nothing. As their troops became more and more dispersed, they did not dare to advance rashly. This made them naturally Having suppressed their anger, the Japanese army launched a massive counterattack at this time. This coincided with the moment when all the officers and soldiers of the Fujian Army and Jiangxi Army were sharpening their swords. The result can be imagined. In the Xuzhou area, Sakai Takabe's initial counterattack was vigorous. Suzhou, Mengcheng, and Fuyang were conquered in three days. Sakai Takamasa organized war reporters to report the victory with great fanfare and reported the victory to the base camp. Suddenly, an emergency report came from Xuzhou, saying that it had been raided by a superior military force. Sakai Takashi was shocked and was thinking about it. The whole army turned around and fought back to Xuzhou. Rao Guohua led two divisions of mechanized troops to appear in Si County and attacked Suzhou with an overwhelming force. In Funan County, two divisions of regular troops led by Li Tieshu personally combined more than 30,000 soldiers. The local anti-Japanese guerrillas also raised their flags. It was Fox Shisan's Santai guerrilla column that raided Xuzhou. What Sakai Takashi didn't know was that as early as when he had reduced his troops to Xuzhou, Fox Shisan's Santai guerrilla column had Scattered and penetrated into Peixian, Zaozhuang, Xiapi and other places, just waiting for him to sell the flaws.
Looking at all the ranks of the Xuebing Army, Fox Thirteen's Santai guerrilla column is definitely a weird one. The reason why I say this is because of its expansion speed. When Fox Thirteen left the Santai area, he only brought out less than 20,000 people. , but now, the number of troops under his command has exceeded 80,000. The reason for this situation is naturally related to Fox Shisan’s ability to recruit local guerrilla armed forces. Fox Shisan’s own reputation and characteristics, coupled with the Xue Bingjun Everywhere he went, he raised a big flag and shouted, and local guerrilla armed forces came to surrender one after another. Coupled with some of the Peace Army and local security forces who had abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side, the Santai guerrilla column was like blowing up a balloon. Monthly time has expanded nearly five times,
In Central China, Isamu Yokoyama's 11th Army and Takashi Sakai's 23rd Army were in similar situations. At the beginning of the 11th Army's counterattack against Yueyang, the wind went smoothly and they "annihilated" the two military divisions in the city in just one day and night. Then, Hengshan Yong divided his troops into two groups, attacking Yiyang all the way and fighting all the way to Changde. When Sakai Takashi's 23rd Army was surrounded by Li Tieshu, Rao Guohua, Liu Yuqing and Hu Shisan in the Fuyang and Mengcheng areas, their 23rd Army The 11th Army was also cut into three sections by Marshal Zhang and He Zhengjiang. After he finally broke out of the siege and returned to the three towns of Wuhan at the cost of about 20,000 people, the 150,000 National Defense Forces led by Li Jiayu left Ankang, Shiyan, Xiangyang has been captured by launching a surprise attack. Li Jiayu's troops are all newly reorganized National Defense Forces, half of which are American weapons and half of which are military standard equipment. As the army captured Suizhou and Xinyang, in fact, the remainder of the Eleventh Army has been surrounded by three towns in Wuhan,
In just one month, the situation in East China and Central China was completely corrupted. Tojo Hideki's three fires burned his own butt before they even started.
For the defeat of the war in East China and Central China, Tojo Hideki could still place the blame on Ishihara Kanji, the former commander of the Central China Front. However, as the Japanese troops participating in the Qinling Raiders in the northwest were divided and surrounded in Chengdu, Xi'an and Qingyang, the general was destroyed. It's just a matter of time, but he can't shirk his responsibility no matter what.
Shijiazhuang, Okamura Neiji's headquarters, as a new telegram was sent from Tokyo, asking him to find a way to rescue the Japanese troops in Xi'an, Okamura Neiji suddenly felt mentally and physically exhausted.
"Give me another three years, I can turn North China into the second North Korea, but..." Okamura held the telegram in his hand, stared at Xi'an on the map, and said bitterly,
The reason why Okamura Neiji agreed to launch the Qinling Strategy was because he wanted to use China to control China. When he thought about it at the beginning, it would be best if the Qinling Strategy could succeed and solve the China Incident once and for all. But if it failed, it would also He won enough time to soften North China. As a China expert, Okamura Neiji insisted that if he wanted to completely rule China, he could only implement the policy of using China to control China like the Jurchens did. Therefore, his positioning of the troops under his command was , although it is an occupier, it should also be a builder. Only in this way can it win the support of the vast majority of the Chinese people, and then over time, the Chinese people can get used to the existence of the imperial army, just like they are used to being ruled by the Jurchens.