Victory seemed to be not far away indeed. At the same time, the Japanese Kyushu Island and the Chinese Ryukyu Group Army's troops arrived in Saga. In Shenyang, the Chinese army had captured all the peripheral towns around Shenyang. The next step is With the siege of Shenyang on all sides, the more than 100,000 Kwantung Army in Shenyang will become a turtle in the urn. The Kwantung Army in Shenyang will still be able to survive, while the North China Front Army in Jinzhou will now have no resistance against the Eighth Army's attack. .
The new rocket launcher allocated by the Supreme Command became the last straw to overwhelm the Jinzhou war situation. In the words of Okamura Neiji, Zhang Xueliang had a very bad conscience. The Eighth Army clearly had an overwhelming advantage in weapons, equipment and troops. It was entirely possible to use positional warfare to move forward, but he blindly relied on artillery superiority, "clearly wanting to wipe out the entire North China Front."
Zhang Xueliang did have this idea. In fact, if there is enough time, this will be a common method used by the Chinese army in the last battle in Northeast China. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Changchun waiting for rescue inside, and the United States and the Soviet Union outside. Britain was worried that in order to resolve the battle as soon as possible, in many places, the Chinese army could only adopt a life-for-life strategy.
At this point in the unprecedented battle between China and Japan, Neji Okamura and Otsuzo Yamada actually knew that Japan was at its end. However, one because the base camp refused to admit defeat, and the other because of the Japanese troops in Southeast Asia. With the sudden rise of the army, Okamura Neji and Yamada Otsuzo had some luck in their hearts, so the battle was extremely long and cruel.
The west gate of Changchun City has been the defense area of the Northeastern Japanese Liberation Army since the end of January 1946. With Ding Yi's temperament, he actually did not dare to fully trust this army, which was almost entirely composed of Japanese troops. However, because the Japanese offensive exceeded The situation was tight, and many accidents had occurred in the mixed defense between Chinese and Japanese troops. In order to last longer, this decision was made after listening to the opinions of Zhang Xuyun and Daping Yima.
Facts have proved that his decision was correct.
The Japanese are less tolerant of rebellion than the Chinese. Therefore, although there are cases where the Japanese army rebels again, this is just an isolated phenomenon. On the contrary, because of the fear of being liquidated after the war, the Japanese Northeast Liberation Army appears to be more reluctant to fight. They were brave, and in many cases, their determination to resist was even greater than that of the Puppet Manchukuo National Defense Force.
"The human heart is always fleshy (what Zhang Xuyun said when he was doing ideological work for the Japanese)". Since the "Japanese Liberation Army" is determined to resist Japan, Ding Yi naturally has to look at them differently. Therefore, from the beginning of this month, the "Japanese Liberation Army" not only began to Enjoy "national treatment", that is, the same food supply as Chinese soldiers and civilians in Changchun City, and units that perform well will also receive cigarettes, beer, cola and other additional benefits that only Chinese soldiers are eligible to enjoy.
As a former senior officer in the Kwantung Army, Kazuma Otsubo was more aware of the Japanese army's methods of dealing with rebels. Moreover, as he had more contact with Chinese military officers, he learned more about "New China" and was shocked by the rise of China. In addition to his rapid speed, he has realized that if Japan wants to continue to exist, it is inevitable to hug China's lap.
Kazuma Otsubo, as the highest-ranking official in the Japanese army, naturally became the "spiritual leader" of the Japanese officers and soldiers in the Northeastern Japanese Liberation Army. It was due to his influence that the Northeastern Japanese Liberation Army was going further and further on the road of treason.
"The first regiment can't hold on any longer, let the second regiment move in." In the headquarters of the Japanese Liberation Army in Northeast China, Zhang Xuyun gave the order to Daping Yima while the Japanese army paused their attack.
Kazuma Otsubo immediately conveyed his order through the walkie-talkie. Soon, more than a thousand Japanese troops in camouflage uniforms rushed out from the ruins of the house to the left of the headquarters. After they arrived at the city wall, the seven surviving members of the first regiment More than a hundred "fake Japanese soldiers" (a nickname given to the 'Japanese Liberation Army' by local residents) dragged their exhausted bodies with them.
Kazuma Otsubo looked at his men who had withdrawn, frowned and said, "It seems that Itagaki Seishiro has really made up his mind this time."
"So what? We have survived the plague. Are the Japanese more terrifying than the plague?" Zhang Xuyun said, raising his head and glancing out the window.
"There were a lot of casualties today."
"It's just the last bit of madness. If you survive this moment, you'll be in ruins later."
Kazuma Otsubo shook his head and said nothing. Zhang Xuyun was named the commander of the Northeast Japanese Liberation Army, but as a Chinese, he would not care about the casualties of the troops. Kazuma Otsubo was different, not only because of his Japanese identity, but also because of this The army placed his political ambitions on him.
To this day, it is an open secret that the Chinese government's attempt to control Japan through the Japanese army is an open secret, and because there is a larger Japanese Peace Army in addition to the Japanese Liberation Army in Northeast China, it is very difficult for the politically ambitious Otsubo Ichi. For Ma Liang, he naturally does not want his political capital to suffer too many casualties before completely "liberating" Japan.
Because of Itagaki Seishiro's reckless attack, Otsubo Kazuma was suffering terribly. What he didn't know was that compared to him, Itagaki Seishiro, the initiator of this war, was even more miserable.
It had been more than three months since the Japanese troops had sent in reinforcements to besiege Changchun. Through these three months of intermittent fighting, Itagaki Seishiro already knew how hard the bones he faced were.
Compared to Kazuma Otsubo, Itagaki Seishiro had greater ambitions, and among them, being the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army was the first step in realizing his ambitions.
However, because the intensity of the war far exceeded expectations and the development of the war situation exceeded the expectations of the Japanese base camp, his plan to replace Yamada Otsuzo has not been realized.
The Sino-Japanese War has progressed to this point, especially when the situation has begun to reverse. Japan has changed from being the initial controller of the situation to a passive target. The anti-war forces in Japan finally have the power to speak out again.
In Japan, from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese war to the present, there have always been anti-war voices among the civil servant group. There may be some vested interests among them who vocally oppose it but actually enjoy its gains, but generally they all hold firm to the war. They have a conservative attitude and are worried that this war will drag Japan into an unpredictable abyss. When Japan controls the situation, militarism controls everything, and they dare not say anything. But now, when the country is dragged into the quagmire by this war, in When Hirohito also began to be skeptical about the war, they thought their opportunity had arrived, so they all stood up to criticize the established policies of Tojo Hideki's cabinet, and some even asked him to step down immediately.
Forced by this, Tojo Hideki needed a victory to consolidate his position as prime minister, and taking Changchun in a short period of time became his mandatory task for Seishiro Itagaki.