The third part of the bloody war, Chapter 10, the storm, the third section of the war drum (14)

"Colonel Tsuji!" Ritakanosuke still pretended to scold, "What are you talking about nonsense!"

Masato Tsuji did not shrink back and stepped forward and shouted loudly: "General! Commander! Am I wrong? Since the Battle of Northern Hubei, the empire has been retreating step by step. The main reason is that the senior generals are afraid! The loss of the samurai god!"

"Colonel Tsuji!" Ritsugusuke shouted, stood up, quickly turned around and stared at him fiercely: "This is a high-level meeting! Don't talk nonsense! No one has lost the samurai god! We are all sacrificing blood for the empire and His Majesty!"

Masato Tsuji looked up with his head high without fear, facing Tatsunosuke's gaze: "Isn't it? When I went to North China Expeditionary Army and Kanto Army, I heard about retreating everywhere. When we retreat, when we retreat, we are all emphasizing the huge gap in the enemy and our forces! May I ask General Ishihara, was there a huge gap in the enemy and our forces during the Liutiao Lake? Is there a huge gap in the enemy and our forces during the Lugou Bridge? Is there a huge gap in the enemy and our forces during the Battle of Shanghai?"

Masato Tsuji's bi question left Ishihara Kanir and Umezu Mijiro speechless. Ishihara Kanir was the mastermind behind the 918th century. It can be said that without him, there would be no 918th century; Umezu Mijiro was the backbone of the expansion faction, and insisted on increasing troops to North China and expanding the situation, which eventually led to Japan's full-scale invasion of China.

But Masato Tsuji's questioning made the two of them feel a little angry. Ishihara Kanji Yin had a calm face, Umezu Mijiro shone with a cold light, trying his best to suppress his anger, and Yukio Kasahara showed disgusting eyes.

Ritsukonosuke is now starting to pick himself out. He must lead the war to Mijiro Umezu and Kanjiro Ishihara, so he sneered: "According to your words, retreating is cowardly, and moving forward is a samurai? Humph, this is just the judgment of a senior private. As a colonel, it is wrong to judge the situation in this way!"

Before Masatoshi Tsuji refuted, Ritsukonosuke pointed at the outside: "This is a senior meeting, you can go out!"

"Deputy Chief of Staff!" Masato Tsuji did not retreat and stood firmly: "As a soldier, the first thing is confidence! But I found that General Ishihara and the commander did not have confidence. The empire now needs us to fight hard, not retreat. The Chinese army has the advantage of military strength and air advantages, but it is impossible to give up Hiratsu!"

"Then what strategy do you have to win this decisive battle?" Ishihara asked coldly.

"But I have confidence!" Masato Tsuji stood there motionlessly, looking at Ishihara Kanir calmly. Ritakanosuke took the opportunity to dodge and let Masato Tsujihara Kanirir face to face.

Ishihara Kanir stood up and walked slowly to Masato Tsuji, looking up and down at Masato Tsuji who was standing straight up and down, and changed his words: "Young people, it is a good thing to have confidence, but blind confidence cannot win this war."

"No," Tsuji Masato replied loudly: "In North China, although the Chinese army has superior strength, the empire's advantage lies in Bushido and better organization. The Kuomintang and the Communist Party in China are fighting each other, and the local army and the Central Army have many conflicts. Let's talk about the Northern Front. The Chinese army on the Northern Front is composed of Fu Zuoyi's army, G army, Yan Xishan's army, and the Central Army. As long as we defeat one of them in the first battle, the rest of the troops will flee. On the Southern Front, the Chinese general organized an army of 1.5 million, but Tang Enbo on the Western Front had conflicts with the Chinese general, and Sun Lianzhong was a local army, and had natural conflicts with the Central Army. So the Chinese army looked a lot, but in fact there were many internal conflicts, just like Fu Jian during the Battle of Feishui."

Meijiro Umezu walked slowly in the office with his hands behind his back. When he started to tell the story, he turned his back to him and slowly walked to the window and looked at the street outside the window.

"But from the Battle of North Hubei to the Battle of Shandong, the performance of the local army is no worse than that of the Central Army." Meijiro Umezu's tone was a little light: "What reason do you have to judge that this time will be different."

"In the Battle of Northern Hubei, General Anan fell into the trap of the Chinese army; in the Battle of Shandong, General Matsui made a wrong judgment. In these two battles, the Chinese army took the initiative in the battlefield early and quickly formed an absolute advantage. This covered up the internal conflicts of the Chinese army and had no chance to break out, but if we gave the Chinese army a heavy blow in Pingjin, their internal conflicts would break out quickly."

Ritakanosuke nodded slightly. Although he didn't believe it, Masatoshi Tsuji has not been idle in the past few months since he went to North China. He has carefully studied these battles, but Masatoshi Tsuji was wrong. If we look at it from a longer time, the Battle of Shanghai and the two Battles of Jinpu Road, the Chinese local army was not bad in the War of Resistance.

From the War of Resistance Against Japan to the present, the Chinese nation has been in a high spirit, from ordinary soldiers to senior generals, they have shown extremely rare bravery on the battlefield. Senior generals who died on the battlefield can make a long list, from the commander of the army to the platoon leader, there are all classes of people.

"This is an inherent contradiction within China. During the war, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party reached the brink of war several times. As for the local army and the Chinese army, we knew it from Yan Xishan." Masato Tsuji was still very confident.

"From the beginning of the war to the present, we have always been disappointed several times. At least before the war, the Chinese army showed no signs of such a thing." Umezu Mijiro still did not turn around and still looked out the window: "Do you have any plans?"

"Yes," Masato Tsuji replied without hesitation: "It's winter now, and I estimate that the attack of the Chinese general will start from February to March, but at this time, the Far East is still filled with heavy snow, and the Soviet army cannot launch an attack. Moreover, once our army defeats the Chinese army, the Soviet army will be even more unlikely to attack. Their main battlefield is in Europe.

We used this winter to transfer 150,000 to 200,000 main forces of the Kwantung Army into the pass and gathered in the Pingjin area. First, we concentrated the main forces to defeat the troops on the northern line of China, which was about 300,000. Then we used Peking Tianjin to attract the Chinese army, and the main forces were on the periphery to fight the Chinese army."

Umezu Mijiro turned around and changed his eyes with Ishihara Kanirjiā. This Masato Tsuji was not very reckless. Ritakasuke secretly laughed at himself. What Masato Tsuji was actually the way the Japanese always dealt with differences.

If there is a difference among the Japanese, the first thing we look at is not the plan, but confidence. After having confidence, we will discuss the plan. But at this time, as long as there is a decent plan, it will be adopted, regardless of whether the plan is full of missed or not.

Masatoshi Tsuji's plan looked good, and the Soviet army would not attack in this season, but then he was willing to do so. The Northern Army looked weaker than the Southern China Army, but Fu Zuoyi was good at defending, the Eighth Route Army fought tenaciously, and the Jinsui Army might not be able to attack, but defense was still possible. At least it could be stalemate for a period of time. The Northern Army might not be so easy to defeat.

Secondly, the Chinese army could not follow Tsuji Masatoshi's abacus. Ritakanosuke knew with his toes. Tsuji Masatoshi believed that the Chinese army would attack Shijiazhuang Baoding first, but if the Chinese army went the other way, it would just cut off Shijiazhuang and Baoding, and the main force advanced to Pekini? It even took risks and went further north and only surrounded the Pekini area.

Even if everything develops according to Masato Tsuji, after the failure of the Northern Route Army, can't the main force of the Southern Front stop the attack? They took away Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Jizhong, and the troops were scattered, and then stopped. The Kanto Army could not stay in the pass for a long time. As long as the Soviet army had a slight move, Mijiro Umezu could only transfer the troops back.

There are too many variables in this, and only when all parties act according to Masato Tsuji Tsuji, can this plan be successful? Ritakanosuke believes that with Ishihara Kanji's military literacy, he must have discovered the omissions.

Sure enough, Ishihara Kaner asked, "This is an adventure. The Chinese General will not just watch the failure of the Northern Route Army. When the Imperial Army attacked the Northern Line, the Chinese Army on the Southern Line can quickly advance northward and support the Northern Line."

"Our army has only used 150,000 troops, and the main force is still in the Pektsugi area. Our army can block them." Masato Tsuji replied calmly.

"No, North China's dispatched troops are 450,000, Kwantung troops are 150,000, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Cangzhou, and Jizhong, how many troops are you going to release?" Ishiyuan's tone suddenly became stern.

"Your Excellency, this is not a matter of military strength, but a matter of confidence!" Feeling the pressure of the Chief of Staff of the Imperial General Staff, Masato Tsuji fought back: "At the beginning of the war, 100,000 imperial troops could rampant in North China, but now? We only lost two battles and lost the confidence of the entire war? If we continue like this, we have no hope."

"It is precisely to win a glimmer of life for the empire that I made such a plan." Ishihara Kanji suddenly shouted: "You are gambling, do you understand? Gambling!"

"Many people also say that Yamamoto Go-zun General, but what's the result?" Masato Tsuji was full of confidence. Before Yamamoto Iroku planned to attack Pearl Harbor, the Navy also opposed it again and believed that it was gambling.

Ishihara Kanir couldn't speak for a moment, and Mejiro Umezu shook his head slightly, but one thing in Tsuji Masatoshi's judgment was still quite attractive, that is, it was impossible for the Soviet Union to launch an attack in winter, and the Soviet Union would only attack after the imperial army failed in North China.

The empire is now in short supply. The North China Expeditionary Army and the Kwantung Army both have insufficient troops in the face of the Chinese army and the Soviet army. If the Soviet army cannot attack in winter and concentrate the main forces of the two fronts to fight, victory is still possible.

"Fifteen thousand?" Umezu Mijiro murmured to himself. Kasahara Yukio worked with him for several years and knew his habits well. He immediately noticed that Umezu Mijiro was a little moved. He retorted: "Commander, there are signs that the Mongolian side, the Soviet-Mongolian army is actively preparing for an attack, and the Okabu General has issued an alarm several times."

Ritakanosuke felt that he had to speak. Without waiting for Umezu Mijiro to answer, he immediately said, "I have a new idea."

This sentence attracted Ishihara Kanir and Umezu Mijiro. Ritakanosuke walked to the coffee table and pointed at the map with his finger: "I feel that our current formation is too wide. Commander Okamura hopes to use the strong city defenses of Shijiazhuang and Baoding to attract the Chinese army to attack. But from another aspect, the distance from Shijiazhuang to Peiping is too far and difficult to echo. Therefore, on the Western Front, we gave up Shijiazhuang, Baoding Cangzhou, and shrink the troops to the periphery of Pingjin, Gaobeidian, Zhuozhou, Gu'an, and Jinghai. This line, backed by the solid city defenses of Pingjin, greatly increased the density of troops, and was convenient to echo."

Takanosuke's fingers drew a slightly curved arc on the map. He paused and looked up at Mejiro Umezu and Kanjiro Ishihara, as if waiting for each other to digest his suggestions.

"But to realize the plan to defeat the Chinese army, the Kanto Army must have at least 100,000 people entering the pass." Ritakanosuke cleverly reduced the 150,000 to 100,000, which is just right.ra!~!
Chapter completed!