Chapter 325: All holding on to the last breath

In fact, both the Kwantung Army and the Japanese base camp clearly judged that the offensive launched by the Anti-Japanese Federation should be the last offensive of the Anti-Japanese Federation in the Northeast Battlefield. The current Anti-Union is obviously at the end of the crossbow on the battlefield. As long as you carry the last three axes of the Anti-Japanese Federation, the Northeast Battlefield will end here.

But even if the situation is clearly judged, for the Kwantung Army, which suffered huge casualties in the previous battle, and even far exceeded the Anti-Alliance, it is now also in a state where there are no troops to adjust. In the face of the offensive launched by the Anti-United Nations in Rehe, although it has been accurately judged that the offensive of Rehe should be a diversion action launched by the Anti-United Nations.

However, the Kwantung Army did not dare to send troops from western Liaoning to reinforce South Manchuria, no matter what. In the western part of Liao, the troops were pinned down, and the Kwantung Army was unable to draw reinforcements. Umezu Mijiro had to take the risk and quickly transferred back two wings and six other infantry brigades from the front of the Siping Battlefield, and immediately deployed along the entire line from Xinmin to ***, Hushitai, and Xinchengzi.

At the same time, competent men were immediately dispatched to return to Lushun by plane. Six infantry squadrons were transferred from the Lushun garrison and the independent garrison brigade of the Foreign Changshan Islands. In addition, the expatriates in Kanto Prefecture and all Japanese and Korean policemen were mobilized to participate in the war, except for a small number of military police officers left in each prefecture to cooperate with the same small number of military police to maintain so-called law and order.

The battle situation is urgent, and there is no time to train. The police are not stationed in a centralized manner, and can only be formed in squadrons, and they can be transferred to the front line in one wave. As for how many of those policemen will come back alive, it is not something that General Umezu Mijiro, who is currently eager to stabilize the front-line battle situation, can take into account.

Anyway, there are still some naval garrisons in the Kanto Prefecture, and the Empire's control over the security of the Kanto Prefecture has always been extremely tight. The law and order is also good, and there are not too many problems for the empire to transfer some police. If there is a temporary gap in law and order, can the navy's jellyfish be sent ashore to participate?

However, considering the concentration of some police, there is still a shortage of soldiers. Senior General Umezu Yoshijiro, who had concentrated the police and engaged them in front-line operations, sent people to Kanto Prefecture to gather all the male expatriates, over the age of 17 and under the age of 45, and brought them to Oishibashi for training, despite the resolute opposition of the local administrators. As a reservist, ready to be put into battle at any time.

On the front of Umezu Mijiro, while the Kwantung Army was recruiting soldiers from the rear at all costs, the Anti-Japanese Federation was also reorganizing the original engineering and railway arms, including the few remaining guard units in the rear, and transferring them to the front line. Even the guard regiment of the Northeast Bureau and the Northeast People's Government transferred two battalions.

In order to prepare for this final blow, his opponent Anti-United is also giving it his all. Except for the railway line from Tongliao to Kailu that is being repaired urgently, as well as some railway troops and infrastructure engineering troops on some secret railway lines, all railway troops and engineering troops have been reorganized.

Originally, a division that was reorganized and supplemented with railway troops as the backbone could not meet the needs at all. In the re-entry into this huge meat grinder-like battlefield around Siping, only a few Lang flowers were set off, and there was no power to change the situation of the entire war zone. The various units participating in the war at the front have reached a situation where they are simply unable to realize the plan of the headquarters without replenishment.

Under the overall situation of insufficient follow-up troops, Guo Bingxun personally asked the commanders and political commissars of the various second-level military regions, as well as the responsible persons of various departments of the railway corps, infrastructure engineering corps, and logistics departments. The armed forces of the counties under the subordinate subordinate districts and sub-districts in the base areas will be reorganized in a centralized manner, with the exception of one cavalry squad and one infantry squadron left in each county.

It was organized into a semi-integrated division, and all of them were devoted to the troops with the most serious combat losses in front-line operations. The railway public security units, which had been allocated to the Northeast Bureau, were all re-transferred to the combat units. After collecting at all costs, Guo Bingxun stubbornly pieced together the reserve soldiers of 16 independent regiments at the last critical moment of the campaign.

After three days of intensive training, these soldiers immediately went to the Siping front line to replenish the battle losses of the front-line participating troops. As a result of these efforts, five divisions at the front were re-established, and three divisions were partially restored to their crippled units. But this is already the limit of the current ability to withdraw and replenish the troops of the Anti-United Nations.

After this centralized readjustment, only one regiment remained in each second-level military district in the rear, which served as a guard and prisoner in the prisoner of war camps and the concentration of Japanese overseas Chinese. Only one and a half local armed service squadrons remain in the counties under the military sub-districts, which are responsible for supervising and guarding important targets.

The railway soldiers left only two regiments and two independent battalions to continue to repair and open the railway, as well as several secret railway lines in the lofty mountains of the Greater and Lesser Khing'an Mountains. The ongoing task of renovating the various railway branch lines built by the Kwantung Army in the Changbai Mountains has been temporarily suspended. All the units that have been transferred out have been reorganized.

Not counting the engineering regiments assigned to the aviation troops, the headquarters directly subordinate to the five infrastructure engineering regiments and four other independent battalions, leaving only three independent battalions engaged in secret engineering in the Daxing'an Mountains. The rest were all reorganized, and the two regiments were merged into one, organized into two integrated regiments and one condensed regiment, which were integrated into the front-line combat units to replenish casualties.

The tasks of hardening the war-ready highways and the construction and reconstruction of permanent airports such as Jiamusi, Mudanjiang, Dongning, Wangqing, and Yanji were all entrusted to the local governments. All branches of the armed forces and logistics departments should draw out as many guard units as possible. If you can leave a platoon, you will definitely not leave a company.

By adopting various means and not hesitating to halt the construction of a number of important projects, Guo Bingxun cobbled together a part of the reinforcement at all costs. Under the condition that the new recruits were insufficient, the slogan of everything for the front line spread throughout the base area. Except for the troops that really can't be drawn, almost all the troops that can be drawn have been drained.

As for the shortage of troops left behind in the base areas, the original method of concentrating all recruits in military regions for unified training and extreme training has been temporarily changed. All the recruits were organized into twenty recruit regiments and transferred to the second-tier areas. While conducting training, he also served as a second-line security mission.

At present, the Kwantung Army and the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which are exhausted, have already deployed the last bit of strength at hand. In fact, everyone can't fight anymore. However, the right to determine is not in the main battlefield of the northeast, but in Shanxi and Chanan in northern China. Everyone is holding on to the last breath, and now the competition is to see who can't stand it and fall down first.

Originally, Umezu Mijiro wanted to mobilize some troops from the Korean army and reinforce them to the northeastern battlefield. But for his request, the base camp refused without the slightest consideration. The base camp made it clear that the DPRK army was not allowed to move a single soldier under any circumstances.

The Korean Peninsula was the closest link between Japan and the mainland, and the empire painstakingly annexed Korea, even at the expense of fighting Russia at the time, in order to gain a springboard to attack China. Without Korea, the entire empire's armies in China and Manchuria would have been cut off from the mainland.

At the same time, this Korean army not only undertook the defense of the key parts of the connection between the mainland and the battlefield of China, but also one of the important barriers of the last defense circle of the empire itself. The two divisions are now under the command of the General Headquarters of the Territorial Defense. These two divisions are the few remaining standing divisions in the mainland.

It can be said that it is responsible for the defense of the homeland and is a very important part of the garrison. If these two divisions were transferred to the Kwantung Army, what would happen to the mainland in case something happened to Korea? Moreover, there are no new divisions in the base camp to fill the defense vacancies left by the transfer of these two divisions of the Korean Army.

In addition to these reasons, in fact, the main reason for the base camp's refusal to transfer the Korean army into South Manchuria to participate in the war is that the Anti-Japanese Union has now controlled the Tumen River Estuary on the line from Fengshan to Jingcheng. And already from the northeast threatens Pyongyang, the core of Japanese domination in the north of Korea, the Korean Peninsula is actually already on the battlefield. and the Korean Peninsula is not in an extremely important position in the overall strategic posture of the Japanese army.

The most critical point is that the battle in which the Anti-Japanese Federation raided the depths of South Manchuria and swept the entire Liaodong left too deep an impression on the Japanese base camp. The large-scale interspersed tactics used by the Anti-Japanese Federation in that war swept the front lines of Fengtian, Fushun, Benxi, Anshan, and Liaoyang, which made the Japanese base camp still have lingering palpitations.

If it weren't for the ease of command at that time, the Kwantung Army Headquarters would have been relocated to Kaiyuan after retreating from Siping. Then it was not the industry of South Manchuria that was lost in this war, but I am afraid that since the Meiji Restoration created a new army, the army may have the first active army general to be killed or captured in battle.

The base camp is very worried that the Anti-Japanese Federation will come in North Korea. If the tactics adopted by the Anti-Japanese Federation in South Manchuria were replicated in North Korea, it would not be just a matter of losing some factories, and the Korean Peninsula would not be South Manchuria, which was relatively far away from the mainland.

The empire itself and the Korean Peninsula are separated by a strait that is not very wide. In particular, on the Busan line, a large number of transport ships were concentrated because of the transportation relationship between the empire and the battlefields of South Manchuria and China. If these ships fall into the hands of the enemy, plus the enemy army has a large number of bombers and transports. It would be a shame for Japan to set foot on the soil with even a single enemy soldier.

Even if there is no surprise attack on the mainland, there are many factories in North Korea that are necessary to sustain the war. At present, the Mukden Arsenal has been destroyed and cannot be produced, and if the Arsenal in Incheon and Busan is lost again, it will have a fatal impact on the overall strategy of the Empire.

Although General Umezu Mijiro had repeatedly assured that the North Manchurian Resistance League had now reached the limit of the use of troops, the base camp still did not dare to take any risks. He directly rejected the application for at least one division or regiment to be transferred to the Kwantung Army from the Korean Army or the Southern Army, even if it was one of the troops sent by China.

The base camp directly told General Umezu Mijiro that the Southern Army's attack on Australia and India had entered the final preparations. All the reserves of the base camp have been transferred to the two theaters of the Pacific and Southeast Asia. At present, the Kwantung Army can only rely on its own strength to contain the offensive of the Anti-Union.

Not only did the Kwantung Army not even provide any reinforcements, but the base camp also took one-third of the artillery shells and half of the small arms ammunition from the last batch of ammunition in the brigade and the Kwantung Army. The Mukden Arsenal was already in a state of shutdown, and not a single round of ammunition was allocated to the Kwantung Army from the mainland.

Of course, the base camp did not do everything, and agreed that the Korean army should immediately mobilize no less than 10,000 soldiers in the countryside from Korea for the Kwantung Army, and recruit 50,000 Korean recruits for the Kwantung Army. He also arranged for the Korean army to immediately dismantle the Incheon Arsenal and transfer all the workers and technicians there, including a large amount of equipment, to the Kwantung Army.

If the Kwantung Army is able to resume production at the Mukden Arsenal in a short time, the base camp will not be pulling any ammunition and supplies from this factory for the entire forty-two years. The products of the few remaining military raw material factories in South Manchuria, which were set up in Kwantung Prefecture, could be allocated to the Kwantung Army on a priority basis.