For Umezu Mijiro and the Kwantung Army and Japan behind him, although the industrial areas of Mukden, Anshan, Fushun, Liaoyang, and Benxi suffered heavy losses in this raid by the Anti-Union. However, the enemy did not do much damage to the plant, which could not be dismantled in a short time. Although a large number of parts were disassembled, the main body of the equipment was not damaged.

As long as these equipment can find some parts, there is no hope of repair, and there is no hope of recovery for the factory. Of course, these factories are densely packed with landmines, and they need to be cleared first. Otherwise, you won't even be able to repair the equipment.

And for Japan, the importance of South Manchurian to its overall strategy is not just about restoring these factories. Japan has a large number of other factories in Jinzhou, Liaodong Peninsula, Huludao and other places in South Manchuria. In Luda alone, there are dozens of large military factories, as well as the most important naval base in China. Throughout South Manchuria, there were also large deposits of rare metals that were urgently needed by the empire.

Molybdenum from Yangjia's stick, zinc from Huludao, magnesium from Dashiqiao, coal from Fuxin and Beipiao, lead and zinc from Qingchengzi, and copper ore from Qingyuan Hongtoushan were all urgently needed resources for Japan to carry out the war. Without these resources, the Japanese tank was missing two wheels. If South Manchuria is completely lost, the empire's own national strength alone will not be enough to sustain this war for a long time.

At the same time, South Manchuria could not hold it, and North China and North Korea were also difficult to hold. Manchuria was a bridgehead for the empire to attack the interior of China, but it could also be a bridgehead for enemy forces to attack Korea and threaten the mainland. In Umezu Yoshijiro's view, the question now is not to recapture the front line of Shinjing, but whether he can hold Siping and keep the rear of the South Manchurian empire in this war.

However, considering the overall situation of the entire battlefield, in order to reduce the pressure in the direction of Siping. Although Umezu Yoshijiro was in the vicinity of Siping and Mukden, relying on the terrain of rivers and hills, he continued to adopt a policy of large-depth defense. With Xifeng and Quantou as the key areas of defense on the two flanks of Siping, Siping, the strategic town of the entire northern front of the Kwantung Army, was firmly protected.

In Liaodong, it has relied on the hilly area of Liaodong to stick to the line, and firmly guarded the line from Xifeng to Caoshi, with Xinbin and Qingyuan as strategic support points. To prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the mountainous areas of eastern Liaodong, there is another large-scale in-depth penetration. In the case of Siping's frontal stalemate, the tactics of outflanking the entire Siping to the Fengtian battlefield were outflanked.

The last strategic attempt of the enemy army was the industrial base of South Manchuria. In terms of tactics, it adopted the method of quick battle and quick solution, and immediately retreated after taking a handful, instead of adopting a large depth and detour interspersed with long-term stubbornness to hold Mukden. But in Umezu's view, with the first time, there may be a second time.

The first sneak attack was successful, and the enemy who tasted the sweetness did not taste it. If you find a way to concentrate your forces, your flank is making a bold surprise attack. This time, there is no need to outflank Fengtian, and directly through the mountainous area of Liaodong, it will be directly inserted into the front line of Tieling and Kaiyuan, behind the Siping battlefield.

If the enemy army comes to such a hand once the frontal battle in Siping is tight, it will not be a quick victory. Once such a situation appears, the retreat routes of all divisions and regiments participating in the battle on the Siping front line will be cut off. Unless reinforcements are received in a short period of time, the main force of the Kwantung Army on the Siping Line will be surrounded. Coupled with the large number of armored clusters thrown in by the enemy, the entire Siping front was in danger of complete collapse.

Although Umezu Mijiro judged that the strength of the Anti-Japanese Federation had been used to the extreme, he still did not dare to take it lightly because of his taboos. Therefore, he did not hesitate to shrink his forces on the Siping front, withdrawing the defensive focus of the eastern front to Xifeng, and the defensive focus of the western front to the southwest of Siping City, so as to draw troops to strengthen the defense in the eastern Liaodong direction.

In Umezu Mijiro's view, although this move is suspected of making amends, it is necessary. Because his opponent is too cunning. At the beginning, when the battle on the Siping battlefield was strong, no one thought that they would draw a considerable part of their troops and attack themselves through the mountainous areas of eastern Liaodong. In Umezu Mijiro's opinion, it is not terrible to fall once in a pit, but it is the most terrible to fall in a row.

In fact, Umezu Mijiro's worry is purely superfluous, and the ultimate purpose of Yang Zhen in the Northeast Battlefield in this battle is to make the Kwantung Army hurt his muscles and bones. In terms of the overall strategy of the Japanese army, it was already in a situation where the battle line was stretched from all sides and was too long, and the offensive capability of the Kwantung Army was completely defeated.

He clearly knew that he had not eaten the stomach of the main force of the Kwantung Army in one bite, let alone completely recovered the entire Northeast. First, the Anti-Japanese Federation does not have that strength now, nor does it have enough troops to recover the entire South Manchuria. Under the circumstance that two theaters of war were fought at the same time, a Siping battlefield contained the main forces of the Anti-Japanese Federation in the northeast battlefield.

And the battle was fought so long, although the Kwantung Army suffered heavy losses, but the casualties of the Anti-Japanese Union were definitely not light. Although it is much less than that of the Kwantung Army, the follow-up forces have been exhausted, and the Anti-Union has absolutely no strength to invest new forces and continue to fight a continuous battle with the Japanese army.

In fact, in the northeastern battlefield, although the Anti-Japanese Federation still relies on the mobility and surprise nature of a large number of armored units, it has always held the initiative on the battlefield. However, due to the heavy casualties, it has lost most of its sustained offensive capabilities. At least there is no ability to divide the forces to open up a new battlefield.

Even if he is alone in the Northeast Battlefield, he doesn't have that ability. The offensive being launched now is nothing more than a coordinated diversion offensive. If a new round of large-scale offensive is really launched, even if we try to find a way to collect all the soldiers, the current anti-coalition forces are really running out of oil.

As the territory controlled by the Kwantung Army shrank, its room for maneuver on the battlefield also greatly shrank. However, the density of troop and firepower deployment has also increased sharply with the contraction of the defensive front. In this campaign, the density of the Japanese army's strength and firepower deployment on the Northeast Battlefield far exceeded that of previous battles.

It is not only the setbacks again and again, but the Japanese base camp from top to bottom against the Chinese army, which has sprung up as a foreign army, is already impressive. Moreover, the Kwantung Army, which had lost most of the northeast in successive battles and lost most of the northeast, had been forced into a corner. Compared with North Manchuria, which mainly produced timber and served as a base for operations against the Soviet Union, South Manchuria was the real foundation of the Kwantung Army.

Moreover, the industry of South Manchuria and the mineral resources that are far more developed than those of North Manchuria are an important capital for the Japanese army to dare to start a world war. Without South Manchuria, the Japanese army's war resources would have been reduced by at least one-third. If Manchuria is the confidence of the Japanese to start the war, then South Manchuria is the confidence of the Japanese.

The change in the situation made the Japanese army base camp attach great importance to the South Manchurian anomaly. Even in the case of launching the Pacific War, instead of weakening the jurisdiction, only the original Kwantung Army in Liaoning remained, but to a certain extent, it was relatively strengthened.

As a result, in this battle, the density of the Japanese army's deployment from Xinjing to the Siping Line was much greater than that of previous operations. There is almost no large-scale interspersing of the anti-United Nations, leaving any gaps that can be exploited. Although the Anti-Japanese Federation repeatedly tried to mobilize the strength of the Japanese defense by adjusting the strategic deployment during the initiation stage of this battle.

However, it has never been able to open the gap between the various divisions of the Japanese army on the front line and create a fighter plane that can be used for its own offensive. Whether it was the previous interspersed encirclement south of Xinjing, or the flank detour of the Siping line, it failed to achieve the desired effect in the first time.

In the emergence of this situation, it cannot but be said that the Japanese front-line generals were still quite sophisticated in the use of troops, and their response was also extremely rapid. And Yang Zhen saw not only the judgment and ability of the Japanese commanders on the battlefield. What can be seen more clearly is that in this battle, compared with the previous battle, although the company suffered heavy losses, at least the quality and combat capability of the Kwantung Army soldiers did not decline significantly.

Not only has the extremely tenacious will to fight not significantly declined, but neither the technical and tactical level nor the military quality of commanders at all levels has declined much. The importance of the Japanese army base camp to the Kwantung Army is still quite high. On top of the replenishment of troops, there has not been any downward adjustment.

And the emergence of this situation is also the main reason why Yang Zhen fought very decently in the Northeast Battlefield in this battle, and rarely made surprise troops. Because for an army like the Japanese army, under such a large density of troop deployment, whether it is a roundabout outflanking or large-scale intersperse, the surprise troops can only be separated by the Japanese army's overall deployment.

In particular, at present, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army has not declined significantly, and the basic vitality is still there, and the surprise army can only be a rather dangerous strategic adventure. This kind of adventure may not bring much loss to the Japanese army, but once it fails, it will bring irreparable losses to the Anti-Japanese Union. No matter how risky it is, it can only be said that the gains outweigh the losses.

The fact that this battle was fought so hard cannot but be said to have a great deal to do with the excessive concentration of the Kwantung Army's forces on the entire battlefield. In terms of the overall strength of the two sides, the Anti-United Nations does not occupy an absolute advantage. In this offensive operation, the reality of the inability to completely defeat the Kwantung Army was doomed as early as the beginning of the campaign.

Yang Zhen saw this very clearly. Not to mention that the Anti-Japanese Federation is currently in the point of fighting on two fronts, that is, it has not opened up the battlefield on the western front, and there is no current bitter battle in northern Shanxi. The Anti-Japanese Federation does not have so much strength, and completely won the entire Northeast in one fell swoop. Even at the risk of completely breaking your muscles and bones, you don't have the strength to decide the outcome in one game.

The most important thing is that when Yang Zhen raided Fengtian before, he had considered taking a large depth and detour to intersperse, and after seizing Fengtian, he forcibly went north and penetrated directly behind the Japanese army on the first line of Siping. and the surrounding troops of Siping to form an encirclement of the main force of the Kwantung Army in the Siping area. Even if you can eat the main force of the entire Kwantung Army in one bite, you must give it enough heavy damage.

But after careful analysis and hesitation, Yang Zhen finally gave up this idea. Yang Zhen knew very well that if he had a quick victory in this battle and aimed at the South Manchurian industry, the Japanese army base camp or the Korean army would not necessarily intervene. After all, for the Japanese army, whose hands are stretched too long at the moment, the strength of the troops, especially the elite soldiers, is also intended to be used to the limit.

However, if once the war drags on, the Anti-Japanese Federation has the posture of holding Fengtian and Liaodong, encircling the main force of the Kwantung Army on the Siping line, and inserting a knife from behind, the Japanese base camp will definitely not sit idly by. At the first time, troops will be mobilized for reinforcements. Even if they gave up some of their gains on other fronts because of this, they would not sit idly by and watch Nanman lose.

If the Japanese base camp quickly mobilizes heavy troops from other directions, under the situation that the strength is used to the extreme due to the tense situation of the war, this force is destined to break through alone, and it will not even be able to cooperate with the flanks, and there will be a danger of being surrounded by the Japanese army.

It takes a lot of time for the Japanese to move reinforcements from other fronts, and even if they move quickly, they will not get there quickly. However, the mobilization of troops from the Korean army, or even the mainland, to reinforce South Manchuria is not a very troublesome task, and it does not take much time. When the time comes, this roundabout and interspersed force will not be able to defeat the tiger, so don't suffer from it again.