The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1370 Pressure from the Kwantung Army Headquarters (Second update)

Kwantung Army Headquarters.

Commander Umezu Umejiro looked very unhappy.

He originally thought that after Fujita's division reached the Jinzhou battlefield, the Eighth Route Army operating there would suffer a devastating blow.

As a result, not only did they fail to solve the dangerous situation faced by the Jinzhou garrison, but they lost troops and generals in the battle to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army...

That was a truly full division of the Kwantung Army. Together with the Jinzhou garrison that cooperated in the battle, the total strength of the Kwantung Army participating in the war exceeded 50,000.

The Eighth Route Army they had to deal with only had 2,000 people at most, a disparity of more than ten times in strength, and had a strong advantage in artillery fire and air support...

No matter what aspect was analyzed before the war, the final victory should belong to the Kwantung Army.

As a result, not only did they not win, but they were on the verge of being defeated.

Umezu Umejiro couldn't understand.

But the contents of the telegram do not lie.

Although the battle report opened by Lieutenant General Fujita did not have any intention of asking for help, Umezu Umejiro could not let the increasingly bad situation on the Jinzhou battlefield go unnoticed.

If Fujita's division is finally defeated on the Jinzhou battlefield, the Kwantung Army will be embarrassed. As the commander of the Kwantung Army, he will be affected more or less.

Therefore, even for the sake of his own future, Umezu Umejiro cannot allow the situation on the Jinzhou battlefield to continue to deteriorate.

He turned around and asked the chief of staff: "How is the assembly of the other reinforcements going?"

The Chief of Staff has been following the latest developments in this division.

The later the Eighth Route Army operating in the Northeast is eliminated, the greater the price the Kwantung Army will pay.

The chief of staff hoped that the reinforcements would be assembled as soon as possible, rush to the battlefield, and capture the Eighth Route Army active on the Jinzhou battlefield with lightning speed.

Then join forces with the Fujita Division to attack Chaoyang and eliminate the Eighth Route Army that captured Chaoyang City.

However, the reinforcements were too far away from the Jinzhou battlefield, and after the Kwantung Army dispatched five or six divisions south to reinforce the North China Front, its strength was no longer as abundant as imagined. It was not unusually difficult to assemble a division in a hurry to reinforce Jinzhou.

Despite this, after half a month of hard work, the chief of staff was able to assemble the reinforcements of a division.

Facing Umezu Umejiro's slightly anxious look, he replied: "Commander, please rest assured..."

"In five days at the latest, the second wave of reinforcements will be able to go south to Jinzhou to join the battle."

"By then we will be able to assemble two main divisions at the same time to besiege the Jinzhou Eighth Route Army..."

"With a strength advantage of forty times, no matter how strong the Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness is, no matter how flexible its combat methods are, and no matter how cunning its commanders are, they cannot escape the fate of being completely annihilated by us in the face of absolute strength."

Hearing this, Umezu Umejiro felt much better, but his frown did not relax and he continued to ask!

"How's the situation in Chaoyang?"

"Since Chaoyang City was captured by the Eighth Route Army, we have rarely received news about Chaoyang!"

The chief of staff quickly answered the call...

"The humble position has arranged for the intelligence department to infiltrate into Chaoyang..."

"At the same time, the surrounding garrisons were ordered to send reconnaissance troops to Chaoyang to find out the actual strength and equipment of the Eighth Route Army, and to determine the location of their garrison..." "Create conditions for the mopping up troops to counterattack Chaoyang."

Umezu Umejiro became interested as soon as he heard this, and quickly asked: "Know yourself and the enemy and you will be victorious in any battle..."

"How's the investigation going now?"

"Have the intelligence department and reconnaissance troops found out the total strength and equipment of the Eighth Route Army in Chaoyang?"

"Hai..." The chief of staff gave Umezu Umejiro a rare affirmative answer.

"The headquarters has indeed received a lot of the latest information about the Chaoyang Eighth Route Army."

"It is said that the main force of the Eighth Route Army operating in Chaoyang exceeds 2,000 people... They are well-equipped, equipped with more than ten mountain field guns and infantry guns, and have certain offensive and anti-tank capabilities..."

"They are also setting up a base area and recruiting new soldiers in Chaoyang, which they just occupied..."

"The local Chinese people are very enthusiastic about joining the army. They have recruited two to three thousand new soldiers and are training at various stations..."

"Once these recruits are allowed to form combat effectiveness...the total strength of the Eighth Route Army operating in Chaoyang will definitely exceed 5,000 people..."

"There is news that the Eighth Route Army is still mobilizing captured puppet Manchurian troops to join the Eighth Route Army and turn their guns to attack our Kwantung Army..."

"But the effect is not good..."

"Most of the puppet Manchurian troops stationed in Chaoyang are not local Chinese. Their families live in areas controlled by us. They are afraid that their families will be retaliated by us if they join the Eighth Route Army. As a result, the Eighth Route Army only recruited a few of the thousands of puppet Manchurian troops. Soldier……"

"Otherwise they will immediately have thousands more combat troops..."

"After all, those puppet Manchurian Army soldiers were trained by the Kwantung Army...except for their poor fighting will, their combat effectiveness is still good."

Umezu Umejiro knew the puppet Manchurian Army under his command quite well. In addition, he had served in the North China Front and knew that the Eighth Route Army often mobilized puppet prisoners to join the Eighth Route Army to increase its strength in a short period of time.

Afraid that the Eighth Route Army operating in the Northeast would do the same, they mobilized captured puppet Manchurian troops to join the Eighth Route Army.

In this way, they can obtain a new force that can immediately go into battle in a very short period of time.

Unexpectedly, the Eighth Route Army, which was good at doing ideological work for prisoners, collapsed in front of the prisoners of the puppet Manchuria Army, and the mobilization failed.

Then his whole face was covered in surprise, and he slapped the table and ordered: "The headquarters will immediately formulate a troop deployment plan..."

"The locally formed puppet Manchuria army must be stationed in other places..."

"Starting from today, all puppet Manchurian troops in Northeast China will conduct a self-examination, and soldiers of the puppet Manchurian troops are prohibited from stationing in the place where their families are..."

The chief of staff was convinced and immediately flattered Umezu Umejiro: "Your Excellency, Commander, is wise..."

"As long as the families of the Puppet Manchurian Army soldiers captured by the Eighth Route Army are not in their base area, they will not be able to mobilize a Puppet Manchurian Army prisoner to join the Eighth Route Army..."

"Even if they can recruit new soldiers among the local people, it will take a lot of time to train them into an army!"

"By then, perhaps their new troops have not yet formed combat effectiveness, and the main force of the Kwantung Army has already recaptured Chaoyang and eliminated them..."

Umezu Umejiro felt that he had made a very wise decision, and he especially enjoyed the flattery of the Chief of Staff. He looked at him and continued to ask: "Since the Eighth Route Army did not recruit new soldiers from the prisoners of the Puppet Manchuria Army, what are they going to do with the prisoners of the Puppet Manchuria Army? …”

"If they are released unconditionally, the surrounding Kwantung Army will try to regroup them, deploy a certain number of officers, form a new Puppet Manchurian Army unit, and continue to attack the Eighth Route Army!"

(End of this chapter)