Chapter 302: Fear of the Head

"Imura-kun, I need the headquarters to give Mantien an explanation."

Omura Takaichi's aggressive tone made Lieutenant General Iimura very unhappy, and the forehead was tightly clasped together with the back grooves, fluctuating regularly.

"Heihe defense was originally intended to resist possible attacks by the Soviet Union. The 12th Division arranged along the Heihe River needed to defend against river defense of more than 400 kilometers. It was already very difficult to maintain the river defense line. If the defense line was cut off, it would become an isolated army without supplies."

Lieutenant General Iimura’s explanation did not satisfy Omura, but it can be said that it did not satisfy the senior management of Manchu Railway.

For Manchuria, the Heihe Gold Mine is an important source of foreign exchange for the Empire and the most important gold mining area in Manchuria. *** is a country with scarce resources. After September 18th, Manchuria was able to provide only secondary materials such as coal. However, for oil, steel and other materials, it still needs to be imported from the United States in large quantities.

The international settlement method is a very disadvantage for ***.

In addition to using the US dollar, the only thing left is to pay in gold. When settled in the US dollar, the *** refused to accept it. Because in this way, the United States can use the US dollar to control the foreign trade of the US dollar, and even affect the domestic financial order, and thus be controlled by it.

To use gold, you need to use the most important strategic reserves. Since the War of Resistance Against Japan, the gold reserves of *** have been declining, resulting in the yen exchange rate falling by nearly double. The situation is developing towards a more severe situation, so the empire's senior officials attach great importance to gold mining.

Losing gold mining in surrounding areas such as Heihe will reduce the output by about half for Manchuria. That is, reducing gold income by more than 5 tons per year.

Omura Takaichi, who has always adhered to his duties and did not participate in the military, couldn't help but question the Chief of Staff of the Kanto Army. Although there was no strong wording in his words, the threatening meaning was very strong: "I don't care about the military deployment of the headquarters. The only thing I care about is that the income of Manchuria will cause huge losses due to the headquarters' mistakes, and this loss is something I can't bear. Now, please tell me what I can do to support your work."

"Mobilize strategic materials from the Manchurian Railway in South Manchuria, transport them to the front line from Qiqihar to Suihua, and recruit civilian railway transport troops to arrive at the front line..."

"Wait a minute, Imura Jun, can I think that after completing your request, you can guarantee all the interests of Manchuria in North Manchuria?" Omura Chuo did not have Imura Jun as a lieutenant general, but was thinking about giving it to the other side.

Lieutenant General Iimura was questioned for a moment of speechlessness. When fighting, it is simply nonsense to protect mines that lack defense facilities.

How to make sure he can't make sure he can't make sure!

Like Lieutenant General Iimura, Kimura Shuoichi, as the president of the Manchurian Railway, is also a real-powerful figure. In the Kanto Army's handling of local government affairs, Omura Shuoichi is one of the best in Manchuria. However, he is not well-known in the Kanto Army because he controls the entire economic lifeline of Manchuria, Kimura seems a little arrogant when dealing with people.

It is precisely this arrogance that makes others look unkind.

Omura Takuichi gently tapped the pipe in his mouth on the ashtray, and the venue was quiet. Even Mijiro Umezu looked at Kimura Takuichi quietly. It was not because Kimura hated him, and often people couldn't get out of Taiwan, but because the person standing behind him, the foreign minister of the Empire, and Yoeu Matsuoka.

"It seems you don't know the importance of North Manchuria. Manchuria Gold Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the Manchuria Railway, deports about 10 tons of gold to the Imperial Tripitaka Province every year, more than half of which are collected in North Manchuria. Maybe you don't understand what this means?"

Omura's annoying expression made Imura's angry lips tremble slightly. Fortunately, he controlled his emotions and did not let him lose control at such an important meeting.

But I felt very happy.

10 tons of gold? It is a lot of money, enough to launch a medium-sized battle. Lieutenant General Iimura thought silently.

At the same time, Kimura's voice remembered again: "This amount of money is enough to build a newest battleship with a displacement of 30,000 tons. The cost of forming more than two A-level divisions. But soon, these 10 tons of gold will become 4 tons or even less. General Iimura thinks it is more important to make a garrison division give up a gold mine that is more important than them, or to participate in that battle without any suspense?"

"This is only temporary. Before winter, the 12th Division will be able to return to the Heihe station." Lieutenant General Iimura reiterated again, pretending to be embarrassed at all on the surface.

Heihe has very rich gold resources, and there are more than ten large-scale gold mines alone.

What Kimura is even more worried is that a large part of it belongs to the Imperial Tripitaka Province, and several secret vaults are not even aware of the Kanto Army Command. The amount of this batch of gold was reserved by the Imperial Navy to build Yamato-class battleships, and no one can use it.

Not only that, once Heihe loses control, then how can Dacun not be in a hurry if this batch of gold is lost?

"I will be reborn again to the cabinet. This time I use the Heihe Guards is a huge mistake and ask for correction!"

Kimura Shuoichi left such a sentence and did not say hello to anyone. He didn't even leave politely, but stood up, pushed open the door and walked out.

"This bastard." Lieutenant General Iimura's face twisted, since he was promoted to general.

He had never been humiliated like this before. This low curse made Umezu Mijiro hear it. It was similar to Lieutenant General Iimura's mood, and Umezu Mijiro's mood was also messed up by Omura Takaichi. Originally, this meeting was a logistics coordination meeting between the headquarters and the Manchurian Railway, and the meeting itself was not very important.

I don’t know where Omura Takaichi learned the Kwantung Army’s combat plan.

At the beginning of the meeting, he pointed the finger directly at Lieutenant General Iimura, who was not having a good time, and he was almost saying to his face that he was incompetent.

Isn’t it just accusing Mijiro Umezu incompetent?

The always strong military ate a slight slaughter in the body of Man Tie, who was also in a deep background. This made Lieutenant General Iimura prepare several overnight combat plans, and there was a danger of being completely rejected.

The 12th Division of the Kwantung Army defended Heihe, which seemed very stable on the surface.

The 12th Division is a permanent division. Since its establishment in 1898, it has participated in the Russo-Japanese War. However, since then, except for the 32-year Songhu battlefield, it has sent three brigades to cooperate with the 9th Division to fight, it has not experienced a war in the past 35 years.

After the third rebel was reorganized, the 12th Division still retained the field heavy artillery brigade, anti-aircraft artillery brigade, tank 1st Regiment, heavy artillery brigade, field artillery brigade, cavalry brigade, etc., but one infantry brigade was missing. The heavy force was still very considerable, and the only thing that lacked was that it did not know its combat effectiveness. In addition to the heavy artillery brigade deployed on the local level, the 12th Division of Heihe has three regiments of field heavy artillery and mountain artillery, which is one of the top iron army in the Kwantung Army.

In addition to the heavy artillery brigade and the anti-aircraft artillery corps, Lieutenant General Iimura was preparing to draw 6 infantry brigades, a mountain artillery brigade, a field artillery brigade, and a cavalry brigade to form an attack detachment. He entered Long Town from Aihui, then approached Keshan and other places, and went south to prepare for Zeng Yiyang's retreat, forcing his main force to move towards Hulan and Lanxi, and completed the encirclement under the blockage of the Northward Corps.

Strategically, Lieutenant General Iimura's idea is possible.

On this basis, Umezu Mijiro also believed that Lieutenant General Iimura and Masao Terada, the General Staff, had very careful plans, but he was a little worried about using the 12th Division.

The northern line is not guarded?

Once such a combat plan is taken out, it will be used by the politicians who are afraid of the Soviet Union. These people will not give up their intervention in the Kanto Army because of its ** command system. After the Kanto Army was controlled by the royal family, the status of the Kanto Army commander reached the sky and there were already signs of being comparable to that of the mainland.

Among the army that the military headquarters can control, there is no full of the main forces of the Kwantung Army stationed in Manchuria, with nearly 300,000 troops of 11 divisions.

This made Hideki Tojo, who had a strong control, very uncomfortable, but due to Mijiro Umezu's power, Hideki Tojo is also temporarily prepared to avoid it. However, when Mijiro Umezu's reputation was severely damaged, Tojo would not adhere to the samurai spirit. As long as the opportunity is right, Tojo will definitely stab him in the back.

A high-level meeting became a critical meeting that would not be denied, which made Lieutenant General Iimura feel a little depressed.

In light of the crisis in North China, the Sino-Japanese War that Lieutenant General Iimura had never questioned began to shake.

A country that originally thought it would be able to surrender in a short time actually showed signs of dragging the *** into the abyss of war. The 400,000 most elite troops consumed more than 200,000 on the Chinese battlefield, although the strength of Chiang Kai-shek's National Government had been greatly weakened.

But as the war deepened, the strength of the northwest became stronger and stronger.

It seems that the elite troops of the empire were just training the training of the Eighth Route Army and the 40th Army. An ancient civilization that had been weak for hundreds of years had exploded with amazing patience when facing destruction.

In this competition of endurance, one nation is destined to fall and another nation will rise.

Walking on the corridor of the headquarters, Lieutenant General Iimura looked up at the blue sky, but his mood was stirred.

"General, Commander, come to you!"

The officer on duty at the headquarters whispered behind Iimura Kazuki. Lieutenant General Iimura Kazuki was criticized by the top leaders of the Manchurian Railway and was not a secret within the headquarters.

Lieutenant General Iimura nodded and agreed, "I understand."
Chapter completed!