Although the capacity of this railway, at the beginning, due to the construction process, too rushed progress and some quality problems and other reasons were not very high. In the first year of operation, the locomotive could only pull a maximum of 12 cars under load, and the real capacity was only equivalent to a small railway.

Even a considerable part of the roadbed has problems of one kind or another because it has not been carefully surveyed. Most of the bridges are also temporary railway bridges with sleepers. Until the complete renovation in four or four years and the completion of all the railway bridges, the roadbed was always in a semi-open state because the roadbed often had problems and needed to be repaired.

However, it greatly reduced the pressure on the transportation of materials in the West Manchurian region and brought to the Anti-Japanese Federation. With the development of the war situation, this railway, which had been extending westward, intersected with the Pingsui Railway in Jining at the end of 43 years, becoming the main artery connecting the Anti-Japanese Federation and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region. The relocation of drought-stricken people from northern China over a period of four or three years has also played a considerable role.

What Yoshimoto Sadachi didn't know was that at this time, under the guidance of Professor Huang Jiqing, the Northeast Bureau had completed the installation of the oil derrick in Xingshugang and Zhaozhou Gaotaizi in Anda, and was seizing the time to complete the follow-up construction before the freeze.

According to the plan, as long as there are no accidents, drilling will start after the completion of the special railway branch line in the spring of next year. The construction of the oil pipeline between the refineries connecting the Lansi and Anda junctions has already begun, and is now under full swing and the installation of equipment has begun.

The large number of trucks provided by the Americans in '42 and the large amount of high-quality gasoline provided in '42 before the operation of the Kanglian refinery also made the burden of road transportation within the range of the Kanglian's affordability. It's just that these are not what Yoshimoto Sadachi, who thought he had a last resort and thought that the heavy burden of road transportation would eventually crush the Anti-Union, can imagine now.

The Chinese are no less resilient than the Japanese, and as long as they are determined to do well, they are not much worse than the Japanese. It's just that the endless internal friction of the previous decades has consumed too much energy of the Chinese. Once China unites, puts its mind where it needs to be used, and makes up its mind to do something, there is nothing that cannot be done.

Of course, these are all things that should be considered after the end of this counterattack. As for the present moment for Yoshimoto Sadachi, all the counterattack operations of his formation, at least in the West Manchurian battlefield, must be stopped immediately. Because of the Ximan battlefield, it has reached the point where it is impossible not to retreat.

In the fight, unless the Kwantung Army can increase the strength of two divisions for the Linxi battlefield in a short period of time, and recapture the Tongliao line. Otherwise, Linxi's two divisions would repeat the mistakes of the 14th and 23rd Divisions. But any of these two are difficult for the Kwantung Army to do at the moment.

Rather than reluctantly fighting now, the result may be to take more divisions and regiments. It is better to stop immediately and take the defense on all fronts. Although Yoshimoto Sadachi also believes that this approach is really a bit humiliating for the Kwantung Army. But he insisted that this was the only way that the Kwantung Army could take at present. Unless Admiral Umezu Mijiro is able to solve the first two problems in the shortest possible time.

Compared to Yoshimoto Sadachi, who is a bit wishful thinking, but considers the issues in great detail, whether it is a strategic issue or a tactical issue. A considerable number of high-ranking officers in the Kwantung Army, including two of his deputies, did not agree with his judgment. There are not only many people who advocate fighting to the death, but even quite a few.

For the current battle situation, it is embarrassing to the top, but I still agree that these actions are the real situation that the Anti-Union has exhausted its strength and the offensive can no longer be carried out, and I hope to fight hard. This part of the people is mainly the two deputy chiefs of staff of the Kwantung Army, Major General Tachibana Ayabe and Major General Qin Hiko Saburo.

In addition to these two deputy chiefs of staff, the rest of those who believed that the Kwantung Army should continue to fight included Yoshitomi Tamura, head of the first section, Kajiro Muranaka, head of the third section, Gosuke Kurokawa, chief of the fourth section, and Junhisa Ikeda, head of the fifth section. That is to say, those who insisted on fighting included almost the entire high-ranking officers of the Kwantung Army Command.

These people believe that although the hostile situation in East Manchuria, there have been a series of changes. The whereabouts of the enemy's troops withdrawn from the Korean battlefield are currently unknown. Although the enemy army has mobilized a large number of military columns in several railway stations around the Mudanjiang River, there is no definite evidence that this part of the enemy army will be thrown into the Ximan battlefield.

As for the part of the enemy that disappeared from the battlefield and never showed up after the completion of the battle against the 51st Division, it was only the strength of two divisions. Even if it appears on the battlefield of Linxi or Tongliao, it may not be able to change the tide of the battle. As long as the Linxi battlefield can be delayed for a period of time and create a certain number of fighters for the Kwantung Army to solve the Tongliao battlefield, then there is still a way.

And even if the Anti-Japanese Federation is adding two divisions, if they want to swallow these two divisions on the Linxi battlefield in a short period of time, it depends on whether they have that good tooth. What's more, the Kwantung Army also deployed the Fifth Division on the front line of Zhangwu and Xifuxin, which can support the Linxi battlefield at any time. Even if it can't support the Linxi battlefield, it can contain the enemy army on the front line of Tongliao and can't move west.

At the same time, the 18th Division behind Tongliao, as well as a division that was preparing to attack westward in Lishu, were completely ready to fight against Tongliao. Although the current strength of the Kwantung Army is somewhat insufficient, it is far from being completely unsupportable.

At present, the 10th Division, which has arrived in Mukden, can also be quickly transported to the Chifeng line by guò railway. Now that the battle has been fought to this result, the Kwantung Army has already lost face. If you don't fight again, then where is the face of the Kwantung Army? What was the prestige of the Great Japanese Empire?

In addition to the two factions that are clearly distinguished, the chief operational staff officer of the Kwantung Army, who has the most right to speak, single-handedly formulated a series of plans for a comprehensive counterattack, and almost did not let Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun, the two supreme military commanders of the Anti-Japanese Federation, take the lead, but he has always remained silent and has not expressed his position. In addition to him, Lieutenant General Yokoyama Zheno, commander of the Kwantung Army's field railways, who attended the meeting as an observer, also did not say a word.

It is normal for Lieutenant General Yokoyama to not speak, he is the commander of the field railways in charge of all railway garrisons and field maintenance in the area under the jurisdiction of the Kwantung Army. He couldn't talk about the war. Moreover, this Lieutenant General Yokoyama Zhenxiong himself is a rare one in the army and has never stood in line.

He never expressed his opinion on matters that were not his responsibility, except for his own responsibilities. To put it bluntly, it is the kind of situation in which the self-preservation of the wise comes first. Therefore, although he has become a lieutenant general, he has been going around in various technical positions so far, and has never served as the commander of a division or the chief of staff of a certain front army.

At this operational meeting, in the face of the representatives of the base camp, he simply came and kept silent. I almost didn't say it clearly, I'm here to make soy sauce, don't ask my opinion. Even if I were asked, I didn't have any opinion. I was the commander of the field railroad, and I had only a few railway wings under my command that specialized in repairing the railway. It is not the commander of the Kwantung Army, who has many well-equipped field divisions under his command, and it is not my turn to express my opinion on such a matter.

But the silence of that Takei Seitaro Nakasa surprised everyone. The entire plan was drafted and formulated by him. How to adjust the current situation after the battle, he is the one who has the most right to speak. But at this time, he chose to be silent, and it was very surprising to watch others arguing.

However, now those generals who really control the fate of the Kwantung Army, at this time, no one cares about what a staff officer of the chief of the Central Commander is thinking. Despite the importance of his position and the formulation of the entire battle plan of the Kwantung Army, the generals still believed that they were the ones who really decided the fate of the Kwantung Army.

In addition to these two who did not say a word, the other person who sat on the main seat with a blue face and did not speak was Umezu Mijiro. The commander of the Kwantung Army looked at the red-faced officers arguing in the conference room, and he didn't say a word. However, if you look closely, the commander of the Kwantung Army, who has always been known for his determination, has a trace of confusion in his eyes at the moment.

As for Rear Admiral Takijiro Onishi, who was in charge of commanding the naval aviation participating in the war, he attended the meeting as an observer. Looking at all the army generals present, although they did not speak, the look of schadenfreude in their eyes was fully revealed. It's just that at this time, no one is in the mood to deal with him as an admiral.

It is not for nothing that this Major General Takijiro Onishi is so gloating. In this operation, the Kwantung Army ignored the opposition of the navy and insisted on mobilizing a large number of bombers to blow up the embankments along the Songhua River, so as to cut off the retreat of the anti-Japanese alliance by replacing troops with water. As a result, nothing was found, and the bombers of the army aviation that were mobilized suffered heavy losses in the desperate interception of the enemy aviation.

What is even more tragic is that these army bombers, which were originally in the air-ground interception of the Anti-United Nations and had suffered heavy losses, did not know when they mixed in a few of them, perhaps the Army's Type 97 medium bombers and Type 98 light bombers captured by the Anti-United Nations.

These army-standard bombers, which were captured by the Anti-Japanese Federation and painted all over their bodies and even had the same symbol of the Rising Sun as the Army, fished in troubled waters and took advantage of the aircraft groups dispatched before they had time to count the battle damage. Following the dispatched army air bomber group, they returned to Hailong Airport together. Before the bomber group involved in the air raid landed and returned to the cave, a surprise attack was launched on the Hailong airfield.

The bomber group in the entire battle group, which took Hailong Airport as the starting point, was blown up in a mess when it landed. All the bomber groups that returned safely, in neat rows, were destroyed one by one by the dozen or so bombers made by the army itself, as if they had been hit on a ground target.

The bombers that survived the enemy interception were blown up into a pile of garbage in front of the surrounding anti-aircraft artillery and several fighters protecting the airfield. Combined with the losses in the air battle, the losses of the army aviation forces in combat reached almost two-thirds of the mobilized troops.

And when these dozen bombers were diving and bombing the airfield, the anti-aircraft artillery on the ground and the few German-made fighters left in the sky to cover did not have time to react at all. The commander of the army's ground anti-aircraft artillery at Hailong Airport was even more stupid and thought that those planes in the sky were his allies, and he desperately contacted the sky.

Until they dropped all their bombs, and under the cover of the sudden appearance of the anti-union cover group, they swaggered away. Facing the group of its own bombers that had become a pile of wreckage, I was stunned to understand that those were the enemy at all. It's just that at this point, it's too late to react at all. There is nothing left of the airport except a pile of rubble.