Yoshimoto Sadachi's attitude is very clear, instead of fighting to the death now, pay a huge price to fight with the Anti-Union for Ximan, and eliminate the forces of the Anti-Union in Ximan. It is better to use the huge consumption required to maintain the Western Manchurian garrison, as well as the transportation restrictions, to drag them down little by little.

The overall situation in the West Manchurian region, he Yoshimoto Sadaichi still understands. The vast majority of the grain output in Western Manchuria, which is dominated by Mongolian nomadic areas, is not as good as the output of a county in the grain-producing areas of Manchuria, except for Tongliao and Kailu. Large-force operations do not count ammunition, and the food problem alone is enough for every commander to have a headache.

As for the current Kwantung Army, the two divisions in the Linxi battlefield are currently in an increasingly difficult situation, and the shape is becoming more and more dangerous. Faced with the reality that the Kwantung Army was unable to draw enough troops to reinforce the Linxi battlefield, it was better to withdraw the two divisions to the line from Chifeng to Jianping.

As long as they don't get through the direct connection with the battlefield in Kannai, they will be trapped to death. Fight consumption, the vast and sparsely populated North Manchuria, can you fight over the South Manchuria? Even in a normal year, food and other supplies from North Manchuria still need support from South Manchuria. Now with the addition of Ximan, how long can they hold on?

If the war between the Soviets and the Germans had not broken out before, or if the Soviets had won the Soviet-German war, the Kwantung Army would have been in a hurry. But now, the Soviets have taken care of themselves, and the Germans have even captured Kiev, the second largest city in the USSR. In the first battle of Kiev, nearly a million Soviet troops were encircled. As long as the German army took Moscow and Leningrad, how long could the exhausted Soviet Union hold out?

Without the support of the Soviet Union, how long could they support the production and construction corps they created, as well as the vast and sparsely populated North Manchuria? Even if they are now victorious on the battlefield, the outcome of a war is not achieved by winning one or two battles. The competition is for national strength and resources, and they are far worse than this.

If we talk about the battlefield in Kannai, the government of China can still rely on the support of the abundant manpower in the interior of China. Then, in the vast and sparsely populated North Manchuria, the total number of provinces they conquered was not as large as that of the province in the Inner Branch. Now the Kwantung Army should not be afraid of the large territory of the joint control of the army, as long as it controls the South Manchurian and Rehe, it can control the space for real development.

What's more, Yoshimoto Sadamai did not think that it would be a better decision to transfer the Fifth Division to support the Linxi battlefield. In his opinion, the best role of the Fifth Division at this time is more deterrence than actual investment in the front line. If the Fifth Division is thrown into the Linxi battlefield, it will actually open a passage south to Rehe for the Anti-Japanese League on the front line of Tongliao.

At present, the advance army in Rehe has made it difficult for the independent garrison of Rehe to support, and without the cooperation of the North China Dispatch Army, I am afraid that the entire territory of Rehe has been lost. If the Anti-Japanese Union is increasing some of its forces in Rehe, it will be even more difficult for the defenders of Rehe to support. And if Rehe is lost, the Anti-Union is equivalent to opening up a direct connection with the Guannai.

Once they are allowed to obtain sufficient manpower replenishment in the pass, the large-scale expansion of strength will rapidly expand. This was a catastrophe for the Kwantung Army. Since the number of soldiers has become the most critical issue in preventing the growth of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the Kwantung Army can completely start from this aspect in terms of its overall strategy.

Then the more places they occupy, the more dispersed their forces are, and the more beneficial it will be for the Kwantung Army. Didn't the Kwantung Army suffer losses in this regard many times? Now feng shui is taking turns, which is not necessarily a bad thing for the Kwantung Army. Moreover, the occupation of the West Manchurian region by the Anti-Japanese Union requires not only garrisons, but also more than a million ordinary people to feed.

Among these millions of ordinary people, there are still hundreds of thousands who do not know how to farm and can only live a nomadic life, but they need food and clothing. At the same time, the Kwantung Army can have a lot of articles to do, and make some articles within the anti-joint control area, so that they can mess with the Mongols. Hasn't Outer Mongolia always had ambitions for the Inner Mongolia region? This is all where the Kwantung Army can intervene.

The Kwantung Army only had to control the manpower-rich areas of South Manchuria and central Jilin, as well as a strict blockade of the entire Rehe territory, blocking the road to the south and preventing them from opening up contact with the Guannai. Then for the Kwantung Army, when the resistance alliance is extended to the extreme, and internal instability also appears, it is the best reality for the Kwantung Army.

This is from a strategic point of view, and on the rest of the current battlefield, if the two divisions that have been hidden in the shadows, as well as the troops transferred from the East Manchurian Battlefield, are all invested in the line from Tongliao to Lishu, then the mechanized troops of the Anti-United Nations in Tongliao will be freed up and can either go south to the Bac Ninh Railway, or to the east to the Zhongchang Railway.

Once one's own judgment is confirmed, how many divisions and regiments do the anti-United Nations troops that appear on the front line of Tongliao, Lishu, Horqin Left Wing Central Banner, Horqin, and even Lishu and Kangping need to intercept them? Hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles with air support, plus an armored cluster of heavy artillery units. Does the Kwantung Army now have so many troops and equipment to intercept and attack on all fronts?

Tongliao to the east, south, and even to the north, but it is the Songliao Plain. In this kind of terrain, in the face of the enemy's tank onslaught, how many troops does the Kwantung Army need to concentrate in order to gain an advantage on the battlefield? Who can guarantee that the troops and firepower that are currently put into the battlefield will be enough?

As for the 18th Division, which was alone behind the Tongliao line, Yoshimoto Sadaichi even believed that it must be withdrawn immediately. If it is not withdrawn, according to the current battlefield situation, once it is encircled on all sides, the Kwantung Army will not even be able to draw up rescue forces. The Kwantung Army's losses in this battle were already enough, so there should be no more 18th division.

Now that the Anti-Japanese Federation has drawn troops from the front line of Xinjing to the west and rushed to the flank of the 18th Division, coupled with the blocking troops deployed by the Anti-Japanese Federation around the 18th Division, as well as a large number of artillery and aviation networks, the 18th Division has now had problems in protecting itself. And once the Tongliao area has already put on a northward posture of the Anti-Union to transfer some armored clusters to the north, the 18th Division will be in a situation of being encircled.

Don't look at it, the Anti-Japanese Federation can draw troops from the Xinjing battlefield to the Western Front to besiege the 18th Division. However, the Kwantung Army could not draw troops from the Xinjing battlefield to the west to support the 18th Division. The reason is very simple, that is, the troops of the two divisions that have been secretly lurking in the Anti-Japanese Union have never shown up, and the Kwantung Army has been quite a rat in Xinjing.

Even if there are no two divisions that can threaten Xinjing at any time, the Anti-Japanese Union still has a considerable number of troops on the Xinjing battlefield, and it is enough to put considerable pressure on the Xinjing direction. Judging from the current situation around the 18th Division, if the Kwantung Army wants to transfer troops from the Xinjing battlefield to support the 18th Division, it will need at least two wings of troops.

And the deployment of two wings of troops will be ruin for the Xinjing battlefield. Tongliao has now been lost, and the free up of the Anti-Japanese Union there will be led by the tank cluster and directly along the middle and long railway, who can guarantee this? The divisions and regiments along the Zhongchang Railway that were originally intended to be used for the Xinjing Battlefield Reserve Force now dare to be transferred to other directions in order to ensure the safety of the Zhongchang Railway?

The importance of Xinjing to the Kwantung Army is self-evident, people can not attack, but the Kwantung Army cannot not defend. The Anti-Japanese Federation could only leave a part of its troops in Xinjing to contain it, but the Kwantung Army just didn't dare to transfer a single soldier from Xinjing to any battlefield. I am afraid that it is precisely because of this that the face-to-face anti-union dares to act so freely.

Even if the Kwantung Army knew long ago that they were deliberately setting up this formation, the offensive against Xinjing was only a part of the feint attack on the entire battlefield, but it was helpless. Because of the large-caliber heavy artillery put forward by the Anti-Japanese Federation on the battlefield in Xinjing, who knows if they will turn their feints into real attacks when they think they need it or are appropriate?

Xinjing was the capital of Manchukuo, a transportation hub for the entire Central Manchurian region, and the seat of the Kwantung Army Headquarters. If Xinjing is lost, the lethality to the morale of the entire empire is definitely not comparable to the loss of Harbin. Knowing that the opponent was very likely to shoot in Xinjing, the Kwantung Army just didn't dare to draw troops from Xinjing.

And what annoyed Yoshimoto Sadachi the most was that the super heavy artillery used by the Anti-Japanese Federation on the Xinjing battlefield was all made by Japan itself, and it was originally intended to be used in the Manchu-Soviet border fortress group in the East Manchurian region to fight the Soviet army, but now it was smashed on his head. No matter how strong the fortifications are, they cannot withstand the bombardment of a single 240-mm howitzer.

In addition to both tactical and strategic aspects, it was believed that the time had come for the Kwantung Army to withdraw. In order to convince these high-ranking officers of the Kwantung Army in person, Yoshimoto Sadachi also analyzed the advantages of abandoning Saiman from a very high vantage point in terms of the resources needed to sustain the war, as well as the current international situation as a whole.

In Yoshimoto's view, not only automobiles, but also a large amount of fuel required for road transportation are simply beyond the capacity of the Anti-Union. Unless the Americans do not hesitate to aid the Anti-United Nations, the Anti-United Nations, which does not produce a drop of oil at all, will not be able to afford a large amount of fuel for automobiles.

And if the Soviet Union is defeated by its allies, the Germans, even if the Americans provide a large amount of aid to the Anti-Japanese Federation at any cost, it may be transported to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which has no access to the sea on all sides? Judging by the current almost one-sided situation on the Soviet-German battlefield, the defeat of the Soviets was only a matter of time.

Without outside aid, their planes, tanks, and cars are just a pile of scrap metal. And in the case that it can't be made by itself, knock out one less one. After the defeat of the Soviets, as long as the Kwantung Army blocked the passage to Kannai in the resistance union. In addition, the Imperial Army, which ended the southward operation, can refocus back to Manchuria, so is it still a problem to solve the anti-alliance?

Yoshimoto believed that once he entered into a long period of attrition, either the resistance would reduce the strength of the forces in Western Manchuria, or he would be dragged down by huge transportation costs. And if the Anti-Japanese Federation wants to open up the connection with the Guannai, Ximan is its battleground. In this way, the Anti-United Nations can only be dragged down little by little.

It's just that this self-proclaimed Kwantung Army can't afford the consumption of a large number of troops stationed in West Manchuria, and the Anti-Japanese Union can't afford this kind of consumption. If the Anti-Japanese Federation garrisoned a large number of troops in Ximan, it could only be dragged down by huge attrition. If there is no large garrison, Nishiman can get it back at any time, what Yoshimoto Sadachi did not expect.

In order to ensure the supply of troops stationed in West Manchuria, as well as to ensure the realization of future strategic goals. After the end of this battle, the Anti-Japanese Federation did not hesitate to weaken the field troops, specially transferred some cadres and soldiers, and transferred 1,000 trucks and 20 high-horsepower rail-chain tractors to form a railway column.

With the assistance of Guo Bingxun's father, a veteran Chinese railway expert, and other railway experts who arrived in October, and railroad graduates from various Jiaotong Universities, they used the Japanese army's hoards captured in Harbin and Qiqihar, as well as several thousand tons of railroad tracks and sleepers that the United States had provided in '42.

Under the personal command of Yang Zhen, commander of the military region, who is also the commander of the railway column, and Yang Jingyu, deputy commander who is also the commander of the railway column. Adopt the method of starting construction at both ends at the same time, while surveying and construction, starting a section after completing the survey, and multi-way construction at the same time. In the middle of 42 years, the railway, which was originally only leading to Tongliao to the west, was forcibly extended to Linxi.