"First of all!" Zhang Chi explained: "This Japanese Third Front Army is not a regular army......

As he spoke, Zhang Chi handed over a document and said, "According to the information we have obtained, the Third Front Army of the Japanese Army has always thought that its task was to maintain law and order in Manchuria. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The source of the info army is that the Japanese army summoned the young people of the Japanese cantonment households in the Manchurian area to form a division, and all the soldiers are not very good at weapons and combat training, so this front army has the nickname of 'weak troops' in the Japanese army! ”

The term "reclaimed households" here refers to the Japanese government's plan to emigrate one million agricultural households to Manchuria.

The plan aims to resettle 1 million households and 5 million people in 20 years. It was stipulated that from the September 18 Incident in 1931, the number of immigrants from Japan to Manchuria increased in stages, with 100,000 households in the first phase, 200,000 households in the second phase, 300,000 households in the third phase, and 400,000 households in the fourth phase......

Although it has only been 12 years now, it was supposed to be completed only two phases, but the third phase is underway, but in fact, the plan has been exceeded and the fourth phase has been completed, and the number of Japanese people who have emigrated to Northeast China has exceeded 800,000 households and about 4 million people.

This is due to the fact that Japanese immigrants have supra-national treatment and lucrative benefits in Northeast China...... Japanese immigrants in Northeast China could buy the land of Chinese people at a very low price, and then sublease the land to Chinese peasants for cultivation, in effect becoming landlords.

When the Japanese peasants arrived in China and became landlords, why not? As a result, the Japanese moved from Japan to Northeast China one after another, fearing that they would not be able to "acquire" more land if they were backward.

This is what Japan calls a "pioneer group"

This plan can be said to be a countermeasure of the Japanese army to solve the problem of military rations, and it can also be said to be a means for the Japanese army to completely dominate China and oppress the Chinese.

Therefore, before launching the war of aggression against China, the Japanese must have made a detailed understanding of Chinese history and made full preparations, because this plan was actually the "tuntian system" that China had practiced since the Han Dynasty.

The Japanese army, the Third Front, was recruited from these 4 million immigrants.

Listening to Zhang Chi's explanation, Halsey nodded: "This may be the reason why this Third Front Army was not sent to the battlefield and continued to stay in the Northeast!" However, their strength is more than 300,000 people, and there will always be some troops with outstanding combat effectiveness, not to mention that they still have fortifications to defend, has the colonel taken these factors into account? ”

"Of course!" Zhang Chi replied: "For example, the 39th Division is an elite unit left by the Japanese...... Or it can also be said to be the sample unit of the Third Front Army! ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but pause, he was no stranger to the 39th division of the Japanese army, this division was not composed of Japanese immigrants, it was formed by Hiroshima...... The reason why Zhang Chi is more familiar with it is because this division is the Japanese division that killed the famous anti-Japanese general Zhang Zizhong on the battlefield of Xiangyang a few years ago.

Historically, the fate of this division was also quite miserable, after they were defeated and captured by the Soviet army, most of them were sent to Siberia to do hard labor.

Zhang Chi came back to his senses and continued: "The problem of the Japanese is ...... They must defend more than 1 million square kilometers of puppet Manchukuo with more than 300,000 troops. At the same time, the Chinese people in Northeast China often caused some trouble for the Japanese, so in order to be able to fully control Northeast China, the Japanese assigned troops to every township or even every village......

As he spoke, Zhang Chi flipped through the documents, took out one of them and handed it to Halsey, and then continued: "As mentioned above, the Japanese army in many places has only one squad or even a few people, and they control the puppet army by these few people, which is the 'Manchukuo Army', and then controls the Chinese people. This control method is obviously very fragile, and more importantly, it has caused the Japanese forces to be very scattered, and it is easy for us to break them individually! ”

Halsey looked at the document and nodded in agreement.

Then Halsey asked, "So...... Colonel, what are you worried about? ”

Zhang Chi shook his head and said with a wry smile: "If our problem is just to enter the Northeast, then the problem will be simple." I believe that the Japanese Third Front will not be able to stop the offensive of our army at all. But there is a saying that 'it is easier to storm a city than to defend it'...... How to keep it is the difficulty! ”

"Yours is right!" Halsey looked at the map and said: "Northeast China is the logistics center of the Japanese, the Japanese steel, coal mines and even arsenals are in the northeast, where almost all the weapons and equipment of their troops fighting in China are produced, as well as bullets and shells...... In fact, before you can take them down, the Japanese will send troops to surround you! ”

"That's what I'm worried about!" Zhang Chi nodded: "And the Japanese can transfer troops back to the northeast in at least a few directions, one is the Chinese direction, where there are 500,000 troops attacking the Chinese troops, and a large number of elite Kwantung Army as reserves, and the other direction...... It was Korea, where the Japanese Seventeenth Front was stationed. And North Korea ...... Because it has been under Japanese rule long enough that the Japanese army can even conscript troops from Korea to form troops, that is...... The Korean side has sufficient capacity to send troops to the northeast and form a two-sided attack on us from the Japanese forces in the Chinese direction. Other words...... We simply have no defensive depth to speak of, and we have to fight on both sides at the same time! ”

"Is there a way to fix it?" Halsey asked.

Zhang Chi just smiled and replied, "We have to push the plan back, I need time to prepare!" ”

What Zhang Chi didn't know was that while Zhang Chi and Halsey were discussing the battle situation, other people were also paying attention to this information. They were Roosevelt and MacArthur.

"General MacArthur!" Roosevelt asked MacArthur, "Do you think the Chinese can win?" ”

MacArthur was a very experienced army general, so Roosevelt felt the need to listen to MacArthur.

Roosevelt was a smart man, he didn't go all the way to the dark, he was thinking in his head...... If the Chinese can't do it, then they have to think about making contact with the Soviets again.

MacArthur flipped through the papers with his pipe in his mouth, shook his head from time to time, and replied, "That's all I can say, Mr. President...... If Chinese can do it, and if it can achieve the strategic goals we expect, then ...... They should be the invincible troops in this world! ”

(To be continued.) )