Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadamichi insisted that Tongliao had been completely lost and the 14th Division had been completely wiped out. The Seventh Division was inexplicably annihilated. Whether the Kwantung Army encircled and annihilated the enemy on the Linxi battlefield or dealt with the enemy on the Tongliao battlefield, the opportunity had already been missed.

The Seventh Division was inexplicably completely defeated in a short period of time, and most of the troops resisted the encirclement and annihilation of the United Nations, and the Tongliao Battlefield and the Linxi Battlefield were actually connected into a line. Under these circumstances, if the Kwantung Army was to maintain its original plan, it would have to increase the strength of at least two more divisions. But this amount is difficult for the Kwantung Army to bear at present.

At the same time, the headquarters of the Sixth Army was successfully attacked by the enemy, and the first army headquarters in the history of the Japanese Army to be encircled and annihilated appeared. For the Kwantung Army, since the current fighter has been missed, judging from the reaction ability and speed of the face-to-face opponent, it will no longer be able to recover.

What is even more shameful is that at present, with the headquarters of the Sixth Army being attacked by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Whether Lieutenant General Toshio Tani is dead or alive, there will be the first commander in the history of the Japanese Army to be captured or killed in battle. Although this news has been kept secret by the officers below the rank of Linxi Battlefield, it has undoubtedly affected morale considerably.

At present, the commanders of the two divisions on the Linxi battlefield have all telegraphed and offered to retreat. It was the first time in the history of the Kwantung Army, and indeed of the entire Japanese Army, that the commanders of the two main divisions of the front mainly demanded a retreat. As for the behavior of the two division commanders, Yoshimoto Sadachi is still clear.

He knew very well that these two were quite capable people, and they were not the kind of people who were greedy for life and afraid of death. To make these two unprecedented requests to retreat, I am afraid that the shape of the Linxi battlefield is definitely not as optimistic as everyone here imagined. To say that the crisis is not so severe for the time being, but to say that optimism is far from catching up.

At the same time, Yoshimoto Sadami believes that the series of actions taken by the Anti-Japanese Federation at present are obviously aimed at the Tongliao battlefield. The sudden westward retreat of the enemy troops on the eastern part of Shuangliao and the Lishu line showed that the enemy had seen through the real purpose of the Kwantung Army to Tongliao and was ready to continue to throw troops into the Tongliao battlefield.

Because by now, the true purpose of the Anti-Union initiative to launch an offensive has been exposed. The Kwantung Army has already grasped the true intentions of the Anti-Japanese Federation at present, and clearly knows that in order to ensure that their strategic goals are achieved, whether it is Tongliao or Linxi, it is absolutely impossible to lose them. They are bound to increase their strength in the two battlefields at any cost.

In this case, if the Kwantung Army continues to attack, even if it can defeat the opponent itself, it will suffer heavy losses. What's more, the current Kwantung Army no longer has enough troops, and it will be adjusted with the changes in the shape of the battlefield. The hundreds of tanks on the battlefields of Tongliao and Linxi, as well as the air force that could be increased at any time, also hung over his heart like a dark cloud.

Yan Zòng lacked effective anti-tank weapons, and the latest Type 97 tank he was equipped with was no match for the improved anti-Union Soviet tank. The loss of air supremacy caused the air force of the Anti-United Nations to pose a huge threat to the ground forces of the Kwantung Army, as well as brought heavy casualties.

The number of new fighters is too small, the old ones are simply no match and lack ground anti-aircraft firepower. The Kwantung Army was almost helpless in the face of the air superiority of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. At present, in addition to artillery, the Kwantung Army can barely keep up with the Anti-United Nations, and in terms of heavy equipment, the Kwantung Army is no longer the opponent of the Anti-United Nations.

In the face of the resistance to the United Nations, which is equipped with hundreds of tanks and a large number of aircraft, heavy artillery and other heavy weapons, the current Kwantung Army wants to eat them, and the price to pay will be huge. And once this happens, the impact on the southward strategy that the empire has decided on is quite far-reaching.

Of course, the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, who also had a new heavy responsibility on his shoulders, also put forward a reason for terminating the war in terms of material supplies. The Kwantung Army has just set up a supply supervisor responsible for the strategic supply of the entire Kwantung Army, and this supply supervisor is the same chief of staff Yoshimoto Sadachi, which can be described as a heavy responsibility.

It's just that this Chief of Staff Yoshimoto, who is in a hurry with the war situation at the moment, doesn't have the energy to care about the establishment of a supply prison at all. The task of forming a supply prison was completely abandoned to Takada Kiyohide, chief of staff of the supply prison, who had just arrived from Japan and had a black eye on the entire Manchuria. Chief of Staff Sadaichi Yoshimoto, he doesn't have time to worry about this matter now.

But for Yoshimoto Sadachi, although he is in charge, he still has a considerable understanding of the current material reserves of the Kwantung Army as the chief of staff. The shortage of heavy artillery ammunition and fuel has greatly reduced the already unbalanced fire support of the Kwantung Army on the battlefield.

In particular, the number of shells for the 155 howitzer, which is the backbone of heavy artillery fire support, has been insufficient. And the original reserve of mountain artillery shells, because of the large number of southward transfers before the war, the inventory has been unable to support for too long. And the replenishment of oil was constantly declining throughout the battle.

In the main combat area of this battle, Ximan, because of the lack of railway lines. The Kwantung Army, in this battle, relied more than ever on the replenishment of roads and cards. In particular, the Linxi Theater was lost in Kulun and Tongliao, and after the Dazheng Railway was cut off, the nearest railway line was also more than 500 kilometers away.

At present, the two divisions on the battlefield in Linxi, all the material replenishment can only rely on the road from Chifeng to Linxi. In the amount of trucks and gasoline, both strict zhòng can not meet the needs. and the continuous air strikes of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the number of supplies arriving at the front line is declining every day.

The impact of the Americans' sanctions on the current Japanese army has been fully revealed. In particular, the impact of the oil embargo on the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army has already begun to be produced. With most of the existing oil stocks allocated to the Navy and the Southern Army, and some of the reserves still to be left, the Kwantung Army was able to get less and less share, and it was simply unable to sustain operations for a long time.

And not to mention the current shortage of fuel supplies, even if there is a sufficient Kwantung Army, there is also a lack of a sufficient number of trucks. At present, all the trucks of the Kwantung Army are less than 2,000 together. But this is less than 2,000 trucks, and it is impossible to transfer all of them to the Linxi battlefield under the condition that they have to be used in other directions.

Even if the Kwantung Army transferred all of them, the Kwantung Army would not have enough fuel for them. Of the more than 700 trucks now deployed on the battlefield in West Manchuria, a considerable part of them were lost in the air raids of the Anti-United Nations. At present, the daily supplies of the Linxi battlefield are less than half of what is needed. Sometimes, even this criterion cannot be met.

At present, the two divisions on the Linxi battlefield, after the original supplies have been consumed, are simply unable to raise them on the spot because the population density is too small. Some first-line teams have already begun to kill horses or reduce supply. Strict restrictions on the use of ammunition were also made.

Even some combat squadrons of the 13th Division can only guarantee a meal. It was stipulated that no more than thirty rounds of ammunition per infantry per day should be consumed, and no more than five shells per artillery per day should be consumed by artillerymen. The anti-coalition firepower on the opposite side is still extremely vigorous. Ten shells were fired, and the two divisions on the Linxi battlefield were combined, and it was quite reluctant to be able to return fire with five rounds.

And with the loss of the Weng Niute Left Banner, now all the material replenishment can only be transferred through Guò Chifeng. This made it even more difficult for the already overburdened supply lines to afford the supply of two divisions. Under such circumstances, barely maintaining the operation is already extremely disadvantageous.

The most critical thing is that after the 7th Division was defeated on the battlefield of Alukorqin Banner, the two divisions on the battlefield of Linxi and Bahrain Right Banner have lost the cover of their flanks. The loss of the Weng Niute Left Banner made the two divisions of the entire Linxi battlefield already in a state of semi-surroundment.

If the two divisions of the Anti-Japanese Union lurking in the shadows together, take advantage of this opportunity to seize the mountainous area north of Chifeng. Either cooperate with the so-called advance army of its operation, attack and advance to the east to destroy the Ye-Chi Railway, or take advantage of the superiority in strength to seize Chifeng, then these two divisions are in danger of being completely encircled.

Even if the Kwantung Army can defeat the anti-Japanese alliance in Tongliao at that time, but the two divisions on the Linxi battlefield are surrounded and annihilated, this exchange is impossible for the Kwantung Army to accept. What's more, now that the fighters have missed, the Kwantung Army now has no chance to encircle and annihilate the anti-union in Tongliao.

It was precisely in consideration of the situation of the entire battlefield in front of him that Yoshimoto Sadachi decided that it was necessary to stop fighting immediately. At the same time, the existing forces will be strengthened to strengthen the defense of the first line of Chifeng, Jianping, Beipiao, Kangping, Changtu, and Lishu. In order to stop the resistance to continue southward, and at the same time to ensure the security of the empire's most important industrial, energy and special mineral bases in Manchuria, Jinzhou and Mukden.

As long as the southward operation of the base camp is completed, or the general mobilization of the mainland is completed, a large number of troops can be transferred to supplement the Kwantung Army. When the time comes, the empire, which has solved the source of oil and some urgently needed mineral resources, will also crush the resistance to the pressure of the United Nations with its strong national strength.

For the current Kwantung Army, as long as they hold the Rehe River to block the passage of the convergence of the Anti-Japanese Union and its troops in the Guannai, and block their passage into Mukden, they can also be trapped. As long as they were not allowed to enter Mukden, they occupied Ximan, but because they dispersed their troops and materials to the greatest extent, it was more beneficial to the Kwantung Army.

Yoshimoto Sadaichi believes that it is difficult to support the long-term operation of the Anti-United Nations Corps on the basis of the Western Manchurians, and if the Anti-Japanese Federation wants to control the Western Manchurians for a long time, then they can only rely on the necessary food, fuel, and other survival materials from their so-called old base areas, not to mention ammunition and weapons and equipment.

The Kwantung Army, which lacked a sufficient number of trucks, did not have a strong strategic supply capability. However, in the western Manchurian region, where there were no railways, the Anti-Japanese Union needed a large number of trucks to transport them by road if they wanted to replenish supplies. In wartime, at the cost of a single qiē, it can barely be maintained. However, long-term supplementation is also a heavy burden for the Anti-United Nations.

Although the Anti-Union can use the Sitao Railway and the Taoang Railway to transfer materials to the Tongliao line. But the rest of the road, still needs to be transported. The area of West Manchuria was so vast that even the Kwantung Army could hardly afford the attrition of long-term transportation, and the number of garrisons in West Manchuria before the war was quite limited. So how can the foundation of the Anti-Alliance, which is far inferior to the Kwantung Army, be able to withstand it?

With the technical ability of the Anti-Union, I am afraid that there is no ability to lay railways at all. Even if you want to switch to rail transportation, you can't do it. With such a vast area as Ximan, they may have to continue to use expensive trucks for transportation. The Kwantung Army is now short of gasoline, but it can only rely on imported oil to fight the Anti-Union and has sufficient fuel?

The Soviets are now unable to afford to supply them with gasoline, and as for the Americans, their hands are still a little too long. What about a large number of high-performance American trucks? Isn't it a decoration without oil? Now that the Anti-Japanese Union has occupied Ximan, it is better to leave it to them.