Ishihara Waner is also thinking about it. Everyone knows that the Chinese youth army is in full swing. The Kwantung Army claims to have a 170 million army, but it was actually only 150 million at its peak. The current combat force of the army is about 97, and the supply of armaments, materials, and ammunition is relatively insufficient. In the joint attack with the German army, the Soviet army once concentrated its troops to severely attack this annoying mangy dog ​​of the Kwantung Army. However, it did not receive the expected effect of defeat. The Soviet Union was already exhausted from dealing with the German attack. Now it is obviously impossible for them to turn around and launch counterattacks against the Japanese and German troops on the east and west fronts. |[-] Literature

The strategy of the Soviet army is very simple, that is, attack against attack. The best defense is to attack. Only by attacking can the enemy's true strategic intentions be revealed. The strategy can be said to be savage and stupid, but it must be admitted that the strategy of the Soviet army is very effective.

The Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad caused huge losses to the German army. In contrast, the German army has stopped its main assault on Stalingrad due to its overly long front line and excessive consumption. The strategic purpose of the Germans is already very obvious, that is, the Soviet Union's oil fields in the North Caucasus region.

Ishihara Wanji predicted that if the Kwantung Army's troops in the Far East concentrated their forces and returned to attack one of the Chinese army's east and west clusters, they would definitely catch the Chinese army by surprise, and could not wait for Chen Cheng's east cluster to break through the Yeshan Fortress and Tiewan. The fortress group, in that case the east and west clusters of the Chinese army will form two iron fists that echo each other. |[-] Literature

Ishihara Waner can see that the commander-in-chief Umezu Yoshijiro is unwilling to be responsible for the strategic general retreat. To be honest, he is also uneasy in his heart. The Kwantung Army is the birthplace of Xia Keshang. Wouldn't all the high-level generals be killed like killing non-nationals?Anti-Japanese Blood Sacrifice Mountains and Rivers 888

Ishihara Wanji knew that his worries were also those of Umezu Yoshijiro, so the two powerful figures, the commander-in-chief and the chief of staff, have always had inconsistent views. This is so that someone can come forward to clean up the mess when an emergency occurs. .

Ishihara smiled and hesitated for a moment, then turned to Umezu Yoshijiro and said solemnly: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, now is the time to act instead of thinking. If you have any problems, please let me alone! Everything is for His Majesty the Emperor and for the Empire."

Umezu Yoshijiro knew that Ishihara Wanji had made up his mind, so he nodded and said: "Ishihara-san, you have worked hard, the empire will remember everything you have done, and history will be fair to us for our silent contribution to the empire today. recorded."

Ishihara Waner gathered all the staff and the commanders of the various armies, stood in front of the huge map and said: "The Chinese youth army is on the west road, and it is the strongest army in the Chinese army, and on the east road, it is also the elite of the Chinese army." Relatively speaking, the Chinese youth army on the west road is stronger, and its combat effectiveness and fighting will far exceed that of the Chinese army on the east road."

Sanyuan Inoue, the commander of the First Front Army, is older than Umezu Yoshijiro in terms of qualifications. If it weren’t for the large-scale expansion of the Japanese army, no one would pay attention to an old bone like him even if he was so rotten at home. Compared with the commander of the Second Front Army For Rensuke Isotani, the qualifications of General Sanyuan Inoue are completely competent for the Third Front Army Commander Machijiri Ryoki, Fourth Front Army Commander Miyata Toshiro, and Fifth Front Army Commander Tani Hisao. As the commander of the Kwantung Army, Sanyuan Inoue naturally couldn't feel comfortable letting a junior be on top of his head.

The most important thing is that Sanyuan Inoue is one of the few undefeated generals in the Japanese army so far, because he has been in the positions of the staff headquarters and the director of education, and served as the imperial military officer and the head of the guard division. With actual combat experience, it is naturally not a defeat. As an excellent theorist, Sanyuan Inoue and Tojo Hideki have the same smell. Sanyuan Inoue even trained a special combat team in the First Front Army under his command. The special forces of the tank, and the way this unit fights the tank is simply unimaginable to the extreme, and even organized a group of Japanese officers and soldiers to use the engineer shovel to hold the mud, go straight to the tank, block the tank's observation mirror and blind the enemy tank?

For Ishihara Waner's nonsense, Sanyuan Inoue seemed very impatient. In Sanyuan Inoue's words, he just said what he had to say, what detours?Sanyuan Inoue hates Ishihara Waner, a guy who always makes people guess what he says, but Sanyuan Inoue absolutely does not admit that he has no brains.

Ishihara Wanji also saw Sanyuan Inoue's impatience, so he said: "I have received a confidential message that the main force of our Imperial Navy's joint fleet was completely lost in the Pacific Ocean Battle. The Navy has been deceiving the Empire and our army. The basic condition for us to fight in the Far East is that the navy must guarantee our logistics supply through sea transportation. How is our supply situation? You don’t need me to talk about it, do you?”

Ishihara Wanji's words were like a bomb thrown into the soup bowl. Umezu Yoshijiro had been thinking about what excuse Ishihara Wanji would find for withdrawing troops, but he didn't expect Ishihara Wanji to find such an absurd reason?In order to celebrate the great victory of the Imperial Navy, only Tokyo held a parade of lights that His Majesty the Emperor personally participated in twice. Now it is said that the navy is actually defeated. You must know that the Japanese navy is actually the bones of the Japanese. You say the main force of the combined navy fleet Destruction is equivalent to taking away the spine of the Japanese.

Although the conflict between the army and the navy is difficult to resolve, from the perspective of the Japanese, the army is sometimes proud of the navy, especially the world's largest warships such as the Yamato and Musashi.

Sanyuan Inoue also turned pale immediately. Unlike those generals who were frustrated or scolded the navy's prodigals, Sanyuan Inoue asked very calmly: "Chief of Staff Ishihara, the source of the news is accurate, and the navy admits it?"

Ishihara smiled and said: "The source of the news is very accurate. Whether the navy will admit it depends on when the US military will start to attack again. Therefore, we must transform passiveness into initiative and regain the lost strategic initiative."

All eyes in the conference room were on Ishihara Wanji. Regaining the strategic initiative is undoubtedly the dream of the Japanese army, but after losing the entire Chinese battlefield and Manchuria, facing the menacing Chinese army, how easy is it to regain the strategic initiative?

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