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On September 23, the day after Li Guoyao¡¯s command launched a counterattack on the Phoenix Mountain front line, Wang Lijuan¡¯s command launched another force and captured Yanji, an important town on the border between China and North Korea, which greatly shocked the Kwantung Army.
Because once you pass Yanji, you will reach North Korea. At this time, the Japanese army in North Korea only has less than two divisions of defenders. Even if Li Guoyao's command only sends a few regiments into North Korea to fight, it will be enough to cause a headache for the Kwantung Army. .
More importantly, in the direction of Phoenix Mountain, the national army has also reversed its passive defense situation and launched a powerful counterattack.
Although the Japanese army has not been defeated yet, the initiative on the battlefield is not as obvious as before.
Moreover, the national army also assembled a large number of troops in the southern Manchuria area. More than 100,000 elites poured into southern Manchuria, which put great pressure on the Japanese army in southern Manchuria.
After being shocked, General Yamada Otozo did not dare to neglect, and sent two urging telegrams to the Third Army Headquarters within one day, strictly ordering them to speed up.
However, the Third Army had just passed Harbin when suddenly a situation came from the northern front. At noon that day, an elite force of 3,000 people suddenly attacked Bei'an. Then a large number of mysterious armed forces appeared in Kedongke Mountain and other places.
In less than half a day, the defenders in the Northern Manchuria region suffered a major blow. Three counties were captured and more than 2,000 defenders were annihilated.
More importantly, according to the fragmentary information returned from the front line, the number of this sudden enemy force is no less than 15,000, and they are all Soviet-made weapons. Except for the lack of tanks, other weapons are available. .
When the news reached Changchun, the entire Kwantung Army was in an uproar!
Everyone is guessing whether the Soviet army has sent troops!
At present, the Kwantung Army Headquarters immediately issued an order to the intelligence department to immediately find out the Soviet Union's movements and whether they planned to tear up the neutrality treaty.
"The situation reported back by the intelligence department is also very bad. The Soviets are gathering, and judging from the opponent's movements, there is no sign of an exercise posture at all, and they clearly have the intention of attacking.
When the news spread back to Changchun, the entire Kwantung Army headquarters fell silent.
"If the Soviet army suddenly moves south at this time, even if the opponent only has 500,000 people, the consequences for the Kwantung Army will still be devastating.
Because the strength of the Kwantung Army at this time was less than 850,000, including the tens of thousands of troops of the puppet Manchukuo, but the Kwantung Army was not even 800,000.
More importantly, two-thirds of the elite Kwantung Army has been mobilized. Among the 800,000 troops, there are definitely no more than 300,000 who can actually fight on the battlefield.
¡°And now the Kwantung Army still has to deal with the challenge from Li Guoyao¡¯s troops. If it is attacked by Chinese and Soviet troops, the consequences will be disastrous.
At that moment, Yamada Otsuzo immediately called Shimizu Noriki and others to inquire about countermeasures. Later, he had phone calls with several front army commanders and legion commanders. Finally, Yamada Otsuzo finally decided to order the Third Army to return to its original station immediately to quell the North's attack. Chaos in the area.
At the same time, immediately withdraw troops from Phoenix Mountain and other places, and switch from offensive to defensive!
Subsequently, under the order of Yamada Otsuzo, the Third Army returned north from Harbin, and more than 100,000 Japanese troops along the Phoenix Mountain also retreated urgently. The counterattack launched by the Japanese army ended with it, quite anticlimactic. mean.
¡°However, whether it is for the Japanese army or for Li Guoyao¡¯s troops, the withdrawal does not mean the end of the battle.
On the contrary, as the fighting along Phoenix Mountain ended, the main Japanese troops returned to the southern front and immediately launched a siege against Wang Lijuan's headquarters.
The national army was not to be outdone, and immediately started fighting with the Japanese army in the southeast, but the scale was much smaller than before.
A week later, as the Japanese army regained Yanji, the battle finally ended for the time being.
This battle started in early August, and it has been a full month and a half now. The Chinese army invested more than 300,000 troops in this battle, while the Japanese army passively dispatched more than 200,000 troops to fight with it. The five to six million troops from both sides fought fiercely from Shuangyashan and Jiamusi in the north, along the Great Wall in the south, and to Yanji in the east.
In the end, the battle ended with the annihilation of more than 50,000 Japanese troops, an additional 40,000 to 50,000 wounded, and the loss of Rehe.
Although the war is temporarily over, the impact of this war has just begun.
Due to the loss of the northern and southern parts of Rehe, as well as the loss of many counties in the hinterland of the Puppet Manchukuo, the situation in Manchuria has undergone major changes, and the defeat that the Kwantung Army Headquarters tried hard to cover up was exposed.
This situation naturally caused extreme dissatisfaction in the base camp. You must know that Northeast China at this time was not just the most important colony in Japan. In the eyes of the base camp, Manchuria was the last retreat for all Japanese troops in Southeast Asia.
The most important purpose of the so-called mainland transportation line is not only to transport supplies to the Japanese troops in Southeast Asia, but also to withdraw the Japanese troops in Southeast Asia to China when necessary, and finally transport them back to Japan through North Korea.
There is no other way. The islands in the southern Pacific have been occupied by the US military. The US military's leading troops have even arrived in Guam and are preparing to attack Okinawa. This is equivalent to hitting Japan's doorstep.
The Japanese Navy has suffered heavy losses and no longer has the strength to compete with the U.S. Navy. Therefore, it is impossible to withdraw troops directly from Southeast Asia, but it is still entirely possible to transfer those overseas troops back to Japan through North Korea.
But the premise is that the situation in the Northeast is stable. Once Manchuria is in chaos, the plan of the base camp will also come to nothing.
When the battle and battle damage in Manchuria were reported to the base camp, both the new land minister, chief of staff and prime minister could not sit still. Reprimanding telegrams were sent to the Kwantung Army headquarters one after another.
However, the reprimand telegram from the base camp caused strong dissatisfaction within the Kwantung Army. During this period of combat, everyone in the Kwantung Army believed that they had done their best, and many troops were basically wiped out.
However, the strength of the enemy army is beyond imagination, and they cannot be blamed for failing to achieve a decisive victory. At present, the base camp is constantly sending telegrams to reprimand them. This makes the officers and the vast majority of the staff of the Kwantung Army think that the base camp is not only not Respecting them and restricting their combat operations is interfering with the authority of the Kwantung Army commanders at all levels to use troops.
Therefore, after receiving the seventh telegram of rebuke, the Kwantung Army Headquarters immediately sent a telegram of protest and complaint to the base camp stating that "the military commander's battlefield command and use of troops is within the scope of his authority."
Such strong statements and similar protests are very common in the Japanese army, but most of them occur in high-level command organizations. Ordinary squadrons, brigades, and wings do not have such authority.
Only the headquarters above divisions and corps have such qualifications. Of course, there must be legitimate reasons. Otherwise, disobeying superiors is not a small crime.
??????????????????????? However, the following tactics can be considered a tradition in Japan, and the top brass of the Japanese army did not have a good way to deal with it.
There are usually three ways to deal with it. One is to simply not mess with it; the other is to send the deputy chief of staff or director of operations to the higher-level headquarters to dispatch; the third is to send a staff officer to the army to understand the situation and make a report before handling it.
In order to deal with this matter this time, the base camp decided to personally send capable personnel from the General Staff Headquarters to Manchuria to have a look and understand the situation on the ground.
"Sent to the Kwantung Army Headquarters was a team of officers led by Major General Yiji Sakai, Chief of the Operations Section of the General Staff Headquarters. There were more than thirty people, all of whom were elite members of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters.
Subsequently, this team of officers arrived at the Kwantung Army headquarters and conducted an investigation into the actual situation facing the Kwantung Army! (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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