For 16 days, he did not launch another large-scale attack.

The high-ranking people in the base camp are still arguing. The point of disagreement in the quarrel returned to whether or not to launch a general attack on the Vanguard.

"It's not the time to attack yet. The battle report from the front has been sent. We don't yet have a way to deal with the kind of vanguard cannon of the Vanguard. There is also no way to gain superiority in the air. Besides, it will take more time for local reinforcements to be mobilized to China. ”

"We have brigades of valiant soldiers......"

"Enough, our warriors didn't die in vain, do you think the flesh and blood of our soldiers can block the cannons and planes of the vanguard army?"

"Don't say anything, follow the original plan. The arrow is on the string and has to be sent. ”

At the same time, in the headquarters of the Huaxia Dispatch Army, Sugiyama Moto, Shunroku Hahata and others also quarreled for a day.

"We need to wait until the Kwantung Army comes together to cooperate with the attack, only our southern front offensive will not pose much of a threat to the vanguard army." Shunroku Hata was a little impatient. Central China sent troops to attack along the Yangtze River, conquering everything along the way, and won a lot of military exploits, but they had not really had a hard time with the vanguard army. Although he was also very careful about the combat effectiveness of the vanguard army, he did not care too much about it in general. When he talked about the Kwantung Army at this time, it was nothing more than a dissatisfaction.

Central China dispatched the army with the most military exploits and the most benefits, and the gold and silver treasures looted in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were pulled back by the whole ship. But it is also the most jealous of other forces in the country, and the balance of power in the country will naturally not let his family dominate, and under various restrictions, even the commander-in-chief of the Huaxia Dispatch Army is the airborne Sugiyama Yuan. You must know that the battle organized by Sugiyama Moto to attack the vanguard army was defeated, but it was all defeated by Terauchi Shouichi. The transactions behind it are all kinds of deals, but they suppress the Central China dispatch army.

"There is already an order in the base camp, and it is clear that the attack on the vanguard must begin. The people in the country are excited, and we need a victory! Sugiyama said with a straight face. In the establishment of the Huaxia Dispatch Army, the strength of the former North China Front Army was greatly reduced, and although the strength of the Central China Dispatch Army was weakened, it still became the strongest. This battle also needs to rely on their strength. Yesterday's battle, they just didn't go into battle on the periphery.

Shunroku Hata sneered in his heart, how could he not know Sugiyama Moto's plans. The vanguard army is definitely not a good fruit, the cost of victory will be very large, if it is defeated, I am afraid that Sugiyama Yuan can take the opportunity to control the Central China Dispatch Army.

Base camp? What is a base camp?

At this time, the most powerful forces in the army were the Minister of War, the Chief of Staff, and the Director of Training. And Sugiyama Gen came down from the Minister of War, and he could get more opportunities when he came to Huaxia. Will he care about those base camps?

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, even if it is said that I am no exception.

The marshal of this book can be in the army for life and enjoy the highest honors. They were all the product of factional disputes and compromises with the royal family. The officers who grew up during the Meiji Restoration were more influenced by the Western Meizhuo, and although there was an imperial family at the top, the officers of that era were more inclined to a constitutional monarchy. After the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, a group of generals who grew up came up with the title of marshal in order to check and balance the imperial family.

With the exception of a quarter of the marshals of the imperial family, almost every other marshal was a factional, and the war gave them the opportunity to become a real power figure similar to that of a warlord. The originator of the army faction was Aritomo Yamagu, a figure comparable to the emperor. One only needs to look at what happened to Emperor Taisho after the Meiji era, and you can see the strength of the factional system. Of Meiji's five sons, he was the only one who survived, and he was still a psychopath, how could there be so many coincidences in the world?

Even during the Hirohito period, from the death of Taisho in 26 to the 36th year, the faction was still in charge.

In 33, Muto Nobuyoshi died of illness three months after being conferred the title of marshal. In the same year, five people, Honjo, Abe, Mazaki, Araki, and Matsui, who were promoted to army generals, started a struggle for the leadership of the army. However, the 226 incident in 36 years hit the faction system very hard. The ruling faction within the army began to purge the factions that were affecting the stability of the army. Five people, including Honjo and Abe, were successively transferred to the reserve.

One era and one force, just like the post-70s, post-80s and post-90s generations in later generations, people born in each era are affected by the changes of an era and are branded with an era. After the Meiji Restoration, after the deification of the imperial family, the officers who grew up under its influence have slowly become the protagonists of the army.

The main force leading the new 918 War was these young Zhuang soldiers, and they were also the protagonists of overthrowing the factional system. Ishihara, Dofimoto, Yamashita, Okamura, Tojo, each of them is almost Hirohito's peers.

At this time, the generation that had been brainwashed by the emperor's deification had only become the main force in the army, and the factional system was gone.

There are more classic examples of this brainwashing generation to clean up dissidents, but the destructive power of the whole people is even greater.

The factions know what the tide is, and they can't make enemies of an entire new generation. And we can't leave the emperor behind and have a republican revolution. So, as soon as the war with Huaxia began, the staff officers at the adjutant level of those young Zhuang factions commanded the troops, while the senior army commanders fell asleep beside them. Those young Zhuang factions overstepped their authority and had no scruples, and repeatedly committed crimes, while those marshals and generals who were in high positions before the war basically stood aside during the war.

Taisho's death is unknown, but every royal family is definitely not a fool.

Paving the way for these young Zhuang factions, it is the Hirohito who often shouts innocent after the defeat of later generations, and there may even be a helping hand behind Taisho. Under the careful cultivation of this hard-working gardener who has endured for a long time, it finally bears fruit.

There were often such dramas in the Chinese court. The power struggle is inseparable from such a bridge, this is the surname.

And if you want to make these fruits stronger, fertilizer is war.

War is not only a plunder from the outside, but also a reshuffle from the inside. Those warlord hills, only in war have a good reason to mobilize them. In this war, there is also a shadow of cleaning up behind the successive changes of generals. Those who are hard in the background, even if they fail, can still keep a way to the sky again. Not only himself, but also in several wars in later generations of China, such traces are also obvious. There are talented people in the country, and a wave of death is a wave, the ancient mantra.

But at the same time, war is also the beginning of a country's internal turmoil, and it is not so easy to clean up, and if you are not careful, you will lose control and even lose the country. But under the immediate threat, who can take care of this. If Hirohito had thought about his own throne, his biggest opponent at that time was those factions.

Without his nod, those generals would not have come out in the war against China. Even Matsui Ishone, who retired after the 226 incident, was reinstated after the start of the war against China because he was an expert in attacking tough battles, which is related to the fact that he was an imperial faction.

Terauchi Shouichi, Sugiyama Moto, and Hata Shunroku also stepped onto the stage of the Chinese War with the help of the ruling faction, and later generations were also named marshals, and they were the last three marshals in World War II.

They are also intrigued with each other, and each has its own interests. Hirohito will never let them get together with the amiable and cultivate a friend in Yama Prefecture. Moreover, Hirohito's descendants are Ishihara, Dohimoto, Okamura, and Tojo. It is destined that the positions of Sugiyama Moto, Shunroku Hata and others will have one or two vacancies. The temple has a jar, and the dispatch of troops in Central China, which is full of money in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, is one of the small tricks.

It's not terrible to have soldiers and guns in the army, but if you have money again, you really become a warlord with a big tail. The warlords of China were all raised in this way.

In modern times, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions were the gathering place of Chinese wealth, and the wealth was rivaled by the country, and Lao Chiang's million-strong army relied on it. This time, he was desperately looted by the Central China Dispatch Army, and the wealth looted was amazingly huge, and even Hirohito did not dare to take it lightly. With money, his subordinates have benefited, and someone will come to sell their lives. This is a step in the history of the warlord's growth. Therefore, the leading brother of the Central China Dispatch Army and the internal army personnel have almost changed.

Even so, the Central China Dispatch Army is still under suppression.

Not only in Central China, but even in the history of the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army, it is easy for the wealth of China to raise a few warlords. But at this time and space, the North China Front was crippled by the vanguard army, so the spearhead was concentrated on the heads of the Central China and Kwantung armies.

Hirohito was also worried about the emergence of a new factional giant, and in addition to the balance within the army, he also pulled the navy over to balance the army, which was getting bigger and bigger in the war. During the Meiji period, the navy was often used as a means of balancing the army. In the Russo-Japanese War and the Sino-Japanese War, Ito Yuhiro and Heihachiro Togo were both made marshals on the naval side. Although the navy was the protagonist in these two wars, the army suffered many casualties, but the position of a marshal was not sealed.

Under the impetus of these emperors, the misalignment of the navy and the army reached a perverted point, the same weapons and equipment, but the manufacturers and specifications and models were absolutely different, and even the direction of the screws was reversed.

Although this balanced the army and consolidated the imperial power, it caused a huge waste and was a disaster for a country with few resources. In World War II, it was precisely because of the discord between the land and the sea that he lost a lot of opportunities.

However, these are all secondary to Hirohito. No matter how big the territory is, no matter how big the benefits are. But it's the same if it's not in your own hands. Vested interests care about the present, not the future.

This is also one of the reasons for many ridiculous historical allusions. Even if an ordinary person understands something, even a child understands, can those in power who are rational and have all kinds of opportunities not know? Without him, there is only the distribution of benefits.

Other countries also have such checks and balances, and the Germans' sea and air discord is also a kind of checks and balances of Hitler, and even the three armies of the Americans in later generations will not be able to coordinate well. An army that speaks with one voice is terrible, like the red army, and an army that is too divided and mountainous, like the Central Army, is also terrible.

If it weren't for the backbone of those clones in the vanguard army, the army might have collapsed first when it reached 100,000. Even with the Clones, 20,000 is still too little. Meng Xiang's introduction of the subsistence allowance policy came at the right time, which linked the common interests of the people and maintained the stability of the more than 500,000 troops that had been put together in more than a year. Otherwise, even with advanced weapons, it will not be possible to win the war.

But at this time, after relieving the worries, the advanced weapons of the vanguard army have become a headache for the devils.

"If it is an attack, how will the heavy artillery array and giant artillery of the vanguard army be solved?" Okamura Ninji said, sitting across from Shunroku Hata. As soon as Toshiroku Hata returned, Okamura Ninji came to ask to see him.

"The Imperial Navy has suffered heavy losses this time, and the 116th Division has also suffered huge damage, and the country is unstable!" Shunroku Hata was very polite to Okamura Ninji, but he didn't answer him directly. Do you still need to ask about this? He said that he didn't have bigger heavy artillery and giant cannons, so he could only use dead corpses. That casualty was too great, which was also a reason for the dispute between Shunroku Habata and Motomo Sugiyama. In this era, the more than 300 heavy artillery pieces alone were not easy to crack, and there were still 100,000 heavily armed vanguard troops on the southern front positions behind the heavy artillery.

At this time, the goal of my big victory has been reduced to a small victory. Even Shunroku Hata is cautious about the goal of winning.

"But what if the cost of victory for the vanguard is too great?" Okamura Ninji said bluntly. Shunroku Hata also saw that he had something to say, and he sat silently, and some words were not suitable for the people below, even Okamura Ninji.

"What the empire needs is the wealth and resources and land of China, which is very large and we need time. The vanguard army is suitable for slowly drawing! When Okamura Ningji said these words, he felt a little awkward, it was these young Zhuang factions who advocated swallowing Huaxia before, but after encountering the vanguard army, they began to use these words again.

"The people of the empire need a victory, and we will give them a victory first!" Okamura Ninji's eyes were glowing eagerly.

On the 17th, he said that his attack began again. Even the 8th Division of the Kwantung Army launched an offensive from the Chengde area. He said that his goal has been lowered again and again, and that a small victory in some areas at present can ease the domestic situation. The huge artillery and heavy artillery of Shanhaiguan, they don't want to touch it. Battles in the mountains near Chengde can always find some loopholes with the help of the terrain and open up a new pattern locally.

But they also ran into an impregnable wall, and it was not only the Great Wall that stopped them, but also the hundred or so heavy artillery pieces placed by the vanguard army. There are also hundreds of mountain guns and mortars in the back. The tactics used by the vanguard army are as simple as that, but I can only stare dryly, and there is no good way.

In this era, there are not many ways to restrain the king of war, heavy artillery.

Either with larger and farther artillery, the Pioneer Army's cannons, who suffered a big loss, are planning to build their own cannons, and plans for the construction of new train cannons are being studied. But at this time, he said that he had nothing.

Either bomb with planes, now the air supremacy is still in the hands of the vanguard army, and after more than 20 planes flying in the direction of Chengde were beaten down by more than 20 lightning planes that took off from Nanyuan Airport in Beiping, seven or eight planes retreated. The Kwantung Army did not have Zero fighters in their hands, so they could only watch the planes of the Vanguard Army fly in the sky. Not to mention the heavy artillery that bombed the Vanguard Army, even their own artillery positions were constantly bombed by the Vanguard Army aircraft.

Without the suppression of artillery, the artillery shells of the vanguard army were like no money, and the attacking devil army was often blown up by large and small shells, and it was impossible to organize a large-scale attack at all, and when the devils of the squad rushed to the edge of the Great Wall, it was the rain of machine gun bullets that knocked them down one by one. Although it was in the mountains, the terrain in various places was taken into account by the vanguard army, and there were almost no dead spots for shooting. However, the grenadiers he commonly used had already been beaten to pieces by the mortars of the vanguard army, and the artillery positions of the devils were even more broken into pieces under the double attack of the heavy artillery and aircraft of the vanguard army, and they hid, not daring to bombard them easily.

The positions of the vanguard army were endless, and it seemed that there were no holes in every place. As soon as the reconnaissance planes in the air detected the movements of the devils, they immediately came under artillery fire. When the artillery positions were penetrated, the machine guns were waiting again.

"Their artillery positions must be destroyed, or else they will ......" Looking at the soldiers who kept falling, Lieutenant General Tsukada, the commander of the 8th Division, couldn't help but feel distressed. He only began to serve as division commander of the 8th Division in December last year, and before that, in addition to being the president of the University of the Chinese Army, he had been the chief of staff of the Central China Dispatch Army, and was one of the decisive figures who advocated the expansion of the war against China. He was also one of the main culprits of the Nanjing Massacre.

At this time, in the face of the fierce firepower and pure strength of the vanguard training team, he didn't have much good way. The difficulty of digging fortifications in the winter can also be imagined, and those temporary trench fortifications dug out cannot be stopped at all under the bombardment of heavy artillery. He said that his traditional crowd-style charge did not benefit at all in the face of the vanguard army's absolute superiority in machine-gun firepower.

said that the little bit of fierce spirit that I am used to not fearing death sometimes overwhelms many people. But at this time, they are facing the clone army with more training teams, and the emotional disadvantage of the clones has become the best stabilizer for machine guns at this time. The machine gun muzzle of dozens of devils was torn apart in a row, and it wouldn't even shake in the hands of the clones. They were originally a kind of murderous machine that had been cultivated, and the argument that they were soft enough to kill people did not apply to their tightrope nerves.

Throughout the day, the footsteps of the army did not break through the blockade of the artillery and machine guns of the vanguard army. The last time I broke through the Great Wall, it was so simple, and before that, there was a record of 128 cavalry of the Eighth Division taking Chengde lightly. Even in the Battle of Nantianmen, the Eighth Division defeated 3 divisions of the Central Army, and at this time, there was only half of the vanguard army teaching team opposite them. Of course, in front of them, in addition to the ancient walls of the Great Wall, there was an additional metal barrage that seemed to be permanently solidified.

Even the Tsukada attack can't be fought anymore, and if it continues like this, I'm afraid that the Eighth Division will be wiped out, and it will be impossible to break through these places.

"It's only a night fight!" Tsukada couldn't help but say to himself. In the face of the firepower superiority of the vanguard army, there is no doubt that night will offset this gap. Long-range attacks become aimless in the night. Tsukada's tactics were indeed used properly, and before night vision devices and radar became widespread, night was the best time for the weak to defeat the strong. Although Tsukada refused to admit it, compared with the vanguard army, he was obviously a weak person at this time.

Speaking of myself, there are indeed a lot of tactical experts. But it is precisely the mastery of their tactics that leads to confusion with strategy, and they like to use tactical means to solve strategic problems at every turn. He said that the slogan of the decisive battle that he often put on his lips was that he hoped that a single battle would defeat the enemy, and the result was that whether the battles of Songhu, Xuzhou, and Wuhan were to China, or to Pearl Harbor and Midway to the United States, they all proved that their somewhat extreme approach was wrong.

Every country's strategy is based on its own realities, and its own shrewdness is no exception. It's just that Benben is a small country with a lack of resources, and his strategy is destined to have some limitations, and it is easy to bias towards the category of tactics. But at the same time, they are very proficient at the tactical level.

They also did a lot of research on night battles. It's just that the night battles that he came into contact with before were only attacked by guerrillas from all over the country, and at this time, they couldn't adapt to the sudden night battle of his army.

But small elite soldiers can still conduct special operations. It is also a good way to organize special operations teams to infiltrate the heavy artillery positions of the vanguard army to wreak havoc. Tsukada took this method at this time, and sent eight teams of 100 people to sabotage in one go. Once you have a successful path, you can open a gap in that place tomorrow.

"Here, there's a heavy artillery position of the vanguard there, and it's estimated that there are four or six 150-millimeter guns there. Each team selected their own goals according to the method of prior drills. Kawaguchi said in a low voice. At this time, the night provided them with good cover, they only needed to cover their lives, and they would slowly touch the heavy artillery position of the vanguard. Heavy artillery should not be moved, and the target that is difficult to observe during the day should not deviate too much.

After he finished speaking, he slowly climbed along a bush with four elite men. Their squadron had received similar training in the Kanto region, and had also cleared out several bandit guerrillas or something. This tactic is already familiar.

"Number 3, you go deal with that sentry over there." He commanded as he observed the movement of a nearby outpost in the faint light reflected by the snow. But there was no movement for a long time.

"Number Three!" He looked back impatiently, only to see a bloody mouth with wolf teeth and sharp teeth.