Terauchi Juichi got out of a black Nissan car and stood on the steps in front of the Central China Headquarters building. He had already been waiting for him when the chief of staff, Major General Tsukada Kaoru, walked over quickly and opened the car door with one hand. The other hand covered the roof of the car, and soon, Juichi Terauchi stepped out of the car. ◎Literary Museum r />
After Terauchi got out of the car, he asked Tsukada: "Tsukada-san, is Kanji Ishihara still at the headquarters?"
Major General Tsukada hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, Your Excellency Ishihara Kanji has been in the small war room all day, and you haven't come out yet?"
Terauchi Touichi shook his head and sighed: "Well, this guy hasn't changed. He treats the war room as his home as soon as the war starts."
Terauchi Juichi, who was well aware of Ishihara Kanji's outstanding talent, went to great lengths to transfer Ishihara Kanji to the Central China Front Army, and then the Japanese Kwantung Army agreed to release him. Now Tsukada has said that Ishihara Kanji is in In the conference room, Juichi Terauchi knew that Ishihara Kanji must have stayed up all night studying the situation in Jiangxi.
Seeing the sighing look on Terauchi Shouichi's face, Tsukada Gong quickly said: "Your Excellency, Commander Ishihara is really overworked. This cannot continue. You still have to persuade him. How about I ask him first?" Come out for a moment?"
"Forget it, I'll go in and take a look myself."
Terauchi Juichi waved his hand and rejected Tsukada Gong's intention, and stepped in. Tsukada Gong behind him quickly followed. While he followed Terauchi Juichi's footsteps, he complained a little about Ishihara Wanji, as a division commander. , but he took up the job of chief of staff of the front army. Isn't this robbing his own job?
Terauchi Juichi walked to the door of the small war room. Tsukada Gong behind him was about to step forward to open the door first, but was stopped by Terauchi Juichi. Terauchi Juichi opened the door gently and saw Ishihara sitting in the middle of the room. smile.
This is a small house of only more than ten square meters. The decoration inside is also very simple. On the wall is a large military map. In the middle is a large sand table. Next to it is a tatami for people to rest, a table and a Apart from the cushions, there is nothing extra. The lights in the room are very bright. Ishihara Wanji is sitting next to the sand table. He looks at the sand table and murmurs to himself for a while, then stands up and walks to the wall to place a map on the wall. After gesticulating for a while, he looked completely obsessed. At this time, he had no idea who was coming next to him.
Tsukada Kaoru was about to step forward and call him, but was stopped by Terauchi Juichi. Terauchi walked to the tatami and sat down, quietly looking at Ishihara smiling as if there was no one around.
At this time, Ishihara Wanji stared at the map on the wall and murmured: "No, is the Chinese offensive just that simple? Suri sent an army to attack from Jiangxi. Their offensive should be more fierce. No matter how you look at it now, they have only used three-thirds of their strength, while the other two divisions are just following behind and standing still. Why are they doing this? Is he waiting for something?"
After that, he moved his eyes to the side again, and finally focused on Hubei. Suddenly he raised his voice and shouted loudly: "Oh. I understand, Hubei, why did I forget the fifth theater? I must have forgotten it." It’s the fifth theater of war!”
As soon as Ishihara Wanji finished speaking, Terauchi Juichi's voice sounded next to him, "Ishihara-kun, what's going on in Hubei? What does this have to do with the Fifth War Zone?"
It was only then that Ishihara Wanji realized that there were two more people in the small war room. He took a closer look. Regardless of the pleasantries, he quickly walked a few steps and said to Terauchi Juichi: "Your Excellency, Commander, I understand why the
The Seventh Army did not launch a large-scale attack after capturing Spider Ridge. It turned out that they were waiting for the opportunity!"
"When is the time?" Terauchi Shou couldn't help but feel nervous after hearing this and asked quickly.
"They are waiting for reinforcements." Ishihara Wan'er's expression changed a little. He ignored the rudeness and dragged Shouichi Terauchi to the map, pointed at it and said: "Commander, please look at the 92nd Division the day before yesterday.
Although they evacuated Spider Ridge at night, it stands to reason that the Seventh Army should have pressed forward with the entire army to pursue quickly, but they did not do so. They only sent one division to pursue leisurely behind the 92nd Division.
The other two divisions are completely missing, don’t you think this is strange?”
At this time, Tsukada on the side intervened: "What's so strange? Maybe these Chinese people are afraid of the empire launching a counterattack, so they keep those two divisions as reserves."
Ishihara Wanji glanced at Tsukada Gong with a contemptuous look, and said coldly: "Tsukada-kun, what you are saying may make sense when it comes to other local armies, but if you underestimate the Seventh Army so much,
That means you, the chief of staff, are somewhat incompetent."
"You..." Tsukada Gong's face suddenly turned red. This guy actually openly said that his chief of staff was incompetent. He was so arrogant. Tsukada Gong was about to refute Ishihara Wanji, but was stopped by Terauchi Juichi.
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I saw Terauchi Shouichi waving his hands and saying: "Okay, stop arguing! Ishihara-kun, keep talking!"
"Hai!" Ishihara Wanji nodded and continued: "Your Excellency, Commander, since the past few days, I have received several pieces of information forwarded from Wuhan. It says that the Fifth Theater has been acting abnormally recently.
Several troops mysteriously disappeared from their original stations. I didn't pay much attention to this information at first, thinking that they had been transferred somewhere. But it wasn't until just now that I suddenly remembered that these missing troops turned out to be
The main force of the Guangxi faction, this aroused my suspicion."
Hearing this, Tsukada Gong sneered and said: "Ishihara-kun, your imagination is too rich. You actually connected things that happened in Guangdong with things in Hubei. Isn't this amazing?"
Faced with Tsukada Gong's sarcasm, Ishihara Wanji just smiled coldly and did not respond. Instead, he looked at Juichi Terauchi and said solemnly: "I suspect that the three disappeared main forces of the Gui clan have secretly moved to Jiangxi.
Taihu and Yingshan counties are lurking, waiting for the opportunity to strike a fatal blow at us."
Terauchi Shouichi's expression changed a little. He frowned and said, "Ishihara-kun, is there any basis for your inference?"
"Of course!" Ishihara Wan'er said loudly: "Through these days of research, I discovered that Su Rui is actually from Guangxi. Although there is no evidence that he has joined the Guangxi clique represented by Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, these days
In 2000, his relationship with the Gui Clan was very close. As we all know, the Gui Clan was notoriously poor. Their soldiers fought barefoot even in winter, let alone their weapons.
But this situation has changed a lot in the past two years. I looked through the battle reports of the North China Front Army and the Eleventh Army, and found that the weapons of the Guangxi Army have been updated very fast in the past few years. In less than a year,
In half a time, their three armies have achieved all German mechanization. Whether it is rifles, machine guns, or even artillery, they have undergone earth-shaking changes. They even formed a heavy artillery regiment equipped with German-made 15
Zero-caliber heavy artillery, isn’t this worthy of our suspicion and vigilance? Where did these weapons come from? Who provided them with such a huge amount of weapons? It couldn’t be the National Government, right? Therefore, I thought about it,
There is only one source for their weapons, and that is provided by Suri's Seventh Army!"
Hearing this, Juichi Terauchi fell silent, and even Tsukada Gong was silent. Although Tsukada Gong was somewhat valued by Ishihara Wanji, he was not a fool. Ishihara Wanji's words made sense.
It would be impossible for the main force of the army to be able to change its equipment on such a large scale without the support of a powerful force behind it. Looking at China, the only one with such strength is Su Rui's Seventh Army. Although the National Government
Perhaps it is possible to do this with all the efforts of the whole country, but is this possible? Anyone who has a little understanding of China's current situation will have a negative attitude towards this.
After a long time in the temple, Shouichi said: "Ishihara-kun, what do you think we should do?"
Ishihara Wan'er lowered his head and thought for a long time before resolutely saying: "To increase troops, we have no other choice but to send more troops to Jiangxi!"
Shouichi in the temple asked quietly: "Then how many additional troops do you think is appropriate?"
Ishihara Wanji said categorically: "At least three main divisions are needed, preferably with a tank division and a heavy artillery brigade, otherwise there is no other way!"
"Nani? This is impossible!" There was an exclamation in the room. Tsukada was the first to shout: "Ishihara-kun, are you crazy? Do you think we are the Kwantung Army? Where did we get so many troops? Besides,
Does the empire now have a tank division? And where did you ask the commander to find a heavy artillery brigade for you?"
It's not unreasonable for Tsukada to be so excited. So far, there are only nine main divisions in Central China, and three are deployed in Jiangxi. If three more divisions are deployed, Central China will be empty.
. Moreover, Ishihara Kanji also requested to equip a tank division and a heavy artillery brigade, which is even more ridiculous.
In fact, until the Battle of Nomonhan, Japanese high-level officials did not have the concept of a tank division. In the view of the Japanese military, the absolute main force on the battlefield can only be infantry. Tanks are only an auxiliary unit of infantry and cannot be used as the main force.
To use. After the fiasco at Nomonhan and the glory of the German armored group sweeping across Poland, the Japanese high-level officials paid attention to this thing that they had ignored in the past. But catching up is not an easy task. The Japanese Army lacks more than just
It is a suitable tank, but more importantly, their concept has not yet been converted. Therefore, the current Japanese maximum organization of tanks is only in brigades, and the concept of tank divisions is still only in concept.