[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 786: Okamura Ninji (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Peiping. Bright Moon Villa.

While Chiang was discussing the question of whether or not to negotiate peace with the Japanese, at the Mingyue Villa on the outskirts of Peiping, Senior General Okamura Ninji, the new commander of the North China Front, convened his subordinates for the first meeting after taking office. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Mingyue Villa is a high-end guest house built in the eastern suburbs of Beiping after the Japanese army captured Beiping, whether it is the external structure and materials, or the interior decoration is luxurious, mainly used by the Japanese army to entertain senior officers and important guests of the front army, but now it has been turned into a temporary conference room by Okamura Ningji.

Mingyue Villa is a three-storey combination of Chinese and Western green glazed tile roofed buildings, sitting west and facing east. The middle of the main building is three floors, and the two sides are two stories high, and now the large conference room on the second floor of the main building will be star-studded, and all the senior officers of the North China Front at and above the division level have been summoned here.

The reason why Okamura Ninji gathered all the high-ranking officers together was that in addition to meeting with all the high-ranking officers of the North China Front, it was more important to have a good talk with these generals and officials, and to talk about why the strategic group of the Japanese Empire, which was second only to the Kwantung Army, had been defeated in many battles, not to mention the loss of troops, and the loss of cities and land, which had simply become a shame for the Imperial Army.

The atmosphere in the conference room was not very warm, although all the senior officers present knew the name of General Okamura, even those who had not seen it had heard of it, as the most famous senior officer in Japan, Okamura Ninji was indeed not in vain, but in view of the fiasco some time ago and the accountability of the front-line officers in the Japanese army base camp, this made everyone panic.

Seeing that the people were almost here, Okamura Ninji knocked lightly on the conference table, and then said, "Since all the gentlemen have arrived." So let's start the meeting now, and before I start, I would like to introduce myself, Okamura Ninji, Lieutenant General of the Imperial Japanese Army, was appointed commander of the North China Front Army in January 16 of Showa 16, and was fully responsible for the war on the North China side. ”

"Hay!" Everyone said in unison.

Okamura nodded with satisfaction and continued, "Before the meeting officially begins, I'll invite a mysterious guest in!" ”

After saying that, Okamura Ninji clapped his palms outside the door, and then the generals saw that the door of the conference room was opened from the outside, and then an officer wearing a general's uniform walked in from the outside, and when they saw the officer's face clearly, everyone was stunned.

"Kasawara-kun?"

"Your Excellency the Chief of Staff?"

"Wasn't he court-martialed, how could he be here!"

That's right, it was Major General Yukio Kasawara, the former chief of staff of the North China Front, who came in from the outside, and in the eyes of everyone, he should have been tried in a military court in Tokyo at this time.

Okamura Ninji motioned for everyone to be quiet first, and then said: "Kasawara-kun must be familiar to everyone, and his identity must be clear to everyone, now I will re-announce it, after the review of the base camp, it is believed that the defeat of the imperial army some time ago has no direct relationship with Kasahara-kun, so Kasawara-kun is acquitted and reinstated, everyone is welcome!" ”

"Bang Bang!" There was a round of applause in the conference room.

Yukio Kasahara nodded with the generals present, and then came to Okamura Ninji's head, and then sat down.

After Yukio Kasawara took his seat, Okamura Ninji said again: "This time I gathered all the gentlemen together, in addition to meeting with the gentlemen, and more importantly, I wanted to analyze with the gentlemen why the North China Front Army was repeatedly defeated by the Shina army, and even now lost about half of the occupied area, now let's talk about it." ”

"Iida-kun. You've been in North China for several years, what do you think? Okamura Ninji nam.

The commander of the Twelfth Army, Iida Sadagu, did not dare to slack off, and immediately stood up and replied: "Your Excellency, I humbly believe that there are internal and external reasons for the repeated defeat of the Imperial Japanese Army by the Chinese people. ”

"Oh, tell me, what is the internal cause and what is the external cause?" Okamura Ninji asked with interest.

"The internal reason is that the imperial army is expanding too fast, so the quality of soldiers has declined rapidly. I think that when the Chuchina Incident began, the troops sent by the empire to fight in China were not elite in a hundred battles, and any soldier was a veteran who had served for many years. Non-commissioned officers also accounted for a large proportion, so that the imperial army was able to win many victories in the battles against the Chinese people. ”

Then Iida Sadagu continued: "But now, due to the attrition of the war, a large number of veterans have died in battle, and the elite has been consumed. In addition, because of the need to expand the army, the veterans of most units have been constantly transferred, and the new recruits are some untrained recruits. Recruits may become veterans after one battle, but in fact many recruits simply can't survive the next war. Of course, the situation is the same for grassroots officers, a large number of experienced grassroots officers died in battle, which is also the reason for the decline in the combat effectiveness of the imperial army! ”

Seeing that Iida Sadagu stopped, Okamura Ninji asked with interest, "What is the external cause that Iida-kun said?" ”

"Your Excellency, Commander, I will talk about it later. In addition to the decline in the quality of soldiers, there is also a shortage of weapons and equipment and other combat materials. ”

"Due to the empire's successive wars, resulting in the deterioration of the domestic economy, the most direct manifestation is the reduction of the domestic imperial army and the reduction of technical troops, when the China Incident just happened, each division of the empire is under the jurisdiction of two infantry brigades, in addition to cavalry, artillery, engineers, charioteers and so on. Looking at the present, let's take the imperial army in the North China region as an example, the four-unit division is basically gone, and the rest are three-unit C-class divisions. ”

Speaking of this, Iida Sadagu suddenly got up, came to the window of the conference room, and pointed to the guards patrolling outside and said: "Speaking of weapons and equipment, the main forces of the empire are still using Meiji Type 38 rifles and Taisho 11 Type (crooked handle) machine guns, not to mention the Type 38 rifles, although the design accuracy is good, but because the caliber is too small, the lethality is very limited." ”

"In addition, the survivability and adaptability of the Taisho 11-year-style light machine gun battlefield are extremely poor, if it was barely used in the army three years ago, but now the weapons and equipment of the various units in China are developing rapidly, especially the main enemy of our North China Front Army, Ma Zhengsuo, their soldiers are now equipped with a light machine gun with extremely strong firepower in addition to the Imperial 38 rifle, and some troops have even reached one person, and the imperial army is changing from an advantage to a disadvantage in terms of weapons and equipment!"

Then Iida Sadagu said: "The important external reason why the imperial army in North China has been repeatedly hit is that the enemy is too strong, and the main enemy of the North China Front Army has four parts, the first part is the Suicha Military Region of China, the second part is the second theater of war in China, the third part is the first theater of war in China, and the last part is the other Tuba Road in China. ”

"Among these four parts of the enemy, the China Suicha Military Region is the strongest and the most difficult, as for Yan Xishan's Second Theater and Wei Lihuang's First Theater, although there are also a lot of troops, the threat to the Japanese Imperial Army is the least."

"According to the information obtained by the intelligence department of the imperial army, the development of the Suicha Military Region in recent years has far exceeded our imagination, and it is conservatively estimated that the strength of this Chinese army has reached at least 200,000. On the one hand, the number of troops is large, and more importantly, the weapons and equipment of this Chinese army are also very advanced! In addition, this unit itself is a battle sequence subordinate to the Dirt Eight Road, so it is extremely difficult to act, like a maggot attached to a bone. ”

"Maggots of tarsal bones?" Okamura Ningji was very surprised that Iida Sadagu commented on Ma Zheng's department and the Eighth Route Army, Iida Sadagu knew this person Okamura Ninji knew very well, he was a backbone member of the Erye Society, and he was very arrogant, but he didn't expect such a proud person to have such a high opinion of Tubalu.

"That's right, it's the maggot of the tarsus! Tu Balu is like those nasty insects, and from time to time they need to be treated with medicine, but as soon as the medicine is over, it grows rapidly. Although the imperial army encircled and suppressed it many times, the effect was very limited. So far, Tubalu has controlled a large part of the security area of the imperial army, like a sharp knife inserted into the heart of the imperial army, which is very dangerous. ”

Iida then concluded: "This shows how powerful the enemy is facing the front army, and although it is very reluctant to admit it, there are some things that are facts, and even if we are no longer willing to admit it, they still exist objectively. Under this situation, the strength of the Chinese people in the North China region has surpassed that of the imperial army, that is to say, the imperial army was not defeated because of improper command, but because of the gap in the actual combat effectiveness of the two sides. (To be continued.) )