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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 2380 Nanjiro¡¯s Dilemma

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    The flames of war in the Liaodong Peninsula have subsided for three or four days. Although there is no news from Major General Katayama, the former chief of staff of the Seventh Army and later acting commander of the Seventh Army, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Nanjiro, knows.  , I am afraid that Major General Katayama will also be shattered by the empire, and the Liaodong Peninsula will not be protected.

    The news that followed continuously confirmed his judgment. Zhuanghe fell, Xiongyue fell, Gaizhou fell, and Anton fell. The independent division troops that landed from Lushunkou made such rapid progress that they greatly surpassed General Nanjiro.  In his opinion, the remnants of the Seventh Army and more than 80,000 Manchurian Volunteer Team members can at least block the landing troops of the Independent Division in the Liaodong Peninsula for more than a week!

    However, the development of the battle situation caught General Nanjiro unexpectedly. Within about four days, the front lines of the independent division troops were approaching Fengtian. However, the troops forming the third line of defense south of Fengtian were still secretly  Among the mobilizations, the fastest force was only one division plus an independent mixed brigade to reach the area south of Fengtian. With only such a small force, General Nanjiro did not think that he could prevent the independent division from attacking Fengtian.  .

    Fengtian is the heartland of Manchukuo, and its military and economic value even exceeds that of Xinjing, the capital of Manchukuo. If Fengtian falls, Manchuria will be shaken, and Manchuria will be shaken, which will affect the imperial army in the Far East.  His Royal Highness Prince Zai Ren personally commanded the battle. General Nanjiro, who was familiar with the inside story of politics, asked himself that he could not bear such a big responsibility. If Manchuria fell to the hands of that Chinese devil, a prince and more than 500,000 imperial soldiers would be killed.  .  Buried in the Far East, he was considered to have eight heads.  It¡¯s not enough for His Majesty the Emperor to cut!

    General Nanjiro called Prince Zairen many times and made sincere suggestions to immediately end the current stalemate with Liu Tiehan's East Command troops in the Far East. All the Imperial Far East dispatched troops should be withdrawn into Manchuria and join the Kwantung Army to help defend Manchuria.  Locally, this is the best policy.

    Prince Zain¡¯s call back.  He fully affirmed General Nanjiro's suggestion, and also planned to return to Manchuria. However, the key to the problem was that Liu Tiehan, deputy commander of the independent division, commanded more than 600,000 troops and tightly entangled the Far East Expeditionary Force.  At this point in the war, Prince Zai Ren also fully understood that the purpose of Liu Tiehan's East Command troops was to drag the Far East Dispatch Army to the Far East.

    Although I understand in my heart, the Far East dispatched more than 500,000 troops.  It is impossible to escape from the Far East. I am afraid that as soon as the order to retreat is given, Liu Tiehan's troops will rush towards him like crazy.  A big melee is inevitable, even.  The retreat of the Far East Expeditionary Force turned into a huge rout that was pursued. If Liu Tiehan's 600,000-strong army rushed into Manchuria and the Kwantung Army was attacked from the front and back by the independent division troops, the result would be disastrous.

    Even Prince Zai Ren planned to mobilize part of his troops to defend Manchuria, but he was unable to do so. Although the full-line offensive launched by the East Point troops was not strong, it forced him to invest all his troops to resist, which lasted hundreds of kilometers.  The western battlefield of the Breya Mountains is filled with gunpowder smoke and rumbling artillery all day long. If the troops are reduced at any point, they will face the risk of being broken through by the independent division troops.

    Prince Zai Ren did not dare to take this risk, even though he knew that the situation of the Kwantung Army in Manchuria was not good. The Liaodong Peninsula war suffered successive defeats. The main force was defeated by three independent divisions in three directions.  The field corps looked dead and could not move, but they could only act anxiously. In the reply to General Nanjiro, he did not shy away from explaining this.

    After reading Prince Zai Ren¡¯s reply, all that was left for General Nanjiro was to sigh. It seemed that the Kwantung Army could only fight alone in the Manchurian War. Originally.  The Far East Expeditionary Force is a very good strategic mobile corps, but now it has become a dead end in the Far East. Whose fault is this?

    After confirming that the Liaodong Peninsula had been lost, General Nanjiro comprehensively analyzed the war situation in Manchuria, stayed up for several nights, and sent a long telegram to the base camp and His Majesty the Emperor. In the telegram, he elaborated in detail  In view of the dangers and difficulties currently faced by the Kwantung Army in Manchuria, he suggested: "In view of the inevitable war in Manchuria and the dangerous situation faced by the Kwantung Army, in order to ensure that Manchuria will not fall, we kindly request the headquarters to give full consideration to adding more troops to Manchuria.  The strength is no less than 400,000!"

    He also wrote, "Manchuria is the rear base in the Far East. Currently, our empire's Far Eastern Front has more than 500,000 troops, and the Independent Division's Eastern Command has more than 600,000 troops. They are in a stalemate in the Far East. This is not a good phenomenon. Once the situation in Manchuria becomes critical,  , then the retreat of the troops sent to the Far East will be cut off, and it is really necessary to increase the number of troops in Manchuria! "General Nanjiro can be said to be a lion, and he will have 400,000 troops at once.

    General Nanjiro¡¯s telegram indeed shocked the Japanese army base camp and even Emperor Hirohito, and aroused great attention from the Japanese government and opposition parties, but the key to the problem is?, Japan's current war potential has almost been reached to its limit. The Australian battlefield in the Southwest Pacific has been fighting for a long time and is stalemate. The Southwest Pacific dispatched troops must ensure sufficient strength and maintain their advantage on the battlefield. Otherwise, once the Allies are  If the army regains its composure, it will be a disaster!

    This is the southern battlefield, and on the Korean Peninsula battlefield, the commander of the North Korean garrison, General Tanaka Shinichi, sends several emergency telegrams to the base camp a day. Facing the fierce attacks from the independent division troops, General Tanaka's troops are holding on.  In need of more military support, five new divisions have been formed in the mainland and will soon go to the battlefield on the Korean Peninsula. In the consciousness of the decision-makers at the base camp, the importance of the Korean Peninsula is no less than that of Manchuria.

    Soldiers are needed everywhere, but there are only so many local sources of troops. Now, the age for recruiting people for military service has been relaxed to men between sixteen and fifty years old. A large number of women have also been recruited to join the front-line combat troops.  Minato, almost all the people of the current Japanese Empire are fighting. Fighting on the northern and southern fronts, and facing Tang Qiuli's independent divisions and allied forces at the same time, have made Japan's national power increasingly tense, not only in terms of the source of troops to support the war.  The supplies needed are beyond our means.

    What worries Emperor Hirohito and the base camp even more is that the American naval fleet seems to have gradually recovered from the initial blow. In 1940 alone, two new fleets were formed.  The core fleets are aircraft carriers, one is the East Pacific Fleet, and the other is the West Pacific Fleet.

    In the vast Pacific Ocean, the task force commanded by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto can no longer run amok. In the recent naval battles, the Imperial Navy fleet has drawn a tie with the U.S. fleet. This was not the case before.  , is impossible. Since the U.S. Pacific Fleet was uprooted by the Imperial Navy task force twice in a row, American warships have not even dared to leave the port of San Francisco.

    Once the advantage of the Imperial Navy Task Force in the Pacific is reversed, the impact on the Australian battlefield will be very serious, which means that the isolated Australian battlefield will re-open the connection with the United States, and a large number of Allied forces will  Soldiers and equipment will continue to be added to the Australian battlefield, which will be a disaster for the Empire's Southwest Pacific Expeditionary Forces.

    The Empire of Japan needs soldiers and generals on several battlefields, and it also needs to build guns, cannons, ammunition, aircraft, and warships. Its national strength has been overwhelmed. That abominable China devil chose this time to attack Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula.  A faint fear of launching an attack on the empire shrouded the hearts of Emperor Hirohito and the senior officials in the base camp. Although no one showed it, it was already growing in their hearts.

    Despite this, everyone knew the consequences of losing Manchuria. After discussions with the headquarters, Emperor Hirohito decided to mobilize seven divisions from the troops defending the islands in the southwest Pacific, rush to Manchuria, and place them under the command of the Kwantung Army.  , this means that the Japanese defense forces in Kalimantan, Sumatra, Luzon, Java, Irian and other places close to the Indochina Peninsula have shrunk to an extremely low level. The largest number of troops in each place is  There is no more than one division, and they are all newly formed third-rate divisions.

    The so-called tearing down the eastern wall to repair the western wall is nothing more than this. After receiving a call back from the general staff of the base camp, General Nanjiro, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, had no plans for the seven divisions with more than 180,000 troops that were about to rush to aid Manchuria.  Showing too much excitement, water far away cannot quench the thirst nearby. He knows this. Even if the reinforcements mobilized from the Southwest Pacific are sent to Manchuria at the fastest speed, it will take at least more than a month to arrive.

    This is not the time for deployment after arriving in Manchuria. Can Tang Qiuli, the Chinese devil who is eyeing Manchuria and the Kwantung Army, give himself such a long time?  General Nanjiro's answer is no. It won't be too long before the independent division launches a large-scale attack on Manchuria. Maybe, in early July, the three independent division corps stationed on the Manchurian border will launch an attack. Maybe, it's  After the war on the Korean Peninsula ends, right?

    No matter what the situation was, it would not be too long before Tang Qiuli took action against Manchuria. Thinking of this, General Nanjiro was full of understanding and sympathy for General Tanaka, who was also a brother in trouble. Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula could have been each other's horns.  , but that devilish strategy of China, where the North and the South attacked at the same time, forced the Kwantung Army and the North Korean garrison to have to deal with the fierce attack, let alone support each other, and protect themselves, which now seems to be a problem.

    Faced with the almost unsolvable crisis in Manchuria, General Nanjiro's political nature once again came into play. After sending a telegram about the war situation in Manchuria to Emperor Hirohito and the base camp, less than a day later, General Nanjiro again  Send a telegram to base camp.

    The content of the telegram turned out to be a request for approval from the base camp to resign as Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army, as well as to request the Imperial Japanese Army to station itself in Manchuria.Position of ??Plenipotentiary Representative

    (To be continued)
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