"Your Excellency, Your Excellency General Shun Hata, gentlemen, the base camp sent me to serve as the commander of the Eleventh Army, I am sincerely afraid and feel pressure, but Okamura is a soldier, and a soldier is to obey orders as his duty, since the empire has given Okamura such a heavy burden, Okamura can only carry it on his shoulders, as for whether he can bear it, he still needs your help, please!"

At a secret military meeting convened by Shunroku Hatata, Okamura Ninji first put his posture very low. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

He knew that Shunroku Hata and some of the generals were very dissatisfied with the appointment of him as commander of the 11th Army at the base camp.

Especially the division commanders who are doing it, they all come to him with hostility, and this is a person who competes with them for war merits.

Okamura's case, once Wuhan is captured, the credit will not belong entirely to the people who are doing it, but to this little man who looks a little like a serious tuberculosis.

Okamura Ninji is indeed very thin, and he looks similar to the image of the original commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, Matsui Ishine.

And they are indeed all the way.

Matsui Ishine was almost pushed out to be the scapegoat to appease the anger of the public, and the decision made by the Imperial Council was not to admit the mistake, but to carry it to the end.

The price to pay for admitting mistakes is too great, at least the generals on stage will never admit that they gave the order for "massacre".

This is despite the fact that they have been massacring civilians and prisoners of war under various pretexts.

If it is seriously investigated, I am afraid that there is not a single Japanese commander who does not have the blood of the Chinese civilian people on his hands.

Let them reflect on their own mistakes and pay the price for their future and even their lives, I am afraid that no one can do it.

What's more, they didn't think they had done anything wrong in the first place.

"Okamura-kun is polite, since the base camp has asked you to preside over the plan to attack the Battle of Wuhan, we will definitely cooperate with you to complete this great strategic plan." Although Shunroku Hata was unhappy, Okamura was the one assigned by the base camp, and the emperor was the approved candidate.

Even if they oppose it, it has become a fact, not to mention that in the general strategic direction of occupying China, everyone's goal is the same.

However, Shunroku Hata did not quite agree with launching an attack on Wuhan now, believing that the Japanese troops in China urgently needed to rest before they could fight again.

Moreover, there are too many factors to consider when attacking the hinterland of the Central Plains, not only the battle front, but also the complex terrain, material delivery, weather, and international reactions.

In particular, the reserve of strategic materials, how many troops, how much ammunition, fuel, aircraft, and so on are needed to capture Wuhan.

According to the current way of fighting, if a Jinpu route is opened, the 100,000 elites of the Japanese army will be lost, and won't it cost more casualties and losses to fight Wuhan?

This is because Shunroku Hata and others, after counting the actual situation after the war, felt that if they continued to fight, I am afraid that the economy of Japan and Japan would not be able to withstand it.

In fact, it is not only Shunroku Hata who thinks so, but also those high-level people in the national government, politicians and economists who are speculating that although Japan is an industrial power, it is also a small country with small resources and resources, and the current world economy is in a recession, and once the import of raw materials is cut off, the economy of Japan and Japan will easily collapse.

Even if he now occupies a lot of parts of China, it will take time to obtain resources from the occupied areas, and various mineral deposits must be turned into materials that can be used for war purposes through various methods.

In particular, grain and cotton have a growth cycle, and they cannot transform their strength without a certain amount of time.

Therefore, Shunroku Hata did not show much enthusiasm for an immediate attack on Wuhan.

However, the strategy formulated by the base camp was to conquer China as quickly as possible, and the fastest way to conquer China was to capture Wuhan, the military command center that commanded China's War of Resistance against the People's Republic of China, to defeat the Chiang regime, or to force the Wuhan government to surrender by force.

The Japanese Empire still has a bigger enemy waiting for him, and he can't afford to invest too much time and energy in a country as weak as China.

The conquest of China was only the first step in the Japanese Empire's quest for world domination.

"Thank you!"

"Gentlemen, the original plan of the base camp was to capture Xinyang, Henan Province from Lu'an, Anhui Province, all the way to Wusheng Pass, and one way to Huangchuan, Macheng, and Huang'an from the south of the mall, this way needs to be confronted with the troops of Cheng Songyun in the first theater of the Chinese army, and there are troops of Li Delin in the fifth theater who retreated to northern Anhui on the back, and we will suffer the enemy on our backs, and in this area, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army is not weak, so we will spend a lot of troops, this road cannot be used as the main offensive route, but it can be used as a containment of the Chinese army." Shozaburo Kawabe, chief of staff of the Central China Dispatch Army, stood up, walked to the front of the huge map, picked up a wooden stick and pointed at it and explained.

Shunroku Hata frowned slightly, he is 59 years old this year, the two broom eyebrows have almost never been together, the heavenly court looks a little empty, drooping tear sacs and vaguely counted hair, and those big ears, the appearance looks a little strange.

He didn't speak, and Okamura Ninji listened too much.

"The General Staff Headquarters has reformulated a plan, the main attack force will attack along the northern foot of the Dabie Mountain, and the auxiliary troops will attack along the Yangtze River, this plan, for our army, the drawbacks are also obvious, that is, logistics supply difficulties, in the battle of Xuzhou, our supply line has been cut off many times, which has a great impact on front-line operations, it can be said that the logistics problem seriously restricts the combat effectiveness of our troops."

In fact, everyone knows that this plan is not advisable either.

"We believe that if we want to capture Wuhan, we can only attack along both sides of the Yangtze River, divided into three routes, the first way to attack along the north bank, first to capture Anqing, the capital of Anhui, and then to occupy it as a forward base, and then occupy the Madang fortress to take Hankou, and the second way, to make a great detour along the south bank, land from Jiujiang, through the Nanxun Railway, land and water to occupy Nanchang, and cut off the Guangdong-Hankou Railway, outflanking the Chinese army in the Wuhan area......"

"I plan to take TW's Botian Brigade as the main force, accompanied by the 3rd ship of the Navy and the 11th Fleet, to capture Anqing, and after the capture of Anqing, I will wait for the opportunity to launch an attack on Madang Fortress, and finally capture Hankou." Shunroku Hata said slowly, "I have already reported this plan to the Tokyo base camp, and the base camp has agreed. ”

"The intelligence department of the base camp has received information from Soviet Russia, which is not ready to start a war with the Empire, at least not this summer."

"In other words, if we don't act now, if we miss the time, it is very likely that Soviet Russia will attack us in Manchuria?"

"It's possible." Takeo Imai, who was in charge of intelligence, nodded.

"Okamura-kun, your Eleventh Army is the main force responsible for this attack on Wuhan, what do you think about this?" Shunroku Hata asked.

"Your Excellency, Honorable Commander." Okamura stood up and bowed to Shunroku Hata, and then to everyone else, and then said, "We are here to discuss the strategy of attacking Wuhan, can we take into account the defensive strategy that the Chinese army may take?" ”

"What does Okamura-kun mean by the intelligence of the Chinese Army?"

"Intelligence is only one aspect, I mean the opponent!" Okamura Ninji said solemnly.

"Opponent, Gangmura-kun, we don't quite understand what you mean." Shozaburo Kawabe glanced at Shosashi in the room and asked incomprehensibly.

"As far as I know, the troops stationed in the Nanxun Railway and the northern Jiangxi area are the first corps that has just been established by the Chinese army, and its commander is Xue Boling, who defeated our elite 14th Division and the 6th Division Niudao Brigade in Guide, known as 'Xue Laohu'." Okamura Ninji said, "This person is not like ordinary generals, calm, resolute, and resolute, he is a rare opponent, if you want to capture Wuhan, you must first solve this obstacle." ”

"What Gangmura-kun said makes sense."

"Xue Boling caused a great defeat to our army in the Battle of Guide, so the trust of Chiang in Wuhan was deep, and this time Chiang ordered him to garrison northern Jiangxi, which is enough to show that they have made meticulous arrangements and predictions of our possible offensive line, which is a tough battle."

"What does Okamura-kun mean is that there is a disagreement with this offensive plan drawn up by the General Staff Headquarters?"

"No, the line and plan of the offensive are right, but what I want to say is that before launching this plan, we must be fully prepared, and we must consider an uncertain factor, which may be the key to the success or failure of our attack on Wuhan." Okamura said heavily.

"Okamura-kun, please speak!"

"The new army of Leng Guoguang in northern Henan."

"Northern Henan, although the new army is known as China's J elite, except for the raid on Yanzhou and Jining, it performed well in several battles, there is no need to worry at all!" Lieutenant General Yoshio Iwamatsu, commander of the 15th Division, smiled contemptuously.

"Yan Songjun is wrong, in the battle of Taierzhuang, which unit did the most damage to my Isogu Division?"

"It seems to be a unit called the New 38th Brigade?"

"This new 38th Brigade belongs to the same unit as the Honor 1st Division, the predecessor of the New First Army, and before coming to Nanjing, I read all the battle reports and telegrams about the Battle of Taierzhuang, and found a startling fact, that is, our defeat was expected for a long time."

"Gangmura-kun, are you alarmist?"

"That's right, you're trying to kill your own prestige!"

"Okamura, this is your so-called opponent, it's a joke!"

……

Some Japanese generals suddenly became emotional, and constantly ridiculed Okamura Ningji, and even ridiculed Okamura Ningji for being as cowardly as a mouse, how could the base camp send such a timid person to serve as the commander of the 11th Army?

Okamura Ninji's face flushed, he didn't expect that he would be resisted by so many people, obviously the base camp sent him, how much was dissatisfied with him.

"Silence, listen to Okamura-kun finish speaking."

The noisy venue fell silent.

"Okamura-kun, please continue." Chief of Staff Shozaburo Kawabe said.

"Thank you."

"Have you ever thought about it, if the new army goes south along the Pinghan line, it can go directly to Hankou, even if our army occupies Hankou, it will inevitably consume a lot of combat power, if some enemies come down at this time, how can we resist?"

"With the support of the Navy, you can't defeat a Chinese J?"

"In Nanjing, we don't have naval support, if it weren't for the withdrawal of the Honor First Division, would we be able to easily occupy the Jiangbei position?"

Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba, commander of the 6th Division, was speechless when asked.

"I think that in order to capture Wuhan, the biggest problem must be solved first and foremost, the new First Army and the Eighth Army, these two elite Chinese J are now stationed in northern Henan and the other in eastern Henan, if these two forces cannot be eliminated, at least they must be contained and cannot go south, so, before this, I did some things." Okamura Ninji Road.