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Chapter 461: Internal Conflicts in the Japanese Army

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    The reason why Juichi Terauchi was reprimanded by the base camp in a short period of time was that in addition to the annihilation of the 14th Division, there was another reason, that is, the 20th Division also suffered a fatal blow from the Chinese army some time ago and was almost annihilated.

    The base camp also knows that Juichi Terauchi cannot be blamed for the destruction of the Doihara Division, because it was the base camp that launched the Xuzhou Battle, and it was also the base camp that adjusted the strength of the Doihara Division in the Yellow River. In the end, the troops were completely wiped out by the Chinese army. This responsibility should also be attributed to  The base camp is responsible.

    But the 20th Division is different. This division has always fought on the Shanxi battlefield and has been used as the main force by the North China Front. If something almost happened to this division, the responsibility must be borne by Juichi Terauchi.

    General Shoudai in the temple knew this very well, but he was helpless.

    After the Xuzhou battle began, although the North China Front intended to reduce its strength, the national army was not stupid and took this opportunity to counterattack crazily.

    On the battlefield in southern Shanxi, China¡¯s 2nd Theater launched an attack on the Japanese and puppet troops in southwestern Shanxi based on unified deployment.  First, they destroyed Tongpu Road in sections, and then concentrated their forces to attack the enemy's 20th Division scattered in the southern section of Tongpu Road.

    After more than a month of fighting, the main force of the 20th Division was compressed to the railway line.

    Being attacked continuously without the ability to counterattack and without reinforcements, the troops of the 20th Division were in a panic state of being surrounded or bombarded all day long. In the end, they had to abandon Puzhou, Ruicheng, Pinglu and other places and maintain Yuncheng.  , Hejin, Wenxi, and shrink the main force to Quwo, Houma, and Xinjiang to hold on.

    During the period when the 20th Division was under siege, because the railways had been blown up by troops from the 2nd Theater Command, transportation could not be carried out. Airports such as Linfen were constantly bombarded by troops from the 2nd Theater Command, and air transportation lines were also interrupted. Therefore, they  Food, ammunition, medicine, etc. are becoming increasingly scarce.

    Because the North China Front needed to concentrate its forces to attack Xuzhou and had no troops to reinforce, it organized air transport troops at the most tense moment of the Xuzhou battle to airdrop supplies to the 20th Division, but it failed to solve the problem of supplying one division.

    Especially during the period from the end of May to the beginning of June, there were continuous heavy rains in Shanxi and Henan. The troops of the enemy's 20th Division, which were surrounded in various places, were cut off from air and ground supplies and ended up robbing immature wheat from nearby people's houses to save their lives.

    After eating the cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, chickens, and ducks of the people, the Japanese soldiers in many strongholds also preyed on cats and dogs, and some ate wild raisins, leaves, and grass to satisfy their hunger.

    It was not until June 2 after the Xuzhou battle that the North China Front transferred the independent 4th Brigade stationed in Xinxiang to Linfen, and then transferred 4 infantry brigades of the 16th Division and the 108th Division stationed in Jiaozuo and Qinyang.  The first one passed through Yuanqu in southern Shanxi Province to Houma and Quwo, and then the siege of the 20th Division was solved.

    What made Juichi Terauchi even more distressed was that he was reprimanded by the base camp and criticized his command by the First Army stationed in Shanxi. Especially the commander of the First Army, Kozuki Kiyoshi, directly questioned Juichi Terauchi.  s level.

    In fact, the conflicts between the First Army and Juichi Terauchi have been going on for a long time, mainly focusing on many aspects such as the use of troops and supplies. Moreover, as time goes by, these conflicts have not been effectively resolved, but have become more and more acute.  .

    For example, at the beginning of the year, the North China Front Army Headquarters asked the First Army to deploy two brigades to attack the Eighth Route Army's Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Anti-Japanese Base Area in Fuping County, Hebei Province. However, the First Army used reasons such as maintaining stability in the rear and protecting transportation.  , rejected the order of the North China Front Army.

    However, this matter was regarded as disobedience by the North China Front Army Headquarters. Chief of Staff Naosaburo Okabe personally sent a report, ordering the First Army to resolutely implement the orders of the Front Army. However, due to the lack of troops in the rear, the First Army was attacked by the Eighth Route Army 129  The division's attack resulted in the loss of many strongholds, and even an airport was bombed.

    ??Subsequently, at the North China Front Army Chiefs of Staff meeting held in Peiping, Okabe blamed the 1st Army for this and asked Major General Shojiro Iida, the 1st Army Chief of Staff who was present at the meeting, to admit his mistake.

    However, Iida countered on the grounds that the Shannan operation was carried out according to the orders of the front army, and the temporary withdrawal of troops would affect the completion of the original mission. Moreover, regarding the use of troops during the operation, the front-line command organs were also allowed to put forward opinions in this regard.

    After the meeting of the North China Front Army, the problems of the 1st Army were pointed out with typical examples in the documents reported to the Army Ministry, the General Staff Headquarters and distributed to each unit.

    The commander of the First Army, Kozuki Kiyoshi, was very angry after hearing the report of Shojiro Iida about being reprimanded and seeing the documents of the North China Front, so he wrote a long letter explaining the problem to Juichi Terauchi. As a result, the letter  returned.

    In addition, Xiangyue and the North China Front also had serious differences on many more important issues.There are important differences, such as instigating the surrender of generals who are not determined to resist Japan and the use of Xuzhou's combat forces, etc.

    Xiangyue was very dissatisfied with the North China Front's deployment of the 16th Division and the 14th Division to fight in Xuzhou, because this incident left the defense forces south of Shijiazhuang and southern Shanxi empty. As a result, they were not only forced to abandon Changzhi and other areas, but also  As a result, the 20th Division was attacked by the Chinese army day and night and was in trouble.

    In this regard, Xiangyue believed that Juichi Terauchi lacked comprehensive consideration in the use of troops to consolidate the North China occupied area, and that he failed to consider one aspect and neglect the other in the deployment of the Xuzhou operation.

    In addition, Xiangyue and others were very dissatisfied with the leaders of the North China Front Army and the agency staff who spoke loudly and frequently reprimanded the troops.

    According to Xiangyue Qingji, the North China Front Army commanded him just like a non-commissioned officer.

    In other respects, Xiangyue mobilized ammunition for the maneuverability of her front-line troops. When the commanders of the front-line troops inspected the battlefield, they were all old-style "¥â-type" and "SU-type" aircraft with poor performance.  The staff of the North China Front sometimes flew new aircraft with better performance.

    Some troops have not yet been issued cotton-padded clothes in winter, while the commander, chief of staff, section chief, staff officer, and even service personnel of the "North China Front" have already put on new and some high-end cold-proof clothes.

    All these factors caused serious antagonism between the First Army and the North China Front Army Headquarters.

    General Juichi Terauchi also realized the seriousness of the situation. If the confrontation between the two sides continues, it may lead to more serious consequences. Therefore, Juichi Terauchi decided to completely clean up the internal instability factors and then cooperate with the Chinese army.  Fight.

    There are two ways to solve the current problem. One is to be soft to the First Army, and the other is to completely remove the thorns among the generals, such as Kozuki Kiyoshi, Iida Shojiro and others.

    It is impossible to be soft, and it will never be possible.

    Juichi Terauchi was the eldest son of Marshal Masaki Terauchi, the Prime Minister of the 18th Japanese government after the Meiji Restoration. He graduated from the 11th batch of the Army Military Academy. After the "February 26 Incident" in 1936, he served as the Army Minister as a Field Marshal. He was an arrogant and measured man.  He is a small-minded man who pays attention to pomp and wanton enjoyment. Any officer who disagrees with him will be crazily suppressed by him.

    For such a person, anyone who dares to stand up as a thorn is provoking his authority. Therefore, after the Battle of Xuzhou, Terauchi Juichi began to deal with internal conflicts.

    In the following days, under the operation of Juichi Terauchi, Kozuki Kiyoshi was first removed from the position of commander of the 1st Army and transferred to the General Staff Headquarters. The commander of the 1st Army was replaced by Lieutenant General Yoshijiro Umezu, the Army Deputy Secretary.

    Then Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando succeeded Seishiro Itagaki as the commander of the 5th Division. Seishiro Itagaki was appointed Minister of Army of the Japanese Government on June 3, and Major General Ryouki Machijiri succeeded Suzuki Suzuki as the Chief of Staff of the Second Army.

    Immediately afterwards, Isotani Rensuke was dismissed from the position of commander of the 10th Division and was replaced by Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka. Lieutenant General Motojiro Taniguchi succeeded Shimomoto Kumaya as the commander of the 108th Division.

    The distinguished commander of the 20th Division, Bunzaburo Kawagishi, was also transferred from the Shanxi battlefield, and Lieutenant General Ushijima Minoru took over as the commander of the 20th Division.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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