February 26, 1939!

It is already the cold winter of the year, and early spring is about to usher in. Pingbei City, a big city in northern China, is still cold and windy, with few pedestrians on the streets!

Perhaps it is not only because the weather is cold and life is helpless, but people who have been struggling to survive for more than a year under the rule of the Japanese army are unwilling to go out, but because Pingbei City has suddenly increased its vigilance since the previous two days.

The Japanese and security forces patrolling the streets are at least twice as many as the previous two days. When you meet a few pedestrians, you usually come forward to check their documents. If you don’t have a document, you will be taken away by the security forces and detained. The close relatives will bring the crime money and their own documents to the Security Army to lead people.

Without asking, it is clear that this is a big move by the Japanese North China Front Army, or a big man is coming, and the spy in Pingbei City of the Military Control Commission also looked at the Japanese North China Front Army headquarters!

In the small conference room of the Japanese North China Front Command, four people were sitting in Banban.

There are General Susanmoto, the commander of the Front Army, Lieutenant General Miyamoto, Chief of Staff of the Front Army, Lieutenant General Itagaki Shiro, the commander of the Third Japanese Army, and a Japanese Lieutenant General with a cold face and a sagging corners of his eyes, showing a bit of cruelty.

Obviously, this is an extremely high-standard military conference. Shan Shanyuan and the other two are already the highest military decision-makers in North China.

But even Army General Shan Shanyuan was still sitting at the bottom of the conference table instead of the main seat. This was the first time that Shan Shanyuan had arrived in China for more than half a year.

Sitting in the main seat was an old man with a big belly and a tall and tall face.

Facing the old man in his seventies sitting in the main seat, General Shan Shanyuan, the current commander of the North China Front Army, looked stiff.

Perhaps, if anyone knows that he will leave as the commander of the front army to become an education director, he may not be in a good mood.

After the "New Year's Day offensive" was set, Shan Shanyuan knew that his time in China had begun to count down, but he did not expect that the base camp would be so unpretentious, and he couldn't wait to transfer him away in less than two months.

If it were someone else, he, the former Army Minister, would not have looked at the person who came to announce the base camp order, but the old man in front of him would not dare to mess with him.

Prince Miyama Hitomiya, the uncle of His Majesty the Emperor, was promoted to marshal 20 years ago and is currently the chief of staff of the Japanese Army. In fact, the head of the Japanese Army. Every important command of the war of aggression against China was signed by him.

Faced with such a person, Shan Shanyuan could only obediently express his obedience.

"Jun Yuan, can you tell me why the situation in North China became so difficult?" The old man in military uniform asked straight to the point.

"Prince, the Chinese's second war zone hoarded heavy troops in North China, and behind it is the Yellow River chasm they called the last line of defense. They can only fight to the death and burst out with amazing combat power. This was something I and Itagaki Jun did not expect, so they suffered this setback!" Shan Shanyuan could only lower his head and answer.

But Shanshanyuan is not a mud. Even when facing the top figure in the army, he admitted that he had problems and also pulled out the front line commander Shiro Itagaki, who was designated by the base camp, with a gun and a stick. The subtext was clearly that it was not just my pot here, but the base camp and Shiro Itagaki were the main ones.

Shiro Itagaki, whose waist was straight, did not move, but his lower eyelids blocked the flash of fierce light.

"Yuan Jun, don't put the blame on the base camp. What I just said clearly is that I am not just referring to the so-called New Year's Day offensive, but the entire North China war situation." The old man did not intend to give this army general face at all, but said bluntly.

"The North China Front Army originally had a 330,000 troops. In the past year, how many imperial officers and soldiers were added to the North China Front Army? More than 130,000, does that mean that the North China Front Army has died in battle and had to retire due to injuries in the past year.

Do you think this responsibility should be borne by the base camp or His Majesty the Emperor himself?”

Shan Shanyuan's face turned pale but he was unable to refute it.

Although half of the blame was for the indoor mourning clothes, the guy was not there, so he, the commander of the North China Front Army at that time, had to bear it.

In 1938, it was Waterloo for the Japanese North China Front Army. In the Battle of Taierzhuang, the two elite divisions dispatched by the front army lost more than 20,000 people; in April, the Battle of Licheng was smuggled by the Chinese; in May, he took over the eight-sided siege of Shanxi, planned by the commander, and ended with the Chinese being wiped out a mixed brigade and a rising army major general; in September, the Chinese took the lead in the Jindong counterattack, racked his brains and played a trick, but he ended up with the loss of tens of thousands of people, and he also lost his lives of a lieutenant general and two major generals. The New Year's Day offensive that he had been holding back was beaten up, with a total loss of more than 60,000 people, and almost equal to the battle between Central China.

But one is that both sides have invested only 400,000 or 500,000 troops, and the other is that both sides have invested more than one million troops, which is no longer on the same level.

Seeing Shan Shanyuan lowering his head and silently stopping, the old man's tone became softer: "I remember that last year, Indoor Jun went to work, Yuan Jun, I told you before you took office, don't underestimate this ancient country, which has a civilization inheritance that we cannot reach. This is our best opportunity. Once you miss it, you may never be able to conquer them again.

Unfortunately, Yuanjun, you are still like those people, and you are still in the glory of the Imperial Army that easily takes away the three northeastern provinces and easily knocks on the gates of North China.

I am going to serve as the Education Director. I hope you will learn lessons and live up to the great trust of His Majesty the Emperor!”

"Hi! Shan Shanyuan will never let down His Majesty the Emperor, Your Majesty the Prince!" Shan Shanyuan was tougher, and now he saw that the boss had already given him a step, so he would hurry up and go down.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although the Education Director is not as powerful as the commander of the Front Army, he is still the chief of the Imperial Military Education. If he encounters an opportunity, he may make a comeback. Now he will be competing with the Chief of Staff of the Army, and he may even lose his position. He will be like the unlucky child in the indoor mourning clothes to have a free position in the military senator.

"Jun Yuan, although you made mistakes during your tenure, you are also a person with clear battle situations. Duotianjun and I want to hear your opinions on the war situation in China." Seeing Shan Shanyuan surrender, the old man smiled on his face.

"This..." Shan Shanyuan hesitated a little.

"But it's okay. I came to China this time to listen to the opinions of you, the generals of the front-line commanders, and make adjustments to His Majesty the Emperor.

The international situation is urgent now, and the German Empire is already on the verge of arrows and can shoot at their feuds at any time. His Majesty the Emperor and their secret envoys have been in contact with each other several times, and we may have a few more powerful enemies at any time.

We can only and must end the Chinese battlefield as soon as possible. The empire's goal is not just here, but the entire continent, and even the other end of the ocean." The old man's face became serious, and his eyes were filled with ambition.

"The empire's martial arts fortune is prosperous!" Several Japanese generals all showed joy on their faces, including Shan Shanyuan, who was still sad just now.

The more troops the empire uses, the more opportunities they will be for reusing the army generals, and the greater the wealth they will get. The family will take advantage of this wave of the empire.

"The empire has invested nearly one million troops in China, including the Central China Front Army and the North China Front Army. They launched attacks on China's inland from the north and south lines respectively. It seems to be an attack on the two fronts, which caused the Chinese side to divide its troops and weaken its investment in a certain direction.

However, through the battlefield over the past year, due to the different organizational issues and the generals' judgments on the situation, the two major fronts basically acted independently and could not form the joint force previously conceived by the base camp.

Just like in September before the New Year, our North China Front Army planned to dispatch divisions to increase troops in Central China according to the instructions of the headquarters, our North China Front Army Command needed to communicate with the Central China Front Army Command at the chief of staff, and then handed over to the General Staff personnel for tactical arrangements and finally sent the order to the division headquarters. The inefficiency is outrageous.

In the Battle of Taierzhuang, the detachment sent by the Fifth Division and the 10th Division failed, which was not unrelated to this inefficient communication." Shan Shanyuan began to talk freely.

"What is your opinion, Yuanjun?"

"I suggest that a general headquarters of the China Expeditionary Army should be established, with independent corps under its jurisdiction to command operations within China." Shan Shanyuan continued, regardless of the cold and cruel lieutenant general's sudden ugly face.

As the deputy chief of the Army and the president of the Army University, the deputy deputy of Prince Gong Ren from the Xianyuan, arrived in North China, just to take over as the commander of the North China Front Army! Shan Shanyuan stumbling to him before leaving, without any psychological burden.

"This old dog cannot die well!" The Japanese lieutenant general really hated Shan Shanyuan in front of him to his bones.

Before the appointment of his appointment as commander of the North China Front Army was announced, Shan Shanyuan, who was about to leave office and returned to his hometown, made a furious move for him. If anyone had to scold him, he would have to scold him.

"Well! Yuan Jun, you said it exactly what I want. Before I came, I discussed with His Majesty the Emperor about restructuring the organizational structure of the two major fronts in China. The base camp is far away and the information exchange in coordinating the two major fronts is too slow. Fighters are often fleeting, so they are so inefficient?

The establishment of the China Expeditionary Army Headquarters is imperative!" Compared with the dissatisfaction of his subordinates who had already been superficially dissatisfied, the old man nodded with satisfaction.

"What else?"

"There is also the battle situation in North China. China's Second War Zone has hundreds of thousands of troops, and its strength cannot be underestimated. However, the rest are not afraid of it, and only two armies need to be vigilant.

The first is the Four Army Regiment. The regiment is well-equipped and the officers and soldiers are brave and good at fighting. The commander of the regiment is even more cunning and tricky. The combination of the two has caused considerable damage to the imperial army in the past year, and it has become a major concern for the empire!

The second is the Eighty Army. The equipment and quality of the army are both ordinary, but the army is different from other Chinese armies. It is very good at hiding troops among the people. It uses this as a cover to vigorously develop new recruits and expands its strength very quickly. In addition, it likes to break into small groups to fight, and attacks the logistics forces of the Imperial Army very frequently, causing losses of personnel and materials.

In time, they will become more troublesome than the Four-Levels Group." When it comes to these two old enemies, Shan Shanyuan's mouth is already bitter.

The reason why he was forced to step down was that these two troops were the initiators. What's more important is that he, the commander of the front army who commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, had no choice but to do anything to them.

The Japanese Lieutenant General with a cruel face showed a hint of disdain on his lips! No wonder the military generals evaluated Shan Shanyuan as rude, and this statement was true at all.

An infantry regiment with only a few thousand troops and a small army that is not formally organized in China can be called the empire's major concerns, and his vision is just so big.

"Duotianjun, you have studied the war situation in China in the past two months and have done a chess performance at the Mainland University. Now you have heard your ex's views and suggestions on the war situation in China and North China. It's better to tell me your thoughts." After hearing this, the old man turned his eyes to the Japanese Lieutenant General who showed disdain.

Yes, Lieutenant General Duotianjun, the third commander of the Japanese North China Front Army during the War of Resistance Against Japan, finally made a "shining" debut.

However, what is slightly different from the time and space was that because the two exes were dismissed from get out of class early one after another, this unlucky child who should have taken over in September 1939 achieved the "great cause" of a general seven months ahead of schedule!

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If Miyasuhito Ichien had not come to stand him up personally, he, the lieutenant general, would have neither Shiro Itagaki or Saburo Miyamoto, who were sitting on the other side, look at him directly.

After all, one is a veteran lieutenant general who has long controlled the elite division, and the other is a Kwantung Army direct lineage who has never escaped from the North China Front Army. They have the qualifications and confidence to not take this deputy chief of the Army’s Chief of Staff seriously.

Both of them even realized that the appointment of a lieutenant general of the army to take over as commander of the North China Front Army by the base camp has begun to lay the groundwork for the establishment of the China Expeditionary Army Command. Otherwise, the commander of the lower-level combat unit would be an army general, so the commander of the dispatched army would not be a marshal?

Duo Tianjun, who was very talented, obviously did not realize the key to the problem. He was still completely immersed in the excitement of being about to sit on the throne of the commander of the North China Front Army. He stood up and walked to the hanging map of North China: "After studying the battlefield in North China for several months, before last year, the Chinese army often chose to hold on to the front-line confrontation until it was defeated. After the front line of the North China Front Army was lengthened, the logistics transportation line was also too long, which gave the small Chinese army hidden in the countryside the opportunity, which was what General Shanshanyuan said just now. The front-line logistics and supplies troops were frequently attacked, resulting in difficulties in obtaining materials on the front line and the morale of the army was floating. How could it not fail?

The areas controlled by the imperial army are mostly in cities and have almost no control over the vast countryside. This also gives the so-called fertile ground for the spread of the empire's great troubles. This is the main reason for the frequent failures of the North China Front Army. It is not how powerful the four-line team of only a few thousand people is, nor is it because of the extremely rapid expansion of the strength of the Eighty Army."

"Haha! Duotianjun, you have a good research. As your ex, I can't give you more guidance. I can only tell you an ancient Chinese story. There was a man named Zhao Kuo in ancient China who could study the battle situation and then die in the land where you stand very young." Shan Shanyuan responded with a sneer.

Duo Tianjun was just pointing at the monk and scolding the bald donkey, without any obstacles. Shan Shanyuan could swallow this? It was just a sarcasm for Zhao Kuo, who was talking about war on paper, because it was all for the sake of Gong Ren in Xianyuan.

"Am I a man who talks on paper? It doesn't take you to worry about Commander Shanshanyuan, but I already have a plan to defeat the enemy, which is what the Prince has agreed to." Duo Tianjun did not argue with Shanshanyuan in person.

The accusation he almost called was already venting the anger in his previous heart. If he continued to argue with him, it would arouse the common hatred between Itagaki Shiro and Miyamoto Saburo.

Except for the old man, no one knew how Duotianjun impressed him and decided to replace the commander of the North China Front Army in advance.

But Tang Dao knew!

The reason why Duotianjun, the notorious Class A war criminal, was able to rank alongside Gu Shoufu and others was not because he was so cruel on the battlefield, but because he proposed the famous "Three Lights Policy" during his tenure. In the vast rural areas of North China, the specific actions carried out by Japanese soldiers were to "kill them all", "burn them all" and "rob them all" to carry out cruel acts against civilians and non-armed personnel.

Duo Tianjun attempted to destroy rural personnel and materials to solve the continuous recruitment and frequent activities of the Eighty Army in the occupied areas from the source.

Historical data shows that between October and December 1940, when the Japanese army swept the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Area of ​​the 80th Army, it was this person who ordered: "This battle is completely different from the past, because it is to completely annihilate the Chinese army and its base areas. All people in the enemy area, regardless of men, women, age, and young, should be killed; all houses should be burned, and all food and fodder should be burned, all pots and bowls should be broken, and all wells should be buried or poisoned!"

It was also under this idea that Duotianjun's successor, Gangcun, ordered the execution of the "Jinmiao Battle" several times, and continued until the end of the entire war.

This undoubtedly animal tactic caused great losses to the military and civilians in the base area and also damaged the enthusiasm of the Japanese-occupied areas to resist the war.

Many villages that wanted to fight against the war were massacred.

However, life is like wild grass. The Chinese nation that survived the Five Barbarians Rebellion has tenacity that the Japanese could not imagine. They still live strongly on the land left by their ancestors.

Moreover, this era has little butterflies from the future. Although Duotianjun arrived early, that was also within his plan.

Because of the arrival of Miyasuhito, the Japanese North China Front Command completed the transfer of military power in just one morning.

Shiro Itagaki and Saburo Miyamoto also expressed their full support for Tatianjun, the new lieutenant general commander.

Xianyuan Gong Ren drew enough cakes for the two of them!

Of course, this cake is not painted on paper. Miyamoto Saburo only needs to hold on for another half a year. The position of the commander of the First Division is his. The Chinese Expeditionary Force Command is already under construction. Although the current education director, General Nishio Shuzao, has not been officially appointed, he has begun to lead the preparations for the headquarters. The candidate for chief of staff has basically been decided by Shiro Itagaki, and the rank of the general of the army is just around the corner.

How did the two who were comforted not obey? The two biggest obstacles for Duo Tianjun to serve as commander were removed.

After staying in Pingbei City for two more days, Gong Ren from Xianyuan met with several lieutenant generals of the A Division, paving all the way for his deputy. Then he flew back to the local area with the filthy Shanshanyuan.

This is the second general-level commander who was forced to resign in less than a year.

Replacing people is like changing knives. Japanese people understand this principle. What if they change to someone?

Sitting alone in the spacious and bright office of the commander of the North China Front Army, Duo Tianjun's mouth with drooping eyes raised his mouth, no longer suppressing his joy, and laughing loudly!

Although he had a mother-in-law, the Expeditionary Army Headquarters, he still became a commander in charge of the 300,000 army. Looking at the entire Imperial Army, how many people can achieve such an achievement?

However, Duo Tianjun, who is very ambitious and talented, still underestimates his opponent as before as in time and space.

In particular, there is also a Tang Dao who knows what he wants to do.

Do you want to create a no-man's land in North China? It depends on whether your teeth are hard enough!
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