Amidst the rapid footsteps, the dusty Okamura Neiji strode into the small conference room surrounded by two colonel officers. Umezu Meijiro, Yoshimoto Teiichi and Tamura Yoshitomi, who had been waiting for a long time, quickly stood up and applauded.
Welcome, Umezu Yoshijiro quite welcomes the arrival of Okamura Neji.
Okamura Neiji was not polite, exchanged a few hurried greetings, and then asked directly: "Umezu-kun, how is Beiping?"
"Beiping has been lost." Before Umezu Yoshijiro could answer, Tamura Yoshitomi said first, "The frenzied Chinese army launched tens of thousands of gasoline and incendiary bombs at Beiping City. The entire Beiping City was burned into a pile of rubble. The North China Front Army
The commander, General Hata Shunroku, the Imperial Army soldiers who defended the city, and hundreds of thousands of overseas Chinese... were collectively shattered!"
Okamura Neji's expression suddenly darkened when he heard this. Although such a result had been expected for a long time, when it really happened, he still found it emotionally difficult to accept it. Once upon a time, the unstoppable force that showed off its power on the battlefield in China was
The Japanese Imperial Army actually fell into the miserable situation of being roasted alive?
Yoshimoto Teiichi continued: "If Peking is lost, Tianjin may not be able to hold it either."
Umezu Yoshijiro finally said: "Okamura-kun, Peiping has been lost, and Tianjin may not be able to hold on for a few more days. However, in five days at most, the cold wave in Siberia will move south. By then, our heavily mechanized force group of the Kwantung Army will be able to
We have entered the border in a big way, and North China is still in the possession of the Japanese Empire!"
"No." Okamura Neiji waved his hand and said solemnly, "The Kwantung Army cannot attack!"
"What?" Yoshimoto Teiichi and Tamura Yoshitomi looked at each other and said, "Can't attack!?"
"Yes, the Kwantung Army must not take the initiative to attack!" Okamura Neiji said this, and then said, "Now that Peiping has been lost, the war in North China is over. There is no need for the Kwantung Army to go south again, and the chance of winning is slim. It is urgent.
, taking advantage of the cold current going south and the Chinese Air Force being unable to take off, to fully operate the South Manchuria defense line!"
"What?" Umezu Yoshijiro frowned, "Fully run the South Manchuria defense line?"
"Umezu-kun, the judgments of meteorological experts may not be reliable." Okamura Neiji patiently analyzed, "Even if the bad weather in North China will last for more than four weeks, and even if the China Air Force cannot launch bombing, the Kwantung Army's
Are the armored clusters and heavy artillery clusters really sure to severely damage Yue Weihan's main forces in the four fields within four weeks?"
Tamura Yoshitomi said: "Our Kwantung Army has absolute superiority in firepower and troop strength. Why are we not sure?"
"But what if Yue Weihan's main force avoids fighting and just circles with the imperial army on the North China Plain?" Okamura Neiji said, "Five years ago, Yue Weihan's troops only had less than 100,000 troops and no equipment.
It’s so bad that it’s unspeakable, and it’s already made half a million elite soldiers of the imperial army miserable, let alone now?”
After saying this, Okamura Neiji said solemnly: "Tamura-kun, we cannot wishfully think that when the main force of the Kwantung Army moves southward in a big way, the China Army will also form tit-for-tat battles with them just because the China Army is on the offensive.
We, the Kwantung Army, will fight to the death. This is unwise and stupid, and it will cost us blood!"
Umezu Yoshijiro and the other three were immediately speechless. It was indeed wishful thinking to expect the national army to engage in a strategic decisive battle with the main force of the Kwantung Army when its military strength and firepower were at an absolute disadvantage, and the air force was unable to launch bombings.
The army may not be able to capture the main force of the national army, but this is full of variables after all.
After a long while, Yoshimoto Teiichi said: "But, do we have any other choice?"
Tamura Yoshitomi also said: "If Manchuria is trapped, after the China Army has repaired Beiping, Tianjin and Tanggu, Qingdao airport and port, Burma's China reserve troops and arms will be continuously transported to North China, and the bombers of the China Air Force will continue to be transported to North China.
The Kwantung Army can even carry out unbridled bombings on factories, ports and airports in Manchuria and the empire. How can we fight this war? If things go on like this, even if the Kwantung Army has five million people, it will still be unable to defend Manchuria, and the empire will undoubtedly be defeated!
"
Umezu Yoshijiro also said slowly: "Yes, the Empire of Japan has no choice."
"No." Okamura Neji suddenly raised his hands and said, "The empire still has hope, and the Kwantung Army has a better choice!"
After that, Okamura Neiji strode to the military terrain map posted on the wall, and immediately pointed to the map and said: "The better choice is to shrink the troops and fully operate the South Manchuria Defense Line, just like we operated the North Manchuria Defense Line back then.
In this way, we are going all out to operate the South Manchuria defense line, and while the China Air Force is unable to take off, we are also going all out to repair the airports and ports in Peiping, Tianjin, and Tanggu, hoard supplies, and gather troops. We will dig out the southeastern branch of Yanshan Mountain and all the peaks of Changbai Mountain.
Empty, build them all into fortresses!"
"In the coastal plain of the Liaoxi Corridor and the Liaodong Peninsula, we will also build hundreds of thousands of miles of tunnels, which will also be reinforced with reinforced concrete to build an underground Great Wall that is rare in the world. In a word, we will build the Liaoxi
, the throat of Liaodong became the tomb of the China Army, completely burying the elite China troops commanded by Yue Weihan, and then... Xu Tu counterattacked again!"
At that time, in order to prevent the Soviet Red Army from marching south, the Japanese army hollowed out thousands of peaks in the mountains of northern Manchuria and built a solid defense line of more than 2,000 kilometers on the Manchurian-Mongolian and Manchurian-Soviet borders. At that time, it could be said that
It is impregnable, but times have changed, and now the fortifications hidden deep in the mountains of northern Manchuria have long been abandoned.
Yoshimoto Teiichi retorted: "Even if we manage Southern Manchuria with impregnable strength, how can we resist the bombing of the China Air Force?"
"I have also thought of a countermeasure for this." Okamura Neiji had obviously been prepared for it, and said calmly at the moment, "We can build a large number of radar stations in the Liaodong Peninsula, Liaoxi Corridor and deep in the Yanshan Mountains, so that North China
However, if the China Air Force takes any action, we can give timely warning. If the China Air Force dispatches a fighter group, it can use an anti-aircraft artillery group to deal with it. If the China Air Force dispatches a bomber group, it will immediately dispatch all the fighter jets of the air force to kill them with all their strength. As long as the China Air Force's
The cost of bombing is higher than the benefit, and its subsequent bombing operations are bound to be restrained."
Umezu Meijiro nodded imperceptibly when he heard this, seeming to be moved.
Speaking of which, Japan's radar technology is actually not lagging behind that of the Western world. As early as a year before Britain and Germany developed real military radars, the Japanese scientific community had actually mastered the core technology of radar. Unfortunately, the Japanese military base camp did not
By attaching great importance to the development of electronic technology, we missed the opportunity to lead the world trend.
In the Pacific War, an important reason for the defeat of the Japanese Navy was that radar technology was inferior to that of the U.S. Navy!
If the weather is clear, you can rely on reconnaissance aircraft to detect the enemy, and both sides have equal opportunities. However, once severe weather conditions occur or at night, the reconnaissance aircraft will become blind or deaf. Then with advanced radar technology, the U.S. Navy can at least
The Japanese navy could be detected fifty kilometers in advance, which gave the U.S. Navy a great advantage.
The Japanese Army on the Chinese battlefield rarely had to face bombing by the Chinese Air Force, so it did not pay attention to the use of radar at all.
The Japanese army in Nanyang in the Southeast Asian battlefield attached great importance to the application of radar. Unfortunately, the time left by the Allied forces to the Japanese army was too short. Before the Japanese army could build a complete radar chain, Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force launched a rapid counterattack.
The Japanese aviation force was quickly annihilated, and then the opportunity to build a radar station was completely lost.
However, the situation faced by the Kwantung Army now is very different from that of the Japanese Army in Nanyang.
First of all, the current air defense firepower of the Kwantung Army is far incomparable to that of the Japanese army in Nanyang. Secondly, the Kwantung Army still has enough time to build radar base stations. Finally, and most importantly, as long as the Kwantung Army does not take the initiative to go south, I am afraid that the Chinese army will
He will not rush to attack, at least he will not act rashly until he is fully prepared.
In other words, the Kwantung Army had enough time to operate the South Manchu defense line.
However, Tamura Yoshitomi was not persuaded and still retorted: "What if the Chinese army bypassed the South Manchuria defense line and landed directly in Liaodong Bay or the Liaodong Peninsula? In this case, wouldn't the South Manchuria defense line that we have worked so hard to build become the same as France?
Has a face-saving guy like the Maginot Line become a big joke?"
"Landing in Liaodong Bay, Liaodong Peninsula?" Okamura Neiji was speechless and didn't even bother to explain.
Although Tamura Yoshitomi became the Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Kwantung General Army, his strategic vision is very lacking. With the Kwantung Army's more than 2 million elite infantry, more than 3,000 tanks, and more than 5,000 heavy artillery pieces, if the Chinese army really
If you dare to force a landing in Liaodong Bay or Liaodong Peninsula, you will definitely die as many as you come!
Liaodong Bay is not Singapore, let alone the Shanghai Bund, and the Kwantung Army is not the Southern Army!
Before seizing absolute air supremacy, if the Chinese army really wants to forcibly seize a beach in Liaodong Bay or the Liaodong Peninsula, without filling in two or three million people, I am afraid that it will not be able to even secure a decent beachhead position. The counterattack of the Kwantung Army armored group will
How can the assault and the concentrated bombing of heavy artillery clusters be just decoration?
What's more, the Chinese Navy's force projection capability is still quite limited. It can only project one regiment of troops to the front line at a time. With this kind of projection capability, it is impossible to seize the beach in the heavily guarded and heavily trooped Liaodong Bay.
After landing, even if you want to land on the west coast of North Korea, which has relatively weak defenses, it may not be that easy.
However, Okamura Ningji never believed that Chinese troops would land on the west coast of North Korea.
Because Changbai Mountain is also within the South Manchurian Defense Line, even if the Chinese army occupied North Korea, it would still be unable to cross the natural barrier of Changbai Mountain, and it would still be unable to enter Manchuria. At most, it would cut off the connection between Manchuria and the mainland. However,
For the empire, this difficulty is not insurmountable.
"Of course it's not possible to land in Liaodong Bay, but what if we take a detour to the Mongolian Plateau?" Yoshimoto Sadaiichi asked again.
"That's not possible." Okamura Ningji said solemnly, "The contest between the Kwantung Army and the China Army is completely a contest between mechanized and heavy equipment. The infantry is no longer the decisive force, and there are no roads on the Mongolian Plateau.
, let alone railways, how to provide logistical support for the China Army’s mechanized heavy equipment?”
After saying that, Okamura Ningji patted the map again and said loudly: "At least within five years, if the Chinese Army wants to enter Manchuria, it will have to attack Liaoxi Zukuo! As for five years later, the US and British coalition forces will
I'm afraid that if they are defeated in the European battlefield, the German army will invade Burma through Asia Minor, the Middle East and even India. Once Burma is lost, Yue Weihan's army will become a rootless fly. How can it compete with my Kwantung Army?"
When Neji Okamura said this, Umezu Yoshijiro suddenly had a sudden enlightenment.
It was originally thought that Japan's military resources had been exhausted, the national economy was on the verge of collapse, and the final defeat seemed inevitable. However, with Okamura Neiji's in-depth and simple analysis, things seemed to be turning around again. It seemed that as long as
If the Kwantung Army can hold Manchuria, Japan still has a chance to turn defeat into victory.
However, Umezu Yoshijiro was still a little worried and said: "Okamura-kun, even if our Kwantung Army fully operates the South Manchuria defense line, can we really hold Manchuria for five years? You must know that our Kwantung Army's aviation is at an absolute disadvantage.
With dozens or hundreds of radar stations, it may be difficult to really reverse the situation."
"The radar station alone will definitely not work. Over time, or after the China Army has suffered several losses, the secret will definitely be discovered." Okamura Neiji nodded and said, "However, I don't expect that.
A hundred radar stations can offset the air superiority of the China Army. Haven't the Germans already promised to support our jets? It could be as soon as three months or as late as six months. These jets will definitely be in place. With jets
, don’t have too many, just two teams of 200 jets, coupled with radar base stations, the sky over Manchuria will become a no-fly zone for the China Air Force!”
Umezu Yoshijiro finally gave up his last doubts and said nothing more.
Tamura Yoshitomi, who had just come to his senses, suddenly said: "What if the Chinese army directly attacks the mainland of the empire? Although there are many coastal fortresses in the mainland, the troops left behind are not even reserve forces. They are either old people or children.
Why don't we just make them all women? How can such an army fight against the Chinese army?"
At this time, Okamura Neji also fell into a long silence.
What Tamura Yoshitomi is worried about is exactly what Okamura Neji cannot solve.
With the Kwantung Army in Manchuria, it will be impregnable for at least five years, but no one can guarantee it on the Japanese mainland. Once the Chinese army is determined and really wants to forcibly seize the beach on the Japanese mainland, even if its naval capacity is insufficient, it still has
Maybe the risk is successful, but if this happens, the whole country will have no choice but to relocate.
Fortunately, the four mainland islands are narrow and resource-poor, and are often hit by hurricanes, earthquakes and other disasters. Compared with the fertile and wild Manchuria, it is really not a pity to abandon it. In fact, after the destruction of the Japanese navy, the Japanese army
The base camp is already considering "landing" matters, and many local factories, schools and institutions have already moved to Manchukuo.