Chapter 292: The Decisive Winning River Bridge (Part 1)

"Report, the Empire Warriors won a great victory in Elm."

The staff officer rushed into the Sakura Hall with a telegram. In the largest courtyard of the hall, the one sitting in the center was the Harbin Security Command, the commander, and Lieutenant General of Ogisu.

"Baga, did you get kicked in the head by a donkey?" Ogisu Ribing's words were written by later generations in China. It is the most appropriate time to use them at this time.

The entire Yushu defenders were destroyed. At this time, they said they had a great victory. Isn’t this the face of attacking Ogisu’s army?

Ogisu Ribing's gloomy eyes glared, which made the staff member immediately alert. He raised the telegram in his hand restrainedly and whispered: "Commander, Yushu found a large number of corpses of Zeng Yiyang's main force who died in battle, and our army won!"

"oh……"

Hearing that many of Zeng Yiyang's main force died in Yushu, Ogizhou Libing did not say anything on his face, but he was wondering in his heart: "Isn't Zeng Yiyang's main force besieging Yushu?"

What I can’t understand is that Zeng Yiyang has been a nightmare since his appearance. The garrison troops of Yushu only have more than 3,000 people. Can the opponent suffer such great casualties with more than 3,000 people?

Three thousand against twenty thousand people!

It does not have an advantage in equipment, and its only help is to attack twice a day. However, none of these can all alleviate the dilemma of the garrison troops of the Kwantung Army of Yushu. After all, the two armies have intertwined positions, and Japanese bombers dare not rashly drop bombs and poisonous gas bombs. For the Japanese army guarding Yushu, the reinforcements of the aviation force are very small. Who knows, bombs of hundreds of pounds are still there?

Anyway, the Japanese army guarding Yushu did not see it. So much so, after the war started, the Japanese army guarding Yushu complained about the aviation force every day, and even reported to attack the Harbin Supreme Command and sent it directly to the hands of Ogisu Riot.

Sometimes, it was air strikes without cooperation with infantry; sometimes, poisonous gas bombs were still in the intersecting areas of the two armies, and once the wind changed, they all floated to the positions guarding the Japanese army, and there was a suspicion of collusion with the enemy.

Even so, the garrison troops in Yushu completed a four-day blockade. The final failure could no longer be held responsible for those garrison troops. For the Kwantung Army, the main force of the 20,000 Anti-Japanese Volunteers was able to besiege a garrison troops organized by the regiment, which was simply a fantasy. You must know that not long ago, this army officially encircled the main force of the 11th Division.

Could it be Zeng Yiyang's trick again?

Ribing Ogisu stared at the geisha in the courtyard for a while, and for a while, he waved his hand and asked them to retreat first. He had already thought of it. A year ago, he was the deputy general of General Ueda Kenyoshi, and as the deputy commander of the Kanto Army, he was in the limelight.

When General Ueda Kenyoshi was the commander of the Kanto Army, he was already disabled and was not young, so he meant to lead the way for Ogisu to set up a military force.

From the deputy commander of the Kwantung Army to the commander of the Sixth Army, he commanded a hundred thousand troops to fight the Soviet Red Army on the Haraha River on the border of the *** border.

In the end, defeat to the end became a shame to the military.

After the battle between the Manchuria and Mongolia, Ogisu's army was completely cut off from the hope of rising.

This result made him very depressed. The reason why he could still stay in the Kanto Army and serve as the commander of the army level was just a check and balance for Mejiro Umezu. It was like a scarecrow in the field, which was not only scared of those timid sparrows, but could not stop the thieves' arrogance.

Not only that, because of the lack of personal prestige, Ogisu's army was unable to mobilize the arrogant soldiers and generals in the Kanto Army.

Take the 23rd Division at that time as an example. Lieutenant General Komatsuhara Daotaro has been disobeying his command since the Soviet Union came to the Northeast. Although, in name, Komatsuhara Daotaro's 23rd Division was under the jurisdiction of the 6th Army of the Kanto Army, after the 23rd Division started fighting on the front line, Ogisu Riot did not understand what happened?

The position is awkward and the prestige is insufficient, so Ogisu stands up in Harbin and is careful everywhere.

Yushu's combat plan was a combat order issued by the Kwantung Army Command. In essence, it had nothing to do with him.

Carefully stroking the beard on his left cheek, Ogisu Lebing said in a deep thought: "Please ask Major General Gao Pinbiao to carefully count the battle situation in Yushu. After an hour, I need specific numbers. In addition, in the main force of the Acheng defense line, tentatively attack Zhou Bao's central unit and test the opponent's defensive position."

"Yes!" The staff officer hurriedly left the guild hall.

Five minutes later, Ogisu's car rushed from the main entrance of the guild and headed towards the headquarters.

Obviously, Ogisu Riot wanted to show goodwill to Kwantung Army Commander Mijiro Umezu through the battle situation in Yushu, and put forward some suggestions to improve his position in the Kwantung Army. The benefits of doing so are self-evident. He can quickly improve his position in Mijiro Umezuzu. After all, in the Kwantung Army, there are not many generals who can conquer and fight well, and they are even weak at the level of the army.

As long as he can stand at the position of commander of the group army, there is still a chance of rising for the Ogisu Riot, who is younger than Mejiro Umezu. At least the position of the Governor of North Korea is still very attractive. Minamijiro is nearly 70 years old, and no matter how attached he is to power, he cannot hide his disadvantage in age.

The least effective is that you can also apply to transfer the Kwantung Army.

In this Kanto Army that is suppressed everywhere, Ogisu has been alone and fed up with it. He fantasized about being able to command several divisions and gallop on the battlefield that day, the premise is to not encounter unsolvable troops like the Soviet tank cluster.

The Chinese Expeditionary Army, or the Southern Army that is being formed, are both good choices.

An hour later, the telegram from the elm tree made Ogisu Ribing look stunned. He remembered that not long ago, his staff officer rushed into the Sakura Hall in a panic and said something about the victory without thinking!

It turns out that it is really a big victory with a nose and eyes.

Wang Lifa's main force, which paid more than 3,500 casualties in Yushu, is not fake, but the number of deaths dug out is about 2,000. This number is definitely a great news for the Kwantung Army.

It can even change its strategy first-hand information in the future.

Ogisu Ribuki closed his eyes and organized the language before picking up the phone at hand. After reaching the operator, he said: "Check me the Kanto Army Command."

A minute later, the phone rang in Mijiro Umezu's office.

"I'm Mijiro Umezu."

There were some noises on the phone, and some often echoes on long-distance calls, but Ogisu Ribe confirmed that it was Umezu Mijiro, not the adjutant of the headquarters. Then he said respectfully: "My Excellency Commander, I want to report to you directly on the battle situation in Yushu."

"Yelm? Haven't it been finished? The General Staff has detailed records. Do you think it's useful to analyze it again?"

Umezu Mijiro's impatient voice made Ogisu Ribuki nervous.

Don’t show your gratitude, and you’re still hated by the other party.

"Your Excellency Commander, this is the case. Major General Gao Pinbiao, the 27th Brigade who had arrived in Yushu, found a large number of enemy corpses who died in Yushu around the battlefield. The cleaning has started from the place where the corpses were buried. The specific data is still under statistics, with a total number of 2,000 people under the army." Ogisu Ribuki tried his best to explain what he knew. He knew that Umezu Mijiro's patience was not very good, especially in the case of internal and external troubles, he should be cautious.

“2,000 people?”

On the other end of the phone, Mejiro Umezu fell silent. He knew the losses of the Kanto Army in Yushu. The total number of casualties killed by the garrison troops and the armed expatriates temporarily convened was about 3,800. The expatriates had no command and were not large, so they could be ignored.

Then, the casualties of the opponent can illustrate a big problem.

More than 20,000 troops besieged a gang. Zeng Yiyang's main force also suffered 4,000 casualties and more than 2,000 people were killed in battle. Could it be that Zeng Yiyang's main force had lost all its elite troops after the summer encirclement and suppression, or did there be another inside story that he didn't know?

With a calm face, Mijiro Umezu suppressed himself first and did not allow himself to guess: "Tell me what you think?"

"Yes! Commander. I saw from the battle of elm, although Zeng Yiyang used his troops like a god, he was limited to mobile warfare in mountainous and mid-mountain areas. Once he entered the positional warfare, his troops could not play out the flexible and changeable tactics of mountain forest combat. On the contrary, the imperial soldiers had outstanding military qualities and were fearless on the battlefield. Therefore, the best way to eliminate Zeng Yiyang is to introduce them to the plains to fight. This is our excellent opportunity." Ogisu Libing said everything he thought in his heart in one breath.

However, he also threw a huge problem to Mijiro Umezu.

If Zeng Yiyang had no choice, he would never let his troops fight on the plains. This would mean that he would hand over life and death to the Kwantung Army, lose his maneuver advantage, and fight on the endless plains, which would be like cutting off the retreat.

In Mijiro Umezu's memory, this opportunity occurred once.

It was still last year that Zeng Yiyang had just led his troops into the Northeast, but at that time the Kwantung Army was under great pressure on the border and could hardly mobilize troops to encircle and suppress Zeng Yiyang's main force entering Sanjiang. However, this time, Chen Guang's Western Route Army was the main force that Zeng Yiyang had to give up.

Plain, is the Songnen Plain?

After Meijiro Umezu dropped the phone, he kept thinking about this issue and his eyes moved to the huge map of Manchuria. Ogisu's report was just a yuko. The key was to make a statement from Meijiro Umezu, but he was afraid of disobeying the commander's majesty, so he used such a trick. The meaning was very clear, that is, to strengthen the deployment of troops in Longjiang and other places, the decisive battle would inevitably appear in Longjiang, not in Jilin.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the staff officers of the Kwantung Army rushed to the headquarters one by one from their residence.

Lieutenant General Iimura and Major General Qin Yansanro, hurriedly got out of the car and stepped into the brightly lit headquarters hall. The attendants who had been waiting here brought these big figures into the living room upstairs. The capable guards brought cups of fragrant tea to the generals.

After waiting for a few minutes, Umezu Mijiro pushed the door open and entered.

"Great General, has there been any change in the front line?" Lieutenant General Iimura asked naturally knowingly. As the chief of staff of the Kanto Army, did he not know what happened in Yushu? It just raised a topic and relaxed the serious expressions of his colleagues.

"Did you see all the battle statistics sent by Lieutenant General Ogisu from Harbin?" Meijiro Umezu said to himself, then stood up and had no intention of sitting down. However, he was the initiator of the meeting, and the person with the highest rank among the people present, so naturally no one would complain about such impolite behavior.

"I just received it, and the situation surprised me." Takera Isomura took out a folder from the briefcase at hand. The top one was the message I received more than ten minutes ago: "From the content on the message, I found a very interesting fact. In mountain combat, Zeng Yiyang's main force can often use the mountains and forests to make the imperial army lose its advantage in firepower, and even lose its flexibility because it is dragged down by heavy weapons. But in the plains, this result will be reversed."

"So I combined the Zeng Yiyang tactics I studied in the early stage and found that if I want to defeat Zeng Yiyang, the Kwantung Army must change its combat concepts and draw one or two divisions from the troops to study mountain tactics as the main force to encircle and suppress Zeng Yiyang. The other troops slowly advance on the plains, squeeze the living space of the Anti-Japanese Volunteers, and finally destroy them like the Anti-Japanese United Army!"

After saying that, a smugura's mouth appeared with a smugusa smile.

Unlike his colleagues who work in the General Staff, Takera Isomura has almost no hobbies in life. His family is all about ***. In normal times, he is not interested in anything except studying tactics, and in the eyes of his colleagues, he is even a boring person.

However, this did not affect his impression among the senior Kanto Army leaders at all.

"Very good! Isomura Jun is worthy of being the elite of the empire." Meijiro Umezu couldn't help but lit up. For a long time, he had no choice but to Zeng Yiyang. The key is that the Kwantung Army is also a Japanese army, and even worse than the Chinese dispatched troops, many divisions in the Kwantung Army have never been on the battlefield.

When executing large-scale battles, many troops will have diarrhea problems halfway.

However, it is not difficult to draw two divisions from more than 200,000 Kwantung Army to focus on mountain combat. As long as the main division advances layer by layer, the problems of training and actual combat can be solved. Not only can it eliminate Zeng Yiyang's main force, but it can also train various Kwantung Army troops. It is a good way to kill two birds with one stone.

"At this stage, the most important thing is to unify within the staff, which requires a prestigious general to convince the young staff who have not long been out of the school." Seeing that his opinion was adopted, Takera Isomura suddenly became excited.

Lieutenant General Iimura nodded and smiled, "I will solve the problem of the staff members. I believe that those young staff members will still give me the old man some face."

For months, the Kwantung Army Command has never held such a smooth meeting.

Umezu Mijiro announced the meeting in a happy mood, and even enjoyed the steamed smoke of Fengro before going to bed.

Shortly after the senior Kanto Army obtained a consensus, on the Songhua River, two wooden boats walked slowly along the river water and against the shore.
Chapter completed!