Chapter 197 Elites advancing south

Deputy Masaki's words made everyone present, including Emperor Hirohito, nodded and agreed. This is true. The Battle of Chengde has become the heart knot of the *** people. The General Staff Headquarters and the subsequent Army Base Camp and Navy Base Camp have made countless deductions in private. How could the result be a failure?

Deputy Masaki looked around and saw that everyone was in deep thought, so he began to promote his own strategy and tactics: "I think! The Kwantung Army should divide its troops into three groups, and use the troops of seven divisions to press on its northern line, threatening the Chaoyang and Chifeng lines of the Rehe River. The main force quickly broke through Shanhaiguan and entered North China to occupy Pingjin. Then, from Tianjin to capture Baoding and head straight to Shijiazhuang, then abandoned the mountains and ridges of Shanxi in the northern line to attack Taiyuan. The other route cooperated with the two divisions landed in Qingdao to attack Jinan. The troops forced the original hinterland Xuzhou to cut off the two major artery railways of Pinghan and Jinpu, and used the troops of no less than five divisions to guard Chengde and Zhangjiakou, so that Zhang Xuewu's

More than 100,000 troops are unable to fight, and our army can use Qingdao and Tianjin Port for supplies. Even if Zhang Xuewu takes a desperate attack on Jinzhou and wants to cut off our supply line, our army will not be affected at all. When our Shanghai dispatched troops to capture Shanghai and take advantage of the situation, the *** government will be forced to withdraw its troops and realize our first strategic concept with North China Autonomy. If the *** Army Zhang Xuewu headquarters is ordered to retreat, our army will also surround and attack on the way, destroy the few elite troops of the *** government, and then concentrate its forces to expel all the *** forces from the south of the Yangtze River to achieve river separation. After resting, use the most sufficient materials to prepare to go north to compete with the Soviet Union for Siberia's oil resources."

Deputy Chief Masaki is a genuine mainland army northbound faction. He does not agree to complete evil relations with Britain and the United States. If the navy advances south, it will play an irreplaceable role. In this way, the Imperial Army will be at an absolute disadvantage. As long as we go north, we can just gain more resources for the army to expand the army. Because in the view of Chief Masaki, it is not necessary for the Great *** Empire to maintain such a huge joint fleet, because the Great *** Empire's joint fleet is

There are no opponents of the same level in Asia and the Pacific, and the joint fleet is still a large consumer. If it were not for the purpose of competing for its so-called oil resources, that is, after occupying Manchuria and autonomy of North China, the Great Empire could have been at ease to plan a 30-year development plan and assimilating Manchuria. However, it is now an era of great changes in the world pattern. No matter who holds a huge fleet with a standard displacement of more than 2 million tons, there is no reason to sit by.

In fact, Deputy Chief Masaki has not said the most critical point, that is, there are too many overlapping institutions in the Navy and Army. For example, if the Chinese Expeditionary Army is established, then according to the establishment and composition of the base camp, the Chinese Expeditionary Army cannot command the Kwantung Army, the Taiwan Army and the Chinese Fleet? The naval aviation in the Chinese Fleet is under the command of the Navy, and the Army Aviation will be divided into two parts: the Kwantung Army and the Chinese Expeditionary Army. This will be like tying one's own hands and feet?

However, Deputy Minister Masaki did not dare to say this easily, because it involved too many interests and disputes. Just take the *** army without the air force, and the rights of the navy and army forces in the country have reached a stalemate. The military government is jointly controlled by both, and the military expenditure is also divided by the two. In this way, there are often internal struggles with irreconcilable forces. How can one allow another person to seize power, money and resources from them? Therefore, the air force can only belong to the army and the navy respectively. In fact, this greatly subverts the strategic role of the air force.

During World War II, *** and Germany made two extreme mistakes. One was to over-sight the existence of the air force, and the other greatly exaggerated the role of the strategic air force. As a result, both of them ended up failing. As the saying goes, the common point of the winner is victory, and the failures of the losers can be said to be diverse and unique.

Emperor Hirohito looked at Deputy Masaki, then looked at Fujiwara Motoyama, Minamijiro and others and said in a deep voice: "Don't you first annihilate Zhang Xuewu's army, trap him in the desolate Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan, separate him from the main force of the Nanjing government army, and minimize his strategic role?"

Emperor Hirohito thought for a long time and said, "What are the plans? Commander-in-Chief Nanjiro, your Kwantung Army will draw 42 divisions to participate in the initial battle. After occupying the *** Hiratsu, 20 to 22 divisions will be drawn to form the North China Expeditionary Army to continue the battle. I want to know how long it will take for the Kwantung Army to invest all its forces to completely eliminate Zhang Xuewu's regiment?"

Nanjiro hesitated for a while, his face was a little purple and embarrassed and said, "Your Majesty! I am not sure how long it will take to completely eliminate Zhang Xuewu's army, because Zhang Xuewu's fortress-like cities are very difficult to conquer. Zhang Xuewu's army guards with heavy troops, which makes our army dare not easily cross. Moreover, Zhang Xuewu's army has more than 200 combat aircraft and even more. Our Kwantung Army Pilot Division

The regiment could not take any advantage at all. It also has at least 150 extremely advanced combat vehicles and more than 300 heavy artillery pieces. It is not inferior to our Kwantung Army in terms of heavy firepower. If we attack cities with such firepower, the casualties of our army can be imagined. As for the time, it is probably difficult to estimate. Moreover, the railways in Rehe, Chahar, Suiyuan and other subsidiaries are extremely developed and have been under the control of Zhang Xuewu for several years. It is difficult for our intelligence agents to penetrate it."

Nanjiro's words made Emperor Hirohito's face look very ugly. Amid the uproar, Nanjiro said a little angrily: "Everyone! This is not a time to show off his impulse. The weapons and equipment of our Great *** Empire Imperial Imperial Army have indeed improved, and it has also been expanded from seventeen standing divisions to eighty-seven divisions. But I would like to ask you to see clearly that our enemies are not idle either. They are expanding their troops even more crazily, especially Zhang Xuewu from Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan, is saving money to buy and create a large amount of arms. According to information, a lot of his funds flowed from Southeast Asia. Faced with such an enemy, we must be cautious! We cannot afford the price of underestimating the enemy."

Minamijiro said, a Japanese chief adviser not far away marked the railway connecting Rehe River to Chahar and Suiyuan with colorful stripes.

Emperor Hirohito looked at Deputy Masaki and then looked at Minamijiro. Undoubtedly, Minamijiro's opinion was very important, because as the commander-in-chief of the Kanto Army, he was undoubtedly the most qualified. He seemed to be impatient about Zhang Xuewu. Emperor Hirohito seemed to suddenly remember something, and turned around to ask Aoki Doichi on the side, saying, "I remember asking the Special Service Section of the General Staff Headquarters to investigate why Zhang Xuewu was so radically opposed to the empire? He even had such deep hatred for the empire? But what are the signs?"

Aoki Doichi was stunned by Emperor Hirohito's question. Ono Izumi, who was in charge of intelligence and common affairs, was not qualified to attend the imperial meeting today. He investigated why Zhang Xuewu hated Japan. Aoki Doichi had only heard of it. Since His Majesty the Emperor asked, wouldn't he betrayal if he didn't say it or didn't know it?

Aoki Doichi frowned slightly and said, "Your Majesty! It is said that it may have been because he was beaten and bullied by *** students in the Empire Tokyo when he was a child, so Zhang Xuewu was extremely angry with Japan!"

"Baga!" Emperor Hirohito slapped the table angrily. The absent-minded generals cheered up and condemned Zhang Xuewu's narrow-mindedness, etc. As a result, Emperor Hirohito blushed because Emperor Hirohito wanted to scold him for being a bastard who was so dying and had to bully Zhang Xuewu? If Zhang Xuewu could turn to the empire, even if he remained neutral, the empire could save at least 100,000 soldiers' lives and countless supplies and ammunition.

Just as *** was making the final arrangement for the imminent war, Zhang Xuewu drew troops from each of his five divisions, and formed the temporary division of the Rehe Legion, honorary troops! Two reinforced heavy artillery brigades equipped with a total of 72 150 mm caliber heavy artillery, and drew an assault brigade equipped with 70 jackal tanks and 100 hound armored vehicles from the mechanized division that Tang Ziqiang had just expanded into the division. He was commanded by the brigade commander Chen Yuxing and Chief of Staff Li Yunfeng into the honorary troops.

In this way, the honorary unit and logistics support personnel reached 35,000 people. This unit can be said to be the blood of the Rehe Legion, and a deportation fleet equipped with thirty-six FB-109 fighter jets in the Air Force also headed to Nanjing at the same time.

In the year before this, Zhang Xuewu had already sent a large amount of ammunition and a small amount of weapons to Nanjing in batches. This time, Zhang Xuewu's big move made many people very confused. Chiang Kai-shek, who was about to train the officer corps in Lushan, was also very confused. Because there were about 500 Huangpu officers who came with the team, and their name was to participate in the Lushan Officer Training Corps. In addition, Zhang Xuewu's performance in the Double Twelve Incident, Chiang Kai-shek was still very relieved about Zhang Xuewu for the time being.

Zhang Xueliang, who followed him back to Nanjing, has now become another heart-wrenching problem for Chiang Kai-shek. Except for the two troops incorporated by Zhang Xuewu, the other former troops of the Northeast Army have been surrendered by the B case and used the rest of the army in dispersed according to the case B. However, his cousin Zhang Xuewu still has an army of more than 100,000 under the banner of the central government. Zhang Xueliang finally handed over his elite direct line, heavy artillery, machine guns, precious metals, etc. to Zhang Xuewu. Naturally, there is no need to explain the meaning of it.

This made Chiang Kai-shek, who was willing to punish Zhang Xueliang, hesitated. It was obviously inappropriate to arrange for him to go abroad. Under the persuasion of his wife Soong Mei-ling, Chiang Kai-shek finally decided to show his generous intentions and let Zhang Xueliang serve as a special advisor in the General Staff Department!
Chapter completed!