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Chapter 1,610: Japanese Counterattack (4)

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    As soon as the news came out, the whole of China and Japan was like a pot exploding, with all kinds of true and false news and comments flying all over the sky.

    Needless to say, the Japanese army was even more shocked!

    It has been seven years since Li Guoyao's army rose to prominence at the end of the Songhu Battle. During these seven years, although Li Guoyao himself occasionally behaved unruly and did not have a very harmonious relationship with Chongqing, this unit was indeed  It is an eye-opener for the Chinese people.

    On the anti-Japanese battlefield where they were retreating steadily, this unit seemed so different. It repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army. Killing the opposing generals was like killing chickens and pigs. It was common for them to annihilate Japanese regiments, brigades and even division-level troops.  things.

    In the eyes of the Chinese people, the three words Li Guoyao mean invincibility, because Li Guoyao's troops have indeed never been defeated for more than seven years!

    But now Li Guoyao's troops were finally defeated, and the defeat was so miserable. After the first battle, an army of 200,000 was crippled, which is really unacceptable.

    The media controlled by the Wang Ni regime in Nanjing spared no effort to discredit Li Guoyao, and at the same time boasted about how powerful the Kwantung Army's combat effectiveness was. All kinds of voices became loud for a while.

    The Japanese base camp is still very satisfied with this encirclement and suppression operation by the Kwantung Army Headquarters. At least on the surface, the results are acceptable. In less than a month and a half, Rehe was recaptured and the crisis in southern Manchuria was relieved. This  This was something that the top management of the base camp had not expected before the war.

    Therefore, in view of the major achievements of General Yamada Otsuzo and Chief of Staff Qin Yanzaburo in this battle, the base camp specially awarded different levels of awards to several senior officers of the Kwantung Army.

    As the supreme commander of this battle and the top decision-maker of the Kwantung Army, General Yamada Otsuzo was awarded a second-class bravery medal. Although this second-class bravery medal does not have a high gold content, it is the best recognition of Yamada Otsuzo.  .

    Some time ago, due to the counterattack launched by Li Guoyao's troops, the Kwantung Army suffered heavy losses, which also caused many people to doubt Yamada Otozo's ability.  But this time, as the Kwantung Army regained Chengde and other places in one fell swoop, the voices of doubt were temporarily suppressed.

    "Compared to Yamada Otsuzo, the biggest beneficiary of this battle should be the new chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Qin Yanzaburo.

    Many people should be familiar with Qin Yansanlang. He had served in the base camp for a long time and visited the Chinese battlefield and Southeast Asian battlefield many times to inspect the situation. His position was not high, but his power was considerable.

    Qin Yanzaburo has been engaged in intelligence work against the Soviet Union for a long time. He is known as the "Soviet expert" in the military. He previously served as a member of the Russian squad of the General Staff Headquarters and later served as the head of the Manchuria secret service of the Kwantung Army.

    In 1926, this man served as the military attache of the Soviet Embassy, ??and the following year he served as an infantry major.  In 1930, he became attach¨¦ to the Polish Legation and military attach¨¦ to Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania.

    After the outbreak of the all-out war of aggression against China, this person successively served as the head of the Kwantung Army's Harbin secret service and the Kwantung Army's deputy chief of staff. In October 1942, he succeeded Ohga Shigeru as the commander of the 34th Division and was stationed in Nanchang.

    In April 1943, the deputy chief of staff and director of the base camp depot assisted Chief of Staff Gen Sugiyama in providing combat guidance when the war situation was unfavorable.

    After Hideki Tojo concurrently served as the commander-in-chief, he promoted his friend Jun Haremiya to deputy chief of staff, and drove Qin Yanzaburo to the Army University as the president.  After the fall of Tojo Hideki, Harem Jun was kicked out of the central government. He returned to the headquarters to assist Commander-in-Chief Umezu Yoshijiro, and recently became the Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army.

    Qin Yanzaburo's qualifications are quite high, but because he was not liked by Tojo Hideki before, he has not had the opportunity to be promoted to Army General for many years. He is a tepid existence in the army.

    However, this battle made him a lot of money. Although he was not promoted to Army General, he was awarded the title of Imperial Marquis. In addition, he himself was awarded Japan's extremely high-standard First-Class Gold Medal by the military ministry.  , neither titles nor medals can be obtained by ordinary people.

    You must know that in Japan, a title represents identity and status. This military position is not comparable at all. The two are not on the same level at all.

    A title is a prerequisite for establishing a foothold in Japan. A general who comes from a poor family will eventually be attributed to a poor family. Although the nobles in Japan do not look down on a general, they will not give in to him. His power and status are not the same.  Not as high as people think.

    But a general who comes from a family with a high title is the target of the entire Japanese society. His powerful position is absolutely envied by ordinary people. Lieutenant General Qin Yanzaburo, who was born in a poor family, is tantamount to reaching the sky in one step. Not only does he give his own militaryHis career has added a lot of color, and more importantly, he has promoted his family from a humble family to a high-ranking aristocracy.

    However, although it was very lively outside, with newspapers and magazines praising and bragging every day, they were almost praised as military gods like Yamagata Aritomo, but in the Kwantung Army headquarters, whether it was Yamada Otsuzo or Qin  None of Hikosaburo was happy, because only they knew who was the real winner in this battle.

    Although the Kwantung Army headquarters demolished the east wall to make up for the west wall in this battle, and took advantage of the opportunity to adjust the defense zone to concentrate the forces of more than a dozen divisions, and finally recaptured all the towns in southern Manchuria and Jehol that Li Guoyao's troops had previously occupied,  It looks endlessly beautiful.

    However, Yamada Otsuzo, Qin Yanzaburo and others knew that the losses suffered by Li Guoyao's troops in this battle were actually not large. They were not injured at all, let alone the entire army was wiped out. The data reported before  But they deliberately forged it to deal with the base camp and domestic and foreign media.

    At the same time, it is also to deter those people in Manchukuo and prevent them from jumping up and down!

    On the contrary, the Kwantung Army's own losses were beyond their imagination, so much so that three days after the war ended, the various units below still did not count the specific casualties.

    And the more this happens, the more General Yamada Yisan feels uncomfortable.

    You must know that if the casualties were not large, the data should have been compiled long ago. After all, the smaller the losses, the easier it is to compile the data.

    It has been delayed for so long. It is obvious that there are too many casualties and it is difficult to summarize at the moment. I really don¡¯t know how many troops the Imperial Japanese Army lost in this battle.

    Xinjing. Kwantung Army Headquarters.

    General Yamada Otozo sat at his desk with a depressed look on his face. Although he had an extra medal on his chest, he was not happy about it.

    And the Chief of Staff Qin Yanzaburo sitting opposite him also had a solemn expression. The atmosphere in the entire office seemed to be frozen, which was extremely uncomfortable.

    "Qin Yanjun, have the battle losses been calculated?" Yamada Otsuzo asked helplessly.

    Although Yamada Otsuzo is the commander of the Kwantung Army and also serves as the ambassador to Manchuria, he is an army officer after all, and the military habits in his bones cannot be changed.

    Especially after a battle, besides winning or losing, what he cares most about is the combat losses of his troops.

    Although he himself hated asking about battle losses, because every number on those documents represented the loss of a living life, this feeling was not very good, but he couldn't help but feel curious.

    "Your Majesty, the detailed battle losses are still being counted, and because the losses were so large, they cannot be fully counted in a short period of time. Therefore, I can only give you a rough figure, and the deviation and actual losses should be more.  There are some gaps." Qin Yansanlang said cautiously.

    "Tell me, how many warriors have we lost?"

    "Your Excellency, Commander, the military losses may be around 80,000 people"

    "Eighty thousand people, are you sure?" Yamada Otsuzo asked in shock.

    "Although it is indeed a bit hard to accept, it is true! In this battle, the imperial army dispatched nearly 150,000 troops, fighting from southern Manchuria to Rehe, and conquered more than 40 counties and districts, but we fought in every place  They encountered crazy resistance from this/that army. Therefore, every time they occupied a place, the imperial army had to pay at least two thousand casualties."

    Lieutenant General Qin Yanzaburo then continued: "Of the 80,000 casualties, the dead accounted for 70%. Most of the wounded were seriously wounded, and most of the lightly wounded were excluded from the statistics!"

    "It's too big, the casualties are really too great, it's beyond the endurance of the imperial army!" Yamada Otsuzo said painfully.

    ¡°It¡¯s indeed a bit big, but that¡¯s the truth!¡±

    "Yo Xi, how many casualties are there?" General Yamada Otosan asked again.

    "It should be much smaller than ours. After all, the opponent is engaged in defensive operations and will evacuate immediately if the battle situation is unfavorable, so the imperial army has no chance to annihilate them!"

    "Baga! Baga! Baga! Li Guoyao is so cunning!"

    Yamada Otsuzo¡¯s huge roar came from the office, and it spread far and wide!

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