Chapter 1048: The Inside Story of the Foreign Appearance

Hearing these words, Chen Mingxiang knew that the dispatched army was going to launch a large-scale campaign against the Shancheng government, that is, the Battle of Wuling, why did he have to add a big word?

The strength of the 11th Army alone was not enough, and it was actually necessary to transfer a division from the 13th Army to strengthen its strength.

The reason for this is not difficult to guess, on the one hand, the Shancheng government has deployed heavy troops near Wuling, almost all of which are the regular descendants of the Shancheng government, and it is very difficult to achieve the goal.

On the other hand, the Japanese military department has dispatched a large number of troops to support the South Pacific theater, and its own troops are stretched.

"Because of this incident, Chief of General Staff Matsui Taikuro personally came to the headquarters of the 13th Army to explain that the 36th Division of the North China Front stationed in Changzhi would also be transferred to Southeast Asia, and the North China Front would have to transfer other troops to make up for this hole, and the General Headquarters of the Dispatch Army had no intention of favoring one over the other."

"Because of the mood of Lieutenant General Shimomura and the 13th Army, Commander-in-Chief Shunroku Hata did work to Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama, hoping that he could give up his previous proposal, but he was flatly refused, and was called by Isamu Yokoyama to look ahead and backwards, without the decisive courage of the commander-in-chief, the angry General Shunroku Hata scolded this guy at the General Headquarters."

"But the Eleventh Army is the main force of the offensive, since the Thirteenth Army can't be discussed, there is no way, General Toshiba Shunliu directly ordered not only to mobilize the 116th Division, but also to transfer half of the brigade from the 65th Division in Pengcheng, that is, three infantry brigades to join the command sequence of the Eleventh Army."

"After receiving this order, Lieutenant General Shimomura was very angry about this result, and slapped the table at the headquarters and scolded, this time not only scolded Yokoyama Isamu bastard, but even the general headquarters also scolded together, and he was not afraid that General Shun Hata would know."

"Now the relationship between the three parties is extremely tense, Lieutenant General Shimomura and His Royal Highness King Minoru Higashikuremiya, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Homeland Defense Force, are classmates, and they are not without support, so if they are anxious, they will not do anything, and the six generals of Toshihiko Hata can't do anything with him." Yoshitaro Kawamoto said.

King Minoruhiko Higashikuremiya was the uncle of Emperor Showa, and Emperor Showa's empress Empress Kasumi was his niece, and his son King Morihou married Prince Terumiya Narikonai, the eldest daughter of Emperor Showa, so that he and Showa became in-laws again, and the Japanese imperial family maintained the tradition of marriage between close relatives, a custom that did not change until after the defeat of the war.

That is to say, behind Lieutenant General Shimomura, there is also the support of the imperial family, which is almost the biggest guarantee in Japan.

"According to this statement, the General Headquarters of the Dispatch Army is a little unfair to our 13th Army, it is almost the end of the month, and the 116th Division has already left for the designated position, right?" Chen Mingxiang asked.

The headquarters of the gendarmerie stationed in Shanghai is hung under the headquarters of the 13th Army, and as a celebrity in the gendarmerie system, he naturally wants to focus on the 13th Army.

"My intelligence department has an intelligence group and a liaison group in the 116th Division, and the 68th Division has arrived in the area of Nanxian, and they will cross the southeast of Dongting Lake to Wuling to prevent reinforcements from the south, and the 116th Division will reach the area of Jinshi in the east of Li County and rush directly to Wuling."

"The 3rd Division went to Taoyuan in the southwest of Wuling, the 13th Division went to Huangshi in the northwest of Wuling to block the heavy army group of the Shancheng Government in the west, and the 39th Division was deployed between Yidu and Wufeng to ensure the safety of the rear."

"I have to say that although Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama is arrogant and arrogant, there is no flaw in the formulation of the plan, and although the army of the Yamashiro government knows about the transfer, it can't come up with any good way." Yoshitaro Kawamoto said.

Most of these are things that have already happened, and the intelligence agency of the Sixth Theater of the Yamashiro Government Army must know about it, but the specific direction of the operation is strictly military secrets.

But when it comes to the grievances between the commander of the 13th Army and the General Headquarters of the Dispatch Army, as well as the commander of the 11th Army, Yoshitaro Kawamoto said that he was a little too excited, and he didn't keep his mouth shut, and leaked the secret directly.

"You are really powerful, such a detailed battle plan is a highly military top secret of the Japanese army, according to normal speaking, only the commander-in-chief of the sending army, the headquarters of the eleventh army and the commanders of the subordinate divisions participating in the battle know that mastering the enemy's movements should be of great help to the sixth theater command of our Shancheng government, right?" Wang Zhen looked at the message to be sent and said.

"It can play some role, but it is not as big as you think, the movement of the Eleventh Army, the intelligence agency of the Sixth Theater must be closely monitoring, with the military quality of those generals, it is not difficult to judge the intentions of the Japanese army, more than 20,000 people in a division, this kind of large-scale transfer, can not hide from the eyes of intelligence officers."

"But they don't know the tasks and objectives of the Japanese divisions and regiments, and with the information I provide, they can be targeted, and deploy superior forces to intercept the Japanese divisions and regiments, so as not to be too passive, but if they want to fight a beautiful blocking battle, it may not be."

"The military command organization of the Yamashiro government often miscalculates in front of the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, and it is not once or twice that the fighter plane is missed, and with intelligence, it can make people eat a main division, and I don't have much confidence in them." Chen Mingxiang said with a sneer.

He has always been haunted by the annihilation of the 128th Division and the capture of the division commander, but this is to give information in advance, that group of bastards who eat people and don't do personnel, still make such a problem, the dignified main division, the surrendered troops were reorganized by the Wang puppet government into the 43rd Division of the puppet army, thinking of this, he began to get angry in his heart.

"You said that the Japanese army brought 20 tons of gold from China to purchase cotton yarn and cotton cloth in Shanghai, and it was in the form of compulsory purchase by the government, is this an intention to plunder the cotton cloth and cotton yarn in Shanghai and prevent the people in Shanghai from wearing clothes?" Wang Zhen asked.

"That's not it, it will also arouse public anger and affect the stability of the Shanghai market, this time the Consulate General in Shanghai led a large-scale purchase plan for cotton merchants, the purpose of which is to grasp the distribution of cotton cloth and cotton yarn resources."

"About half of the cotton yarn will be directly used by the Japanese army to produce military supplies, and the remaining 15 percent will be used in Shanghai and handed over to designated factories for cotton production, and the other 35 percent of cotton will be used to exchange materials with other regions."

"The problem of grain shortage in Shanghai, because of the grain smuggling incident in Jiangsu Province some time ago, has led to a sharp rise in rice prices, and the amount of rice in the household registration has been continuously reduced, which has reached the point where it must be solved."

"But now there is no rice source, and the Japanese army's own supply is in trouble, so the Executive Yuan of Wang's puppet government decided to exchange cotton cloth from Shanghai for beans and coarse grains outside the customs." Chen Mingxiang shook his head and said.