Chapter 289: The Order of the Japanese Army's Base Camp (Second Update)

On September 28, Ma Zheng led the First Guard Brigade and the Special Operations Brigade to the front line, accompanied by a large number of senior officials from both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, including Deputy Chief of Staff Zuo, Yang Aiyuan, Chu Chunxi, and others.

However, at the same time as Ma Zheng and others were moving, a conspiracy meeting of the Zhangjiakou Garrison Mongolian Army Headquarters on targeting Ma Zheng's headquarters was also underway, and the meeting was not presided over by the commander of the Mongolian Army, Hou Gong Chun, but the commander of the North China Front, General Terauchi Shouichi.

The reason why Terauchi was able to meddle in the affairs of the garrison in Mongolia in the name of the commander of the North China Front Army was mainly due to the latest military adjustment of the base camp, and after the study and decision of the base camp, the garrison was placed under the command of the North China Front Army, and at the same time, the puppet regimes of all sizes in North China were also adjusted.

In fact, the Japanese army base camp had long had the intention of adjusting the troops on the Chinese battlefield and the puppet regime, and after the Japanese army occupied Beiping, the Japanese army instructed traitors to organize a temporary pseudo-organization of the "Pingjin Federation for the Maintenance of Public Security". Then, after identifying and weighing some traitors, General Xi Duo, the head of the Japanese Army's secret service, instructed these traitors at the end of the same year and last year to set up a puppet "Provisional Government of the Republic of China" in Beiping, with Tang Erhe as the chairman of the Legislative Council, Wang Kemin as the chairman of the Executive Committee, and Dong Kang as the chairman of the Judicial Committee. In addition, the Japanese army also set up puppet regimes in Shandong, Hebei and other places to assist the Japanese army in the occupation of North China.

The Kwantung Army in northern China, after occupying Zhangjiakou, also established a puppet "Chanan Autonomous Government" with traitors Du Yunyu and Yu Pinqing as supreme members and jurisdiction over the ten counties of Chanan. After the occupation of Datong, a puppet "Jinbei Autonomous Government" was established with the traitor Xia Gong as the supreme member and governed 13 counties north of the Great Wall in Shanxi.

After occupying the eastern part of Suiyuan, the enemy Kwantung Army instructed the Mongolian traitors to convene the second meeting of Mongolian representatives in Guisui and expanded the puppet "Joint Committee of the Mongolian Xinjiang Government," which was relatively small in the area under its jurisdiction, into a puppet "Mongolian Union Autonomous Government." King Yun is the chairman, King De is the vice chairman, and Li Shouxin is the commander-in-chief of the Mongolian army. It has jurisdiction over 39 banners in 21 counties of Chahar League, Xilin Gol League, Ulanqab League, Bayannur League and Yikezhao League, and has two special cities of Guisui and Baotou.

However, the Japanese army headquarters was dissatisfied with the Kwantung Army's practice of dispersing and establishing political power in the newly occupied areas of southern Chanan, northern Shanxi, and Inner Mongolia, and pointed out on several occasions that it demanded corrections, and the "North China Front" also had views on this, but the Kwantung Army commander Kenkichi Ueda and chief of staff Hideki Tojo did not pay any attention to them. In desperation, the base camp of the Japanese army adopted the method of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle. On December 27, 1937, he ordered the formation of the headquarters of the Mongolian Corps under the direct jurisdiction of the base camp, and appointed the commander of the former cavalry group, Lieutenant General Liannuma.

It can be said that the establishment of the garrison in Mongolia was the result of a game between the Japanese base camp and the Kwantung Army group, and in fact the base camp was very dissatisfied with the Kwantung Army's practice of supporting troops and respecting itself, and even launching a full-scale war of aggression against China under such a hasty situation was an internal initiative of the Kwantung Army, and according to the meaning of the base camp, it would take at least three to five years to prepare.

It is precisely because of this contradiction and the fact that the performance of the garrison in Mongolia after its establishment is really depressing, so the base camp recently decided to transfer the garrison to the "North China Front" of General Terauchi Shouichi, and this meeting was the first large-scale meeting after the battle sequence of the garrison in Mongolia was assigned to the North China Front.

There were quite a few people attending this military meeting. In addition to General Toshiichi Terauchi, commander of the Front Army, there were also the new Chief of Staff, Major General Yamashita Fumi, Deputy Chief of Staff, Major General Muto Akira, Commander of the Mongolian Army, Lieutenant General Jun Harem, the new director of the Special Service Department of the North China Front Army, Major General Aiko Sato, commander of the 16th Division, and Lieutenant General Norihide Abe, commander of the 26th Division.

There will be a star-studded meeting room in the conference room, and the only adjutants are a limited number of people, including the chief of staff of the Mongolian army, Shigeji Daisa, and the captain of the military police of the Mongolian army, Muto Seiichisa, and if it were not for their special status, they would not have been qualified to participate in this meeting.

The first to speak was General Terauchi Shouichi, who said in a deep voice: "Gentlemen, the base camp is very dissatisfied with the situation of the new regime in our North China region, and orders our army to rectify within a time limit. At present, the front army has decided to merge the "Chanan Autonomous Government," the "Northern Jin Autonomous Government," and the "Mongolian Union Autonomous Government," which were originally subordinate to the Mongolian Army, to form a puppet "Mongolian United Autonomous Government," with King De as its chairman. Do you have any opinions? ”

Although the voice of General Shouichi Terauchi was not high, and he was relatively old, no one in the entire conference room did not hear it.

Lieutenant General Hou Gong Chun, commander of the army stationed in Mongolia, immediately said: "We naturally have no opinion on the orders of the front army headquarters and His Excellency the commander, and I would like to ask Your Excellency the Commander to take care of it in the future!" ”

Shouichi Terauchi was very satisfied, nodded and said, "Yo Xi, the harem-kun is polite!" ”

Harem Jun just said a word. But the level is not low, it looks like a simple sentence, but it contains multiple meanings. It shows that the troops stationed in Mongolia not only carried out the orders of the front army headquarters to the letter, but more importantly, obeyed the orders of Terauchi Shouichi.

Terauchi Shouichi is also an understanding person, and he heard it at once. Immediately said: "In addition, yesterday's detailed battle report on the Wuhan Raid has arrived, a few days ago the Mongolian army against the assassination of Ma Zheng, the general of the Eighth Route of China, I already know, according to the information I received, Ma Zheng was not injured, but his wife was admitted to the hospital, very good!" ”

Speaking of this, before Harem Jun and the others could be happy, Terauchi Shouichi's voice changed: "However, as far as I know, most of the army forces that cooperated with the operation of the special task force moved slowly, and not only did they not break through the defense of the Shina people, but they suffered a lot of losses. I would like to know what happened to the great Japanese Imperial Army suffering heavy losses at the hands of the same Chinese people, whether it was the independent decline of our Great Japanese Imperial Army or the increase in the combat effectiveness of the Chinese people? ”

"Your Excellency the Commander"

Harem Chun was about to say something, but was stopped by Terauchi Shouichi raising his hand one by one, and then Terauchi Shouichi said in a deep voice: "Harem-kun, don't say anything, it doesn't make any sense to say that." Now the base camp has ordered our troops to solve the threat of Ma Zheng's headquarters within a time limit, so you should think about how to act. ”

"Your Excellency, Commander, I believe that solving Ma Zheng's department is not an overnight matter, and it is not possible to achieve it quickly. Ma Zheng's unit developed into the size of the Japanese army under the nose of the Imperial Japanese Army, which shows that this person really has real talent and learning, so he thinks that to deal with such an enemy, we should adopt the strategy of boiling frogs in slow fire and warm water, and gradually encroach on them, rather than solve them within a time limit. Lieutenant General Nakajima said in a deep voice.

General Terauchi Shouichi is the son of Marshal Terauchi Masatsuki, a standard ******, and has a very hard relationship in the Japanese army, and before that, he had received news that the base camp intended to let Nakajima Imago be the commander of the Fourth Army, so Terauchi Shouichi was still very face-saving for Nakajima.

After thinking about it, he said: "Nakajima-kun is reasonable, and Nakajima-kun and I have the same idea. However, the base camp has ascertained that it was the Ma Zheng Division of the Central China Front that caused the heavy losses of the 11th Army, and the Navy has also confirmed that it was the Eighth Army that caused the destruction of the 11th Fleet by a sneak attack on the Third Fleet, so it ordered our department to solve the Ma Zheng Division within a time limit. ”

Major General Yamashita Fengfumi, chief of staff of the North China Front, immediately interjected: "Your Excellency, commander, there is a saying in China, killing 10,000 enemies will lose 8,000. The reason why the base camp wants the front army to solve the threat of Ma Zheng's headquarters within a time limit and recapture Jining and Guisui must be because it thinks that the current elite troops of Ma Zheng's department have suffered heavy losses in the Wuhan area, and now should be the weakest time, so the base camp will order our department to solve this trouble within a time limit. ”

"Yo Xi, Yamashita-kun's judgment is very reasonable, what do you think?" General Shouichi Terauchi asked again.

"Your Excellency, it seems a bit hasty to think that the base camp thinks like this, you must know that this Ma Zheng is very good at hiding his strength. Judging from the experience of fighting with them, although Ma Zheng's troops went south to participate in the Wuhan Raid, the combat effectiveness of his troops was not reduced, but on the contrary, it was enhanced. Lieutenant General Harem Jun stood up and said. (To be continued.) )

PS: PS: The second shift is delivered, and the third shift is delivered before 8 o'clock in the evening!