"First!" Zhang Chi explained: "This Japanese Third Front Army is not a regular army..."

While talking about Zhang Chi, he handed over a document and said: "Based on the information we obtained, the third Japanese Army of the Army has always believed that the task of the Japanese army was to maintain the public security in Manchuria. The source of the army was that the Japanese army summoned young Japanese settlers in Manchuria to form a division. The entire army was not very good at weapons and combat training. Therefore, this Army of the Front Army has the nickname "weak force" among the Japanese army!"

The "reclamation households" mentioned here refer to the Japanese government's formulation of the "Plan for Immigrating Millions of Agricultural Immigration Households to Manchuria".

The plan aims to immigrate 1 million households and 5 million people in 20 years. It is stipulated that from the September 18th Incident in 1931, every five years will be the period, and the number of immigrants from Japan to Manchuria will increase periodically. The first period is 100,000 households, the second period is 200,000 households, the third period is 300,000 households, and the fourth period is 400,000 households...

Although it has only been twelve years, only two periods should have been completed, and the third period is in progress. In fact, the plan has exceeded the fourth period. The number of Japanese people immigrated to Northeast China has exceeded 800,000 households and about 4 million.

This is because Japanese immigrants have super-national treatment and generous benefits in Northeast China... Japanese immigrants can acquire the land of Chinese people at extremely low prices in Northeast China, and then sublease the land to Chinese farmers to cultivate, which is actually a landlord.

When Japanese farmers become landlords when they arrive in China, why not do it? So the Japanese moved from Japan to Northeast China, fearing that they would not "acquire" more land.

This is what Japan calls the "development group"

This plan can be said to be a countermeasure for the Japanese army to solve the military rations, or it can be said to be a means for the Japanese army to completely rule China and oppress the Chinese.

Therefore, before launching the war of aggression against China, the Japanese must have made a detailed understanding of Chinese history and made sufficient preparations, because this plan is actually the "military farming system" implemented by China since the Han Dynasty.

The third front of the Japanese army was the soldiers recruited from these 4 million immigrants.

Listening to Zhang Chi's explanation, Halsey nodded: "This may be the reason why the Third Front Army was not sent to the battlefield and continued to stay in the Northeast! However, their troops have more than 300,000, and there are always some troops with outstanding combat effectiveness, not to mention that they have fortification defense. Has the colonel considered these factors?"

"Of course!" Zhang Chi replied: "For example, the 39th Division is an elite unit left by the Japanese... or it can also be said to be a model unit of the Third Front Army!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but pause. He was not unfamiliar with the 39th Division of the Japanese army. This division was not composed of Japanese immigrants, it was a unit composed of Hiroshima... The reason why Zhang Chi was familiar with it was because this division was the Japanese division that killed the famous anti-Japanese general Zhang Zizhong on the battlefield of Xiangyang a few years ago.

The fate of this division in history was quite miserable. After they were defeated and captured by the Soviet army, most of them were taken to Siberia for hard work.

Zhang Chi came back to his senses and continued: "The problem with the Japanese is... they must use more than 300,000 troops to defend the puppet Manchukuo for more than one million square kilometers. The Japanese have a great appetite, and the Chinese people located in the Northeast often cause trouble for the Japanese. In order to be able to fully control the Northeast, the Japanese dispatched soldiers to every township or even every village..."

As he said that, Zhang Chi flipped through the documents, took out one and handed it to Halsey, and then continued: "As mentioned above, the Japanese army in many places only had one squad or even a few people. They controlled the puppet army, namely the "Manchurian Army", and then controlled the Chinese people. This control method is obviously very fragile. More importantly, it caused the Japanese troops to be very dispersed and it was easy for us to defeat them!"

Halsey looked at the document and nodded in agreement.

Then Halsey asked again: "Then... Colonel, what are you worried about?"

Zhang Chi shook his head and smiled bitterly: "If our problem is just to enter the Northeast, then the problem will be simple. I believe that the third Japanese army's army cannot stop our attack at all. But there is a saying that 'It is easy to attack the city and it is difficult to defend the city'... How to defend it is the difficulty!"

"You are right!" Halsey looked at the map and said, "Northeast is the Japanese's logistics center. The Japanese's steel, coal mines and even arsenals are in the Northeast. It produces the weapons, equipment and shells of almost all the troops they fought in China. Once you take it down here... In fact, before you can take them down, the Japanese will dispatch troops to surround you!"

"That's what I'm worried about!" Zhang Chi nodded: "And the Japanese can be at least several directions to mobilize troops back to the Northeast. One is in the direction of China, where there are 500,000 troops attacking Chinese troops, and a large number of elite Kanto troops as reserves. The other direction is North Korea, where the 17th Front Army of Japan is stationed. And North Korea... Because it has been under the rule of Japan for a long time, the Japanese army can even form troops from North Korea, that is to say... the North Korean direction has sufficient ability to send troops to the Northeast and form a double-sided attack with the Japanese army in the direction of China. In other words, we have no defense depth at all, and we must fight on both sides at the same time!"

"Is there a way to solve it?" Halsey asked.

Zhang Chi just smiled and replied: "We must push the plan backwards, I need time to prepare!"

What Zhang Chi didn't know was that while Zhang Chi and Halsey were discussing the battle situation, other people were also paying attention to this information. They were Roosevelt and MacArthur.

"General MacArthur!" Roosevelt asked MacArthur: "Do you think the Chinese are likely to win?"

MacArthur was an army general with rich combat experience, so Roosevelt believed it was necessary to listen to MacArthur's opinions.

Roosevelt was a smart man. He would not go all the way to the dark. He was thinking in his head... If the Chinese could not do it, he had to consider contacting the Soviets again.

MacArthur flipped through the documents while holding his pipe, shook his head from time to time, and replied: "Mr. President, I can only say that... If the Chinese can do it and achieve the strategic goals we expected, then... they should be the invincible troops in this world!"

(To be continued.)
Chapter completed!