In the eyes of the North China Front, such a move was a choice that only a madman would make. Although Japan's actions are more like a bunch of crazy people some of the time. Speaking of the crazy energy of gambling on the fortunes of the country at every turn, there is really no one in the world who can compete with the Japanese.

In the words of later generations, the only way for the Japanese to solve their problems was to create more trouble. This is a nation with a fever of 40 degrees at every turn, and when it comes to madness, at least on this earth, there is no people like them. Behind extreme inferiority is extreme madness. At this time, it is extremely funny to use the word crazy to describe their opponents.

Although it is a little funny, the North China Front, at least their chief of staff, Lieutenant General An Da 23, still stubbornly believes. If the Anti-Japanese Federation, which has now arrived in Rehe, wants to go south and enter the customs, it is definitely something that only a more crazy person can do. Because no one in their right mind would take this risk when there is a powerful enemy around them, unless they don't want their so-called base area.

And from the fact that this army can go from nothing to repeated defeats of the Kwantung Army in a short period of time, in addition to the support of the United States and the Soviet Union behind it, it shows that their commander is not crazy. If he was such an abnormal person, then they would not have grown so much in a short period of time.

The North China Front insisted that the Anti-Japanese Union would never go south lightly until it had completely defeated the Kwantung Army. Because this not only involves fighting in the south, but also needs to face the entire North China Front, more than a dozen divisions and regiments, plus a large number of independent mixed brigades and hundreds of thousands of troops. If you go south, you have to go out to the nest, and you have a chance of winning.

What's more, they simply can't support that long supply line. Before, in Manchuria, they could fight with their so-called base areas on their backs, which could also be regarded as internal operations. The problem of supply is not too much of a problem. But if they go south, such a long supply line, what support do they take.

According to the intelligence transferred by the Kwantung Army, they currently have not only a large number of artillery, all automatic weapons, but also a large number of tanks. With the support of the United States and the Soviet Union behind them, it is not difficult to get these heavy equipment, but it is not easy to make these modern equipment operational. It does not mean that with tanks, it can form combat effectiveness, which also requires a lot of fuel and technical support.

Tanks need fuel to act, and guns need ammunition. A large number of troops went south, and the various supplies required were almost astronomical, and it was such a long distance. And from their so-called base area in North Manchuria to the vast area of West Manchuria, the railway only leads to Tongliao.

According to the Japanese army, the supply line could not be 300 kilometers away from the railway line and the water transport route. Once this range is exceeded, it will be difficult to meet the supply needs. And the establishment of field military stations could not solve the problem of transportation. The Imperial Army, which has strong national support, is like this, and they can support such a long supply line with an industrial base equal to zero.

What's more, if they go south to the Pingjin area, they will be in a mountainous environment along the way, except for the Luanhe River. Limited railway lines, only through Liao. The Yechi Railway to the south was in the hands of the Kwantung Army. In this kind of terrain, their supply lines will probably be even more unsustainable. China is not Europe, and there are not so many roads for them to cross.

The Soviets behind them are now self-sufficient. Even if they have a lot of trucks at their disposal, do they have that much gasoline to get those trucks running? There are also a large number of tanks and combat aircraft, all of which require a lot of fuel to operate.

Therefore, basically, the top leaders of the entire North China Front Army, headed by Lieutenant General Anda 23, all believed that they had now reached Rehe, that they were already adjacent to the North China Front Army in the west, and that they were already close to the Anti-Japanese Union on the southern front. The next major target will definitely be the Kwantung military-controlled zone in South Manchuria. As for North China, some detailed tactics may be adopted, but they will definitely not become the main target.

Regarding the judgment of the North China Front, Yoshimoto Sadachi, who was present on the Kwantung Army, disagreed. His point of view is very clear, the previous stage of the Anti-Japanese Federation's move to seize Ximan is to prepare for the next step of entering the customs. Otherwise, Ximan, where the ethnic situation is complicated, human resources are not abundant, and there are no mineral resources at the same time, it is not worth them to pay such a big price to fight.

Their main goal in seizing Ximan was to enter the customs in the next step and open up the connection with the interior of Guannechina. In order to use the huge manpower and material resources in the China Pass to support their current front. In Yoshimoto's view, the reason why the Anti-Japanese Union terminated the operations in the previous campaigns was not because there was a problem with their high-level command, but because of the limitations of their troops.

The excessively long battle front and the fierce combat capability of the Kwantung Army made it difficult to sustain the use of living forces on the battlefield. The total population of North Manchuria, how large the troops can be formed, as the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi still has a good idea in his heart.

Even if they drink to quench their thirst and mobilize soldiers to fight at any cost, their population base is there. Unless they are willing to risk even the production of food to sustain the most basic subsistence basis, and do everything in their power to carry out a general mobilization. Otherwise, the number of troops they can mobilize is still quite limited.

The repeated occurrence of insufficient troops and the abandonment of follow-up offensives when the situation of the war is favorable is difficult for any army to accept. However, under the circumstance that the actual population of the district under its control is limited, if it wants to continue to expand the total number of troops, then opening up the connection with the interior of China has become the only and inevitable choice.

Moreover, after the loss of Western Manchuria, all the forces of the Kwantung Army have been reduced to Southern Manchuria and Eastern Manchuria. The density of the Kwantung Army's troops in the entire area south of Shinkyo is already quite high. In this case, the Anti-United Nations wants to use the large-scale detour that it was used to before. After the mobilization of the Kwantung Army's troops, the tactic of solving them one by one basically has no room for play.

They want to attack South Manchuria, even if they can seize the entire northeast except for the three provinces of Mukden, Jinzhou and Andong, then the price they pay will probably outweigh the losses. Moreover, even if they were able to open up access to the sea, it would not only mean nothing to them, but would disperse their forces.

Now the Bohai Sea, which is surrounded by the Japanese-controlled area, is Japan's inland sea. Japan, with its powerful navy, will not give them any chance to open up contact with the outside world. On the contrary, they had to watch out for the Japanese army, which had a strong navy, and could land behind them at any time.

It can even be said that the price to be paid in the fight for South Manchuria will be an unbearable price for the Anti-Japanese Federation, which has a large area but still insufficient population base to support a large army. The Kwantung Army is not a scarecrow, let alone those cowardly Chinese army, even if it loses a battle, it will bite off a piece of meat from its counterpart.

Moreover, although the communist army in North China has survived the sweep of the North China Front in turn. However, the North China Front has not been completely eradicated, and these troops with extremely strong survivability and can survive without supplies can resurge at any time. Even if they are no longer able to cooperate with them in frontal combat, it should still be possible to sabotage behind the North China Front and contain the strength and energy of the North China Front.

Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto analyzed political, military, economic, demographic and other aspects, and the Kwantung Army still believed that the Anti-Japanese Federation would start to deploy an offensive against the Guannai in the next step. As for Manchuria, they should still be mainly defensive. Because defense saves a lot of troops and resources compared to attack.

His feeling was not untargeted, because judging from the intelligence collected and the intelligence transmitted from the front line of confrontation with the Anti-Japanese Alliance, after comprehensive analysis, it still believed that the Anti-Japanese Union would not make any major moves in Manchuria in the short term. If they were, they wouldn't have started building a lot of fortifications in the confrontation zone.

In order to make up for the lack of manpower, they even mobilized the local people to participate in the construction of the fortifications. In order to speed up, explosives were rarely used in large quantities to blast the frozen soil of Manchuria to solve the problem of frozen soil. Judging from this situation, if they are not going to recuperate, then they are trying to cover up.

Divert the attention of the Kwantung Army and prepare for the next offensive. It is not the first time that they have resorted to such methods, and the Kwantung Army has also learned from its experience. However, Yoshimoto Sadachi believes that although they have achieved their strategic goals in the previous stage of the battle, they also need time to recuperate. There will be no offensive for at least three to five months. During this time, it was just right to prepare the Kwantung Army and the North China Front.

It's just that for Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi's warning, except for General Okamura Ninji, who didn't say a word, the rest of the North China Front Army was quite unimpressed. Moreover, they believe that even if the next offensive target of the Anti-Japanese Union is to point to the control area of the North China Front, then the North China Front is now ready.

The 26th Division has all arrived at the right banner of Sunit and the line of the yellow flag, and the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade has also moved north to station in Duolun and Zhenglan Banner, blocking the passage of the Anti-Japanese Union westward into Suidong. The troops directly under the front line of Pingjin and Tianjin also mobilized troops to station in Zhangjiakou.

Shanxi's First Army drew a considerable amount of troops to the north and stationed in the Datong Line to take over the defense of the 26th Division. And from the south of Jin, which had been stabilized, troops were transferred north to deploy along the Tongpu Railway. In the Hebei and Pingjin areas, a large number of troops have also been assembled to both sides of the Pingjin area and the Pingzhang Line, and they can go north to support at any time.

At the same time, the so-called Pingxi and Pingbei base areas of the so-called communist army, which were originally operating south of the Pingzhang Line, have been greatly reduced in strength under the repeated sweeps of the North China Front. The so-called base areas in eastern Hebei have almost all been defeated. If the Anti-Union goes south, it has lost all its strategy.

Moreover, the North China Front has mountainous areas that can be advantageous for defense, and in addition to the heavy build-up, if the Anti-Japanese Federation really wants to poke this hornet's nest, then it will get nothing but the loss of troops and generals. What he couldn't do in the Kwantung Army didn't mean that the North China Front couldn't do it either. In addition to the favorable terrain that can be exploited, and the foundation laid for this year's sweep in North China, the North China Front is confident that the attack of the Anti-Japanese Union on North China will be broken and bloody, and the troops will be lost.

The most important thing is that once the Anti-Japanese League really chooses to go south, not only will they face a completely different form of external warfare from the internal line of operations in Manchuria, but also a long supply line that must be guaranteed. In the absence of railway lines and waterways that can provide supplies at any time, the Anti-Union will definitely not take such a big risk to fight south.