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Part III Blood and Fire War of Resistance

The capital of Manchuria is in Xinjing instead of Fengtian, Xinjing is Changchun, the capital of Manchuria, and the Kwantung Army headquarters are all located here. In winter, Xinjing is covered with snow, and the shops on the streets are tightly closed. This will be considered to be unopened in the south. But this is definitely not the case.

Rikio Nosuke was very familiar with Manchuria. Before the war, he served in the Kwantung Army for seven years and worked in the South Manchuria and North Manchuria. During that time, he often came to Xinjing and was very familiar with Xinjing.

At this moment, Xinjing looks like in previous years. The war is still far from here, and the residents here cannot hear the sound of gunfire. The biggest difference from the inner city is that Xinjing was cleaned very clean. There are no leaflets, and no assassination.

The door of the Kwantung Army Command was as strict as usual. The soldiers standing guard at the door were wearing thick winter clothes, their hats were pulled down to cover their ears, and their hands were wearing gloves. Their faces were strictly protected. But even so, the squad was half shorter than those in the pass.

When Ritakanosuke walked into the Kanto Military Academy building, he felt a little strange. There were obviously more officers in the corridor than before. From time to time, there were quietly whispers. Okamura looked at it and saw no acquaintances. In a few years, the personnel changes at the Kanto Military Office headquarters were very different. The officers who were with him had either been transferred out or promoted. Most of the officers on this floor were below the magistrate.

Seeing Venus on Ritakanosuke's shoulders, the young officers immediately stopped talking and looked at him with complicated and dissatisfied eyes. Ritakanosuke was a little numb to this gaze, and he saw this kind of gaze these days. He has been here for two weeks and has not yet led the commander of Kanto Army Meizu Mijiro to talk. He proposed to transfer the main force of the Kanto Army to the east of Hebei to the east of Hebei to cooperate with the North China Expeditionary Army inside and outside to annihilate the Chinese army and the outside of the Beiping City.

This suggestion was flatly rejected by the Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army Yukio Kasahara. Yukio Kasahara believed that the Kwantung Army's strength had been weakened to a great extent. If the main force was transferred to Hebei East, once the Soviet army attacked the Far East battlefield and the Mongolian battlefield, it would be out of control. Kazunosuke believed that Manchukuo still had about 500,000 troops of the National Defense Forces and Garrisons, and could send all these troops to the front line.

But Yukio Kasahara told him that the Manchurian team would only fight if there was an imperial army supervising the battle. If there was no imperial army supervising the battle, these soldiers would flee. It happened in the early Mongolian battle. Two thousand Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces attacked 10,000 Manchurian National Welfare Army. The battle lasted only half an hour, and the Manchurian National Welfare Army collapsed. In addition, if there was no order from the military headquarters, the Kwantung Army could not enter the pass without authorization.

Ritakasuke scoffed at the latter reason from September 18th to now, the Kanto Army has not acted without permission. But Kasahara Yukio used this as a reason and told him not to do it. Apart from Kasahara Yukio's refusal, Kanto Army Commander Mijiro Umezu never saw him, which shows that Mijiro Umezu did not agree with Okamura's suggestion that his mission this time is likely to fail. Today he plans to make his last effort to meet Mijiro Umezu and convince him.

, "List Gaojun...

Ritakanosuke turned his head and saw that he was Lieutenant General Qin Yansanro, deputy chief of staff of the Kanto Army. Ritakanosuke turned around and saluted Qin Yansanro, and then asked, "What's wrong today? Is there anything wrong?"

, "Don't you know? Shi Shun... Qin Yansanlang didn't care even though he was a little surprised.

, "Ishihara? Chief Director?... Ritakanosuke was a little surprised, and Qin Yansanro nodded: "Let's go, let's go up together...

Qin Yansanro did not know that Ritakasuke's intention was a military secret, only Commanders Mejiro Umezu and Yukio Kasahara knew. Qin Yansanro didn't ask him whether he led the way upstairs. Ritakasuke followed him, and Masatoki followed him. Masatoki also participated in the talks with Yukio Kasahara. Masatoki couldn't say he didn't hate him, but this time he went to Xinjing, he obviously felt the Kanto Army Command's two different attitudes towards this guy. The middle and lower-level officers liked him very much, but the senior generals hated him very much.

During the negotiations with Yukio Kasahara, there were very few words to relocate the Masahisa. After the negotiations, the Masahisa disappeared and he did not tell him what he was doing when he came back.

The situation on the second floor is much better than on the first floor. However, when passing by the office door, Ritakanosuke also noticed that the officers in the room also looked a little strange. The Kanto Army Command building has three floors. Umezu Mijiro's office is not on the third floor, but on the second floor.

Qin Yansanro brought Ritakanosuke into his office. His office was next to the first lesson. The office was very traditional, not big but had all the internal organs. Ritakanosuke stood there without moving. The Japanese army rules were very strict, and the high rank did not speak. The lower-level officer could only stand and Qian Masato stood behind him two steps.

, "Make Gao Jun. Don't be restrained, just be at will." Qin Yansanro smiled. He had a good impression of Gao Nosuke. When the North China Expeditionary Army and the Kwantung Army joined forces to promote the war against the Soviet Union, the Kwantung Army was Qin Yansanro.

"Thank you,... Rigao Nosuke still thanked Qin Yansanro first according to the etiquette of "Japan". Then he took off his coat and threw it on the couch. Qian Zhengxin took off his military coat honestly and held it in his arms. Sitting on the other side, Qin Yansanro's orderly soldiers brought tea to the two of them.

, "Go to report to the former Chief of Staff, Li Gao Jun arrived... Qin Yansanlang ordered the orderly soldiers, and the orderly soldiers agreed and turned around and went out. At the same time, they carefully pulled the door up.

Qin Yansanro looked at Li Gao Nosuke and shook his head slightly: "Li Gao Jun, I'm not in a high mood...

, "Can't get taller." Ritakanosuke picked up the tea and sipped it.: "The enemy situation in North China is serious, and the task assigned by the commander has not been completed. Alas, Qin Yanjun, what will the Kwantung Army do in the future of the Kwantung Army?...

Qin Yansanro sighed slightly, walked to Ritakanosuke to sit down, and smiled bitterly and said, "Ishihara Jun has proposed a new strategy, but the cabinet did not approve it, so he had to find another way."

Qin Yansanro has a connection with the country and is very clear about Ishihara's purpose. Ritakano helps his eyebrows slightly raised: "Oh, Ishihara is a senior who is worthy of admiration. I wonder what his strategy is? Did he give up Jiangnan again?"

, "Some of it is,... Qin Yansanro said: "Ishihara proposed to give up Jiangnan and withdraw all Jiangnan troops and North China troops to Manchuria. He fought a decisive battle with the Chinese army on the periphery of Manchuria, and eliminated the elite Chinese troops in one battle. He forced Chiang Kai-shek to seek peace...

"Seeking peace?" Ritaka Nosuke was stunned. Then he saw Qin Yansanro's expression and understood that this was a slander. The one who needed peace the most now was "Japan": "It seems that Commander Okamura and General Ishihara's view of the decisive battle in North China is basically the same, but the way of handling it is different.

, "What? Commander Okamura also believes that the North China Expeditionary Army should retreat to Manchuria? ... Qin Yansanro was a little strange. According to the tradition of the Japanese army, the retreat had a very bad impact on the commander. It was cowardly. He would be ridiculed by his colleagues, and if it was serious, he would go to the military court.

Ritakanosuke shook his head and said bitterly: "No, it was the main force of the Kanto Army who attacked North China and fought against the Chinese army in the Pingjin area...

Qin Yansanlang couldn't help but be stunned. The main force of the Kwantung Army attacked North China? The Far East and Mongolia didn't want it anymore? After a long time, he smiled bitterly: "400,000 imperial troops. Six years ago, the 100,000 imperial troops could be killed from Peiping to Taiyuan, and the 300,000 imperial troops could be killed from Shanghai to Nanjing, but now, alas, I really didn't think so.

Ritakanosuke also sighed heavily, and Qian Masato said at this time: "Sir, I think there is a reason for this. Although the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army has increased, it is far from that. I think an imperial soldier can withstand three Chinese soldiers. In this way, the gap between the North China Expeditionary Army and the Chinese army is not as big as imagined. The Kwantung Army can reinforce 100,000 troops to North China, which can make up for the gap in force...

Ritsunosuke sneered in his heart. The Japanese army was still dreaming of racial beauty. At the beginning of the war, he believed that today's soldiers could be regarded as ten Chinese soldiers. It was not because of the Bushido, but because of the equipment gap. The Chinese team was too poor, except for the few troops coming out of the southwest, the rest of the troops. A division, tens of thousands of people fired ammunition at a time, could not catch up with a Japanese brigade.

However, after six years of war, the Chinese team, at least the elite Chinese troops faced by the North China dispatched troops, had surpassed the Japanese army in terms of equipment, and also had air superiority. In the battle of Hubei and northern Hubei, the Japanese army suffered a crushing defeat. In these battles, all the Chinese team gathered four to five times the strength, but under such forces, the Japanese army had no strength to fight back at all, which means that the three-fold force comparison was not feasible. At most, one to two, an increase of 100,000 troops, which is 600,000 to 2 million. The gap in force is still very large.

But neither Takanosuke nor Qin Hiroshiro wanted to refute the resignation of the power. Qin Hiroshiro now understood why Kasahara Yukio was so worried after the last talks. Kasahara Yukio served as chief of staff in North China. He was the chief of staff at the Second Battle of Tsuura Road. He knew the battlefield of China very well. When he knew Okamura Yasuji's plan, he understood the difficulties.

, "100,000?" Ritakasuke silently calculated in his heart, but smiled bitterly: "The commander asked for twenty to three hundred thousand. If not, the 100,000 might be able to go back."

, "Is there a hundred thousand, Okamura Jun will let you go back? How could he let the two walls of North China leave? ... Qin Yansanlang joked, but in his heart he felt embarrassed. The essence of the Kwantung Army had been drawn, and it was severely weakened. More than 100,000 troops were transferred to reinforce China. Will the Far East and Mongolia give up?

, "Report,... Qin Yansanlang's orderly soldier came in: "The commander asked General Li Gao to go to his office."

Ritakanosuke stood up and put his military uniform in his arms. He picked up his coat and said goodbye to Qin Yansanro, but Qian Masato put on his coat. It seemed that he was about to go out. The two walked along a quiet corridor toward Mijiro Umezu at the end of the corridor.

In Umezu Mijiro's office, not only Yuki Kasahara but also Kanji Ishihara, the three of them sat down with their finished characters. Ishihara was in the middle, and Umezu Mijiro and Yuki Kasahara sat on the left and right.

, "Let's go in and sit down."

Before Ritto Nobusuke could salute him, Umezu Mijiro invited him in. Ritto Nobusuke saluted the three of them according to the military etiquette, and then went in and sat down. In such an occasion, there was usually no seat for the Masatoshi. However, Umezu Mijiro still asked him to sit down.

, "Litao Jun, you have been here for two weeks. I haven't seen you yet. Do you know why? Because I don't know how to answer Okamura Jun's request...!~!
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