In fact, from the surface, Japan's "Operation No. 1" is what China calls the Battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, and did not use the Kwantung Army stationed in the Northeast.

The Japanese army's plan for "Operation 1" is as follows:

The North China Front Army has invested 4 divisions and launched Henan operations, and it is expected to open the Pinghan Line in one and a half months. The 11th Army in central China is the main force and the No. 11th Army in Guangdong is the auxiliary, and a total of 10 to 12 divisions are invested to launch the Hunan operation, and it is expected to open the middle section of the Guangdong-Han Line in 5 months. With the No. 1 Army as the main force, the Guangxi operation is launched, and the Hunan-Guangxi Line and the southern section of the Guangdong-Han Line are expected to open the Hunan-Guangxi Line and the Guangdong-Han Line in one or two months.

In other words, its source of troops mainly comes from North China, Central China and Guangdong.

However, most of these Japanese troops were fighting in China for a long time, and before launching the "Operation 1" plan, all troops were already in a state of serious shortage.

On the other hand, these about 20 divisions had more than 500,000 troops fighting on the front line, and then a large number of personnel and reserve forces were needed to prepare for supplementary or support logistics on the second line... In this regard, Hideki Tojo invested a lot of money.

The reason why he had to spend a lot of money was that Hideki Tojo knew very well that the victory of the "Operation One" plan was directly related to whether Japan had the capital to continue to fight with the US military, or whether Japan had a decent possibility of negotiations with the US... At this time, Hideki Tojo actually knew that even if he had gained a place in China and dealt with the US military, Japan would have no chance of winning. In addition to saving his life, he also held a hope, that is, to hold the Americans indefinitely on the Chinese battlefield, forcing the Americans to negotiate a ceasefire with Japan, which would also give Japan a step forward to step down.

Therefore, Hideki Tojo can be said to have given his all in the "Operation 1". Before the implementation of the No. 1 operation, he carried out large-scale mobilizations in Northeast China, North China, and central China to plunder the people everywhere to fill military rations. He even transported a large number of supplies from Japan, including roads, bridge engineering personnel and equipment owned by Japan.

The other materials needed for the battle, from field medical equipment to military uniforms and leather shoes, were all available, which was unprecedented in the history of the Japanese war. It can be said that Japan used the whole country's manpower, material resources and financial resources to ensure that such a large-scale battle was won. This made the grain and ammunition reserves of all Japanese troops participating in the war generally reach more than half a year.

But this was only half a year... The real battle between Henan and Hunan and Guangxi took eight months, so in this battle, the Japanese army starved to death and countless deaths were killed.

All of this requires personnel and troops to operate, and the Japanese army has no other unnecessary troops to use, so they extracted 380,000 people from the Kwantung Army, either supplementing them into front-line combat troops, or directly serving as combat troops, or as reserve troops, etc.

The total strength of the Kwantung Army is only about 700,000 troops, and after this, it was transferred... the Kwantung Army is actually in name only.

Therefore, there are many remarks on the modern Internet that the Kwantung Army has not participated in the war, so its strength has been preserved. It was the strongest army after the war... However, the Kwantung Army, as an elite Japanese army, was vulnerable under the attack of the Soviet Red Army and collapsed completely in just over twenty days. This also shows how bad the combat effectiveness of the China * team is.

This point of view is obviously wrong.

The Japanese cannot be so stupid. When they are fighting on the front line until there is almost no one, there is still an elite Kanto Army behind them. The Kanto Army has been moving for a long time, and its troops under them have been dispatched to the front line, but they are not moving as a whole as the "Kanto Army".

If you check the number of the Japanese division under the Japanese Kanto Army with a little careful consideration, you will find a very interesting point:

In the early days, the Kwantung Army had the 1st Division, the 8th Division, the 9th, 10th, and 11th... and the 29th Division ended, and another 57th Division was added.

At the end of the period, the divisions under the Kwantung Army were all above 39, and none of them were duplicated with the initial number.

The potential problems that this comparison illustrates are:

The Kwantung Army in the early stages were all sent to the battlefield, and some even lost their numbers. The Kwantung Army in the later stages was no longer the previous Kwantung Army. Most of them were recruits with no combat experience, and even when the Soviet army started war... The Japanese Kwantung Army hurriedly added 250,000 retired old and weak soldiers into the Kwantung Army. Due to the lack of supplies, some people did not even have rifles. This is the so-called "Kwantung Army Elite" defeated by the Soviet army!

At this time, it was not the Soviet army that faced these Japanese troops, but the Chinese team.

Zhang Chi couldn't help but frown when he looked at the Japanese army distribution map on the map...

"What? Isn't it easy to fight?" Seeing Zhang Chi's expression, Halsey asked.

When dealing with the Japanese Army, Halsey can be said to have no say at all. As a navy, he knows more about the Japanese fighter jets and warships, and almost nothing about the Japanese Army. At the same time, as a US general, he does not understand the Chinese battlefield, so he can consider more about using existing resources to cooperate with Zhang Chi's operations.

"No!" Zhang Chi shook his head, then pointed to the map and said to Halsey: "As we imagined, the Japanese troops stationed in the Northeast were very empty, mainly the nine divisions and five brigades of the Third Front Army, with a total force of more than 300,000!"

"Oh!" Halsey couldn't help but frown: "There are more than 300,000 people? This force is twice that of the CNR team!"

Halsey was right. The Chinese team had only 150,000 troops, including the 6th Army, 53rd Army and 54th Army transferred from China, which was about half of the Japanese army.

If such a force is used to fight against the Japanese army, it is almost unimaginable in China... The * unit must be more than three times the Japanese army's strength to be comparable to the Japanese army, but now it is twice that of the Japanese army. If this algorithm is used, the battle will not be fought.

But Zhang Chi didn't think so.

"It is relatively simple to defeat this Third Front Army!" said Zhang Chi.

"What do you say?" Halsey asked.

Although Halsey did not understand the Chinese battlefield, he also witnessed the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army on the island-capturing battlefield on the Pacific battlefield. When fighting against the Japanese army, the US army often had several times or even dozens of times its strength, and even had a miserable battle with a completely disproportionate advantage of sea and air.

Therefore, Halsey really didn't understand and couldn't believe what Zhang Chi said, defeating the Japanese army with twice the strength would be a simple thing.
Chapter completed!