If we say that the dissatisfaction of the fifth and seventh army commanders is due to the major readjustment of cadres at all levels, I have been familiar with it for many years, so that the old subordinates who are very comfortable with it have been transferred, and I have some doubts about future cooperation. and not knowing their new partner. Then Liu Changshun and Wang Xiaoming's dissatisfaction is because of their own reasons.

Liu Changshun, who came from the 18th Group Army, knew that whether or not the relationship between the military chief officer and the political officer in charge of a unit could be harmonious and whether or not unity could be done well was a very big factor affecting the combat effectiveness of the unit. Although the time between himself and Wang Xiaoming is not often, the relationship between the two has always been very harmonious. Wang Xiaoming, who is a few years older than him, has always tolerated himself like a big brother.

Now Wang Xiaoming was suddenly transferred, and the new political commissar was replaced, although the commander did not announce it at the meeting. However, no matter who the new political commissar is, it will take a long time for him to run in. According to his own character, it would be better to replace him with a political commissar who is as inclusive as Wang Xiaoming or has a similar temper with him.

If it is replaced by a political commissar with a strong temperament, or a political commissar with the same irritable personality as the commander, the result of these two stubborn donkeys being tied to a trough makes Liu Changshun have a headache when he thinks about it. No matter who this is, except for people with extremely high cultivation, this person who has been rolling in blood and rain on the battlefield for many years, this temper and character can be predictably not too good.

Just like his own commander, a college graduate who is a serious student, he is the champion in the past, and he is a Wenqu star. According to this statement, the temperament should be very good, at least it should match the ink in his stomach. But now look at the commander, it's only been a few days since he got out of the army, and his temper has grown up vigorously.

Thinking of this, Liu Changshun suddenly had some thoughts: "How good would it be if the new political commissar and the chief of staff were the same?" It depends on whether the chief of staff has drunk foreign ink, and this cultivation is good. Even if he is not lightly angry, he rarely trains people. How can there be anything like the commander, who almost didn't raise his feet and kick it. ”

Liu Changshun thought about it here, but Wang Xiaoming had a bitter face over there. He understood what the military division was doing. To put it bluntly, it is the same as the provincial defense army in the past when the young marshal was in the past, the only difference is that the opponent of the provincial defense army in the past was the bandits in the northeast region, and the opponent of the current military subdivision is the local police and local organizations of the puppet Manchurians.

When Wang Xiaoming was in the Second Route Army before, because of the constraints of conditions, although the number of troops commanded for many years was very large, the number was always small, and his talents were somewhat buried.

However, since the Second Route Army and Yang Zhen's department completed the merger, although it was only the political commissar of the regiment who served as the chief officer, a regiment had a strength of 3,000 people to beat the previous army, or even more.

Not only are there sufficient soldiers, but they are also fully equipped, and there is no shortage of light and heavy machine guns, mortars, and infantry guns. Although he now has only one regiment on hand, his firepower configuration cannot be compared even if all the past Second Route Army is combined.

The army is developing rapidly, and now is the time to show its strength. But he didn't expect that at a time when the army was developing greatly, it would be kicked from the main force to the local troops in the nature of a security regiment.

Although he was promoted to a higher level, he became a political commissar of a military division. If this is according to the establishment of the Second Route Army in the past, at least one division political commissar. Moreover, it is a subdivision formed mainly by the five armies of its old army. But in his opinion, the political commissar of this military sub-district might as well assign himself to be a battalion commander who can fight on the front line.

I don't know how determined Yang Zhen was, so he decided to transfer him to a sub-district to serve as a member of the political committee. But Wang Xiaoming, who is familiar with Yang Zhen's character, did not dare to show it at all, despite the adjustment of his work and the reluctance in his heart. Wang Xiaoming knew wisely that if he proposed not to work in the division, he would rather stay in the Second Regiment, even if it was to be a battalion commander or battalion instructor, I am afraid that a severe reprimand would be inevitable.

Compared with Liu Changshun and Wang Xiaoming's dissatisfaction, it can only be suppressed in their hearts, but Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada's dissatisfaction can be really written on his face. Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada said that he was dissatisfied with the strength of the two integrated wings of the 104th Division, which had been ordered to go north this time, plus one brigade and seven infantry brigades, and that those who had lost almost all their weapons and equipment could barely make up for the two infantry brigades.

In the face of the three wings that attacked, one and a half were killed and wounded, almost all the heavy weapons they carried were lost, and even many people ran away with a piece of crotch cloth left, not to mention, even the front-line commander Nishiyama Fukutaro was vomited blood and fell unconscious in anger, Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru almost blew his lungs.

The 104th Division suffered such heavy casualties, which could not but be said to make Sawada Shigeru a little angry. Especially after learning that the 104th Division almost lost in a confused and inexplicable way, if it weren't for the fact that Sawada Shigeru, who was the commander of the 4th Division, had become accustomed to blows after the battle of Gunce Mountain, otherwise he would have followed in the footsteps of Fukutaro Nishiyama and vomited blood in anger.

This battle was only half a day and a whole night, not counting all the dead of the Third Cavalry, including the brigade commander Major General Naoda Yoshi, mixed into a brigade. Even except for a brigade left behind in Jiamusi, the 104th Division, which was transferred to Jiamusi by Ueda Kenjili, was almost completely lost.

Especially when it was learned that an infantry battalion of the 104th Division was pursuing the opponent's small force harassing troops, and was led by the opponent to the swamp and lost most of its troops. Of the three infantry squadrons dispatched, only more than one squadron escaped being buried on the spot, saving even digging a pit.

Not a single shot was fired at the rest, even their stupid captain, who was thrown into the Stone Temple, southeast of the Xingshan Fortress District, in the almost endless swamp.

This embarrassing ending made Shigeru Sawada, who has always considered himself tough and steady, unable to bear it anymore. He directly asked Ueda Kenkichi to encircle and suppress this bandit next time, hoping to mobilize elite soldiers such as the Second Division or the Eighth Division, and send a puppet Manchu army familiar with the terrain to cooperate in the battle. And there must be at least two divisions and regiments with strong aviation support.

It's a pity that Senior General Ueda Kenkichi won't give him any more answers. After the news of the defeat of the 4th Division, the 11th Division, and the 104th Division in succession and the loss of troops was transmitted back to Japan, the Japanese Emperor, who was extremely dissatisfied with the Kwantung Army's delay in completely annihilating this anti-Manchu anti-Japanese element, which could be said to be the top secret of the Great Japanese Empire, ordered that those responsible must be punished with the most severe punishment.

A week after the 104th Division withdrew to Jiamusi, a high-level investigation team composed of six military staff officers of the army and navy personally named by the emperor led by Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo, director of education of the Japanese army, arrived in Xinjing. After a detailed investigation that lasted for half a month, a report that was extremely unfavorable to Ueda Kenkichi was released.

Through this report, the Japanese army base camp learned that it was not only the Kwantung Army's epidemic prevention and water supply department that suffered heavy losses from this anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese army, but also not only the Fourth Division and the 104th Division. suffered a big loss, and was hooded and turned around, and the losses were not light, and there were many elites of the Kwantung Army such as the 12th Division.

In this report, the most disadvantageous thing for Ueda Kenkichi is not only the delay in retaking back the Ministry of Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply, but also the top-secret information that must not be leaked.

The loss of the Konzesan Secret Warehouse, the largest secret warehouse in the entire Kwantung Army's Northeast Manchurian region, and the loss of the Xingshan Fortress, one of the most secret so-called national defense projects of the Japanese army, built by the Japanese army around the entire Manchurian-Soviet border, made the Japanese base camp even more angry.

After learning that the Kwantung Army had poked out so many baskets in less than a year, the entire Japanese military leadership, including the Japanese emperor, was extremely angry. As the first person responsible for these incidents, Kenkichi Ueda, the current commander of the Kwantung Army, received the most severe punishment from the Japanese army since the formation of the new army.

The Japanese base camp even ignored the growing conflict on the Manchu-Soviet border, and directly dismissed Ueda Kenkichi from his post as commander of the Kwantung Army and ordered him to retire immediately.

Even according to the usual practice, no matter how high or low the rank of the Japanese army is, no matter how high or low the official rank, cannot be promoted after reaching a certain number of years of service, and after he needs to retire, he is transferred to the reserve or serves as a military staff officer as a comforting benefit, and he is directly ordered to retire completely. Even his rank of general was stripped and directly demoted to major general.

The result of this disposition is the result of the mediation of Vice Admiral Hideki Tojo, a former vice minister of the army, the current chief of army aviation, who served as chief of staff of the Kwantung Army during Kenkichi Ueda's tenure as commander of the Kwantung Army, but was extremely dissatisfied with the participation of Admiral Hideki Tojo in the investigation team. Otherwise, according to the emperor's opinion, he would be completely deprived of his military rank and let the general retire as a civilian.

For Ueda Kenkichi's direct order to retire from active duty, he was not even given a reserve or a short transfer to the office. Even the rank of general was deprived of the result of the disposition of the direct order to retire with the rank of major general. It is unprecedented in the Japanese army, and according to the Japanese military system and the fine tradition of special care for senior generals, it can be regarded as the last one.

Sixty-four-year-old Kenkichi Ueda could no longer withstand the blow and died of a cerebral hemorrhage half a year after returning to Japan.

After Ueda Kenkichi was dismissed, in order not to affect the command of the Kwantung Army, which was fighting with the Soviet Army in the Normenhan area, the Tokyo base camp transferred Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro, commander of the First Army of the Japanese North China Dispatch Army, to the post of commander of the Kwantung Army as soon as possible.

As for the 104th Division, which was privately considered by the headquarters in Tokyo to the Kwantung Army to be the founder of the Meiji Emperor and formed a new army, the 104th Division, which had suffered the heaviest losses in a battle that could not even be called a campaign scale, was also swept away and became another unlucky ghost.

Half a month after the investigation team completed the investigation of the person responsible for the Kwantung Army accident and returned to Tokyo. The 104th Division, which was originally scheduled to be stationed in Manchuria for one year, was transferred back to China for collective restoration after the newly formed divisions and regiments had formed combat effectiveness, and the time for the restoration of the regiment was fully advanced. At the beginning of July 39, the 104th Division, which was known as the shame of the Imperial Army, was transferred back to Japan as quickly as possible, and all the officers and men of the Division, including Major General Nishiyama Fukutaro, were restored.

The severe punishment suffered by the Kwantung Army, especially the ending of General Kenkichi Ueda, made a deep impression on the newly appointed commander of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Mijiro. Umezu Mijiro, who was extremely eye-catching in the First Army of the North China Front, was extremely cautious this time.

After Umezu Mijiro took office, he changed his previous style of being extremely sharp and even a little sharp in the Shanxi war, and changed to a steady and steady style.

Under the premise that the Kwantung Army was unable to win the Battle of Normenhan for a long time, and under the heavy cost of casualties under the Soviet ground-to-air fire and a large number of tanks, the main force of the Kwantung Army was unable to look eastward, Umezu Yoshijiro changed the strategy of his predecessor Kenkichi Ueda's blind attack.

This Umezu Mijiro is extremely cunning. Although he also thinks in his heart that this anti-Japanese armed force, which does not know what has developed now, will be a big trouble for his henchmen. However, he still did not take immediate action against it, but focused his main energy on the Soviet army, which was fighting fiercely with the Kwantung Army in the Normenkhand area at the moment.

Umezu Mijiro understood that the main energy was drawn to its European part, and also the most developed Western Front in the entire Soviet Union. Now that the war clouds are thick, and everyone can smell the smell of war on the Western Front, the Soviet troops who are fighting against themselves in Nomenhan are at most an itching pain.

Although I know that this battle will not really develop into a war between the two countries at the moment, after all, the victory or defeat is still related to the national body, especially to avoid this bear with a good appetite from stabbing him in the north when he is fighting against China. Therefore, after taking office, Umezu Mijiro focused on the Nomenhan area. As for Yang Zhen's department, it was only temporarily sealed and sealed in a narrow area west and north of the Songhua River and east of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains.

In Umezu Mijiro's view, as long as it is blocked, it is not allowed to expand outward. Although there are several counties, the total population together is not as large as that of a single county in the interior of South Manchuria or China, and it is impossible to provide them with sufficient supplementary troops. It is also impossible to provide it with sufficient supplies, and in the absence of effective strategic space, it is simply impossible to develop and grow.

As long as it cannot develop and grow, after solving the Soviet army by itself, it will free up its hands and mobilize the elite troops of the Kwantung Army, which can be solved in one battle.