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"Chen Jun, you don't want to prepare dinner anymore. We will go to the generals club after we talk for a while. Lieutenant General Shimomura will entertain you tonight and come to Peking to meet the dust for you. Such high-standard treatment is from the commander to Peking. This is the first time in this new history. It can be seen that the Commander attaches great importance to you." Qingqi Dazuo said with a smile.

"I also want to thank the commander for his hospitality. It's better inside the customs. The heating has already started outside the customs. I have to wear a coat when I go out." Chen Mingxiang said.

"You just came back from outside the pass, the situation there is very tense, right?" Yanze Qingxuan asked suddenly.

"Yes, I learned during dinner with Chief of Staff Yukio Kasahara that in the second half of this year, the Military Department drew a large number of troops from the Kwantung Army and deployed them to Nanyang and Okinawa, preparing to respond to US attacks."

"The headquarters is intensively using the left-behind troops and garrison troops to form new divisions and brigades. This year alone, six divisions and three brigades have been established. One of them is the tank brigade. There will be more."

"As Germany is about to lose, the Kwantung Army also feels great pressure, racing against time to increase its strength, hoping to have enough time to train new troops, otherwise the combat effectiveness will be greatly affected." Chen Mingxiang said.

"That's it. The base camp has given me a transfer order to be the commander of the 119th Division. I used to be a staff officer in the Kwantung Army Headquarters and as the head of the security department of the Gendarmerie Command. He also served as the captain of the coalition, and hasn't returned to outside the customs for seven years." Yanze Qingxuan said.

Chen Mingxiang also thought that the Japanese army is currently expanding its troops too fast, there are not so many suitable division leaders, and they have to be transferred from other departments.

Although Shiozawa Qingxuan is a soldier, he has spent seven years working on spies and administrative and foreign affairs. He has become unfamiliar with leading troops to fight. Even this type has been transferred to the field army as the chief military officer. This shows the current situation. It's really bad.

The Japanese division is the main combat unit. The division commander has the rank of lieutenant general until now, and the division commander is to be appointed and removed by the Japanese emperor himself. Although this is a form, it also shows its high status.

Chen Mingxiang guessed that Shiozawa Qingxuan was a lieutenant general in the Japanese army. This was a necessary condition. In addition, he had been in the Kwantung Army before and was familiar with the local situation before he was selected as the commander of the 119th Division.

"In the imperial army, the division commander has a very high status. When you get outside the customs, we will meet frequently. After all, I also have a lot of business in Manchukuo." Chen Mingxiang said.

That night, in the high-level club of the headquarters, Lieutenant General Shimomura gave a banquet to Chen Mingxiang. This was a private banquet. The only people who attended were him, Haruki Osa, and Lieutenant General Kato Tomaji.

"I heard that Lieutenant General Miyazaki, the Chief of Staff of the Sixth Front Army Command, was transferred to the Chief of Operations of the General Staff Headquarters on Monday. Major General Joichiro Sanada was transferred to the Army Ministry as the head of military affairs. He was just transferred to the General Command. Takeda Takeda was appointed as the Chief of Staff of the Sixth Front Army." Qingqi said.

"Yes, Lieutenant General Miyazaki has arrived in Tokyo on Monday. Before leaving, he deliberately stayed in Peking for a day. We discussed some views on the current situation. According to him, the commander-in-chief of the dispatch army, Ningji Okamura, also commissioned He was testing the idea of ​​base camp."

"At present, we have dispatched troops to complete the first operation of the base camp and opened up the north-south communication line. It has formed an absolute advantage over the Shancheng government's Kuomintang control area. General Gangcun hopes to further expand the results. If we can get the support of the base camp, a new round of battle It's about to start again." Lieutenant General Shimomura said.

Originally, Neiji Okamura, who served as the commander-in-chief of the dispatch army on November 22, Republic of China, discovered from the first battle, the battle of Henan, Xianggui, that the combat effectiveness of the Shancheng government army was very low. Often assembled heavy troops but unable to withstand the Japanese attack.

In particular, there are many factions of the Shancheng government army, and they do not trust each other. There is a serious distinction between direct line and local forces. It can be said that there are many contradictions. In combat, there are often phenomena of retreating actively in order to preserve strength.

In this large-scale operation, the Japanese troops were able to successfully complete the scheduled tasks that were considered extremely difficult at the beginning under bad weather, inconvenient transportation, lack of air cover, difficulties in logistical support, etc., and defeated half of the regular troops of the Shancheng government army. The above-mentioned forces also fully proved this fact.

Okamura Neiji believes that the current dispatched army should continue to launch new offensives to capture Sichuan Province, the core hinterland of the Yamashiro government. The opponent will lose the final combat foundation and will no longer be able to confront the Japanese.

In addition to revealing this idea to Miyazaki on Monday, he is also preparing to report this specifically to the base camp. He clearly pointed out that now is the best opportunity to attack Kwai and Sichuan provinces, and in the second half of next year, the situation of the Shancheng government forces will be Big changes have taken place.

The U.S. government has been assisting the Yamashiro government’s weapons, equipment and combat supplies. This will deprive the Japanese army of its current advantage. If the Yamashiro government’s army adds more and more artisans and the Air Force gets American advanced fighters and bombers, then It is extremely disadvantageous for dispatching troops.

According to the calculation of the army aviation of the dispatching army, with the addition of the US Air Force, the casualty ratio of the Shancheng government air force and the dispatching army aviation is currently three to one. The Imperial Army aviation is already at a disadvantage, but if it is not contained, the casualties will increase. To ten to one.

In order to prevent China’s land from being attacked by the Shancheng government forces and the U.S. forces, we should make good use of the fact that the current dispatched troops have already occupied part of the provinces of Guangxi and Hunan, forming a combat situation against Guangxi and Sichuan provinces, ready to attack. Great opportunity to continue the offensive, defeat the main force of the Shancheng government's army, and occupy Sichuan Province, where the opponent depends for survival.

Okamura Neiji speculated that when the Yamashiro government forces encountered a critical condition in Sichuan Province, the artillery and some American troops in northern Myanmar might have to land from the southeast coast to support the Yamashiro government.

The dispatching army just mobilized the main force and launched a large-scale field battle with the opponent on the land battlefield, which contained and consumed the strength of the US army and reduced the pressure on the homeland.

After all, the strategy of this old devil is to alleviate the local crisis, transfer the Japanese and American battlefields to China, and use the power of the Japanese army to fight a war of attrition with the American army.

After all, in the occupied areas of China, in addition to dispatching troops, the Southern Army and the Kwantung Army can also provide support. The powerful forces of the three general armies can always compete with the U.S. Army, and the north-south communication line brought about by Operation No. 1 is connected. Didn't it also bring convenience to combat?