Volume 4 The Battle of Unification Chapter 661 Japan's Response
To put it bluntly, this ghost car corps is the Gyeonggi garrison force, protecting the security of the capital and the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang region, so this unit does not need to take the initiative to participate in the battle, it is a defense-focused force, and it cannot be compared with other battle-hardened troops. This army can be said to be a hundred refining troops, but it is not a division of a hundred battles.
The commander of the Ghost Car Legion is Gai Tianjiu, the chief of staff of the Ghost Car Legion is Han Linchun, the commander of the Eighth Division Wang Qiyuan, the commander of the 26th Division Wang Yaobin, and the commander of the 34th Division Shang Yuanqing.
The transfer of Yang Yuting from the Northwest Army indirectly cut off one of Zhang Zuolin's arms. And Yang Yuting's appointment as the military chief of the Gyeonggi Garrison Ghost Legion is enough to be worthy of Zhang Zuolin's psychological price, but Yang Yuting has been under Wang Maoru's nose since then, and he no longer dares to be careful.
There is a military general in the Hubei army who has to be mentioned, this person is Sun Chuanfang, the most courageous general under Wang Zhanyuan, the former Hubei overseer, who has become the first person under Wang Zhanyuan after defeating the Hunan army. It's just that it was very unfortunate that Wu Peifu lived in Lianghu and appointed Xiao Yaonan as the overseer of Hubei, and this gentleman could have been reused by Wu Peifu, and it was even more unfortunate that after he had just entered Wu Peifu's eyes, he directly accepted the reorganization of the National Defense Force.
This Sun Chuanfang is really ill-fated, compared to Sun Chuanfang's smooth sailing in history, Wang Maoru became the executioner who cut off Sun Chuanfang's promotion, and his promotion was delayed several times because of the National Defense Army. After the reorganization of the Wehrmacht, Sun Chuanfang has not been assigned a position, but most of his army has been merged into the 34th Division. Subsequently, Sun Chuanfang was appointed as the director of the Second Division of the Operations Division of the General Staff Department of the War Department. Wang Maoru arranged for Sun Chuanfang to observe near him, and he wanted to see what abilities and ambitions Sun Chuanfang, the most capable general in history, had.
However, Sun Chuanfang did not show rebellion and ambition by Wang Maoru's side, and planned for the national defense army wholeheartedly. In the process of exterminating the Zhejiang Army, he made great contributions and won Wang Maoru's trust.
Although three of the eight legions were placed in the northeast and the outer northeast in order to protect the old nest in the northeast, Wang Maoru was still relieved to enter a Suzaku regiment of the Fifth Army to defend the northeast, especially the five arsenals that supported the armament of the entire national defense force, which was really the top priority of the national defense force. Wang Maoru's worry was also won by Jiang Fangzhen and He Rufei. With the support of Mi Shaobo and others, after the establishment of the Ghost Car Regiment of the Beijing-Tianjin Tang Shu Guard, Jiang Fangzhen, Chief of the General Staff of the National Defense Forces, announced the establishment of the Ninth Army Corps.
The garrison of the Ninth Army Corps was Harbin City, Binjiang Prefecture, Jilin Province in Northeast China. The title is the Gouchen Legion. The so-called Hooker is one of the most ferocious of the Ancients, who likes to kill and be cruel. The attribute is the gold of the West. It is a fierce and fierce beast.
The Gouchen Corps was under the jurisdiction of the 11th Cavalry Division, the 15th Division, and the 35th Division, which was composed of soldiers from the three regiments of Qinglong, Tengsnake, and Suzaku. As a force to protect the most core area of the Northeast, the corps serves the purpose of strategic deterrence, and the corps is responsible for guarding the first arsenal in the northeast and the third arsenal in the northeast. The Fourth Arsenal in Northeast China, the Eastern Railway. Saltu Air Base, the responsibility is heavy. The commander of the legion, Wang Maoru, overrode public opinion and appointed Zhang Baowu, a young general known as the bloodthirsty demon king, as the chief of staff of the Gouchen Legion.
The new commander of the Gouchen Legion, Zhang Zhuwu, is Chinese New Year's Eve seven years old, he was originally a person who loves to kill and fight, his good war is not the same as Gong Xiaoqi's good war, Gong Xiaoqi regards combat as an achievement, an art, and Gong Xiaoqi also wrote a book "War and Art" in his later years, he is a perfectionist. However, Zhang Jianwu's good fighting is reflected in his desire to kill the enemy, and he seems to be eager to fight for the sake of killing. Stationed in Harbin, Zhang Jianwu did not have much happiness in his heart, his happiness was reflected on the battlefield, so Zhang Baowu immediately applied to Wang Maoru, hoping that he would go to the battlefield to wash himself away from being qualified to serve as the commander of the regiment. Indeed, in the National Defense Army, there are people with seniority older than Zhang Baowu, and Zhang Baowu is just a general, and it stands to reason that he can't be talked about as the commander of the corps, so Zhang Paiwu as the commander of the Gou Chen Corps has caused a lot of criticism in the army.
This name of Gou Chen is in line with Zhang Jianwu's character, cruel, killing, aggressive, and strong.
Wang Maoru knew too much what Zhang Jianwu thought, so he refused Zhang Baowu's request to go south, if the civil war was too heavy, it would leave a reputation for eternity in the future. The next thing to do is the war of unification, if Zhang Jianwu is put on the southern battlefield, this kid will not kill many compatriots. Civil wars are still dominated by peace, gradually disintegrating, and gradually realizing peaceful reunification, and fighting war is only a means, but not an end. If Zhang Paiwu is put in the south, then the war will be upgraded from a means to an end
Didn't let Wang Maoru's plan come to naught? Everyone has their own characteristics, Zhang Jianwu is a person who loves to kill, and usually adds chaos, but in the war, this Zhang Jianwu's Gou Chen Legion is a big killer.
In addition to the nine corps, there are also some divisions and regiments of the Wehrmacht that are not under the command of the corps, but are directly under the command and management of the General Headquarters of the Wehrmacht, including the Fei Chaogui Division of the Sixth Division currently stationed in Changchun, the Zheng Shiqi Division of the 22nd Division stationed in Jinan, Shandong, the Zhu Xi Division of the 24th Division stationed in Nanjing, the Wu Guangxin Division of the 25th Division stationed in Yueyang, Hunan, the Sun Liechen Division of the 29th Division stationed in Baoding, Zhili, and Chen Guangyuan of the 31st Division stationed in Jiangxi and Fujian, plus nine corps. It is expected that the total strength of the Defence Force will reach 600,000 after the downsizing. At present, the total strength of the Wehrmacht is as high as 800,000 troops, and many miscellaneous militias are waiting to be settled, and some of the overstaffed soldiers will be resettled.
Wang Maoru and the General Staff of the Wehrmacht planned to downsize the army in three years, and after three years, it would reach 15,000 to 18,000 men per division and regiment. The personnel of the old units should be streamlined, and all the newly reorganized units should be 118,000 divisions and regiments as the standard, so that they can be reorganized into army divisions in the future.
At this stage, more than half of the Wehrmacht troops are stationed in the northern frontier, and Wang Maoru does not use many troops internally, which has a great deal to do with his warnings to later generations. The only enemy that poses a threat to China is the enemy from the north, and the only one who invades from the north. Japan's "Tanaka Soga" clearly states that if you want to conquer Asia, you must first conquer China, and if you want to conquer China, you must first conquer Manchuria (Northeast China). Therefore, maintaining stability in the north, especially in the northeast, is the top priority of the country.
The importance of the northeast does not mean that the south can be abandoned, but because there are many plains in the north and mountains in the south, many places in the south are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the north is easy to attack and difficult to defend, so Wang Maoru has no choice but to distribute heavy troops in the north.
The total number of Japanese troops at this time was only 300,000, and many army soldiers were secretly sent to Australia because of their support for the Australian struggle. At that time, the actual total number of Japanese troops was only 220,000, and it was necessary to garrison the colonies and prevent the domestic workers from awakening to strike and lead the coup d'état.
The streamlining and reorganization of the squadron and the reorganization of the intelligence channel, which the Wehrmacht hated all kinds of channels, continued to spread to the Army Intelligence Department and the Navy Intelligence Department at the base camp in Tokyo, Japan, and Japan was very vigilant and worried about the changes that were taking place in China. Japan does not want China to be reunified the most, and it also desperately wants China to be divided, and they have even worked out the plan to divide China into seven countries according to the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, and if they can't, the Japanese Government will take matters into its own hands, and they do not mind the "First Sino-Japanese War" happening again. But the problem is that Japan is now mired in the Anglo-Japanese conflict and the Australian mining dispute, and it is neither left nor stayed. It is easy to say that it is easy to get out of the way, but the Japanese government has invested almost one-third of its finances in the competition for Australia's resources, and the navy and army, which have always looked at each other unpleasantly, are uncharacteristically standing together at this time, advocating that the British should be taught a lesson and not be soft on the British. And the pride of the British Empire would not allow it to bow to the yellow race, so the two sides were at a stalemate in Australia.
The Japanese government, especially the civilian government of Hara, was secretly vigilant about the rise of China, and they sent a large number of personnel to China to analyze the changes in the situation in China, but the people they sent seemed to have been followed, and even some of the hidden strongholds many years ago were dug up by the Chinese, and the Japanese government became more vigilant.
The Japanese Navy is dismissive of China's development, and the glory of the world's third naval empire makes the Japanese Navy blindly optimistic, and they focus on maritime power, and avoid conflicts on land, so as not to give the army a chance to develop a strong force. The Japanese Army was more worried than the Navy, after all, there were 17 divisions scattered in various colonies, and four of them were unwilling to engage the Chinese Defense Forces.
In order to interfere with China's reunification, Japan at this time re-wished to deploy a pro-Japanese warlord force to counter Wang Maoru's Wehrmacht. The Japanese government first found Duan Qirui, the boss of the Anhui system, hoping that Duan Qirui would re-emerge from the mountains and seize power, and it was best to let the Anhui system rise. Mobilize the entire Anhui warlord army against the Central Defense Force. Duan Qirui couldn't see the Japanese ghost eyes clearly, and asked someone to report the Japanese conspiracy to Wang Maoru while playing haha.
Duan Qirui is still unambiguous in the general righteousness of the nation, and now the Anhui system has disappeared, and after the reorganization of the army, the local nature of all the armies has been abolished and unified into the national defense force. If Duan Qirui starts a war now, wouldn't he be a national sinner? He's just lost his ambition, but he's not old yet. (To be continued.) )