It's just that the pie painted by the Japanese army base camp for the Kwantung Army is very large, but also very round. But the potential problem is that the base camp is not able to provide you with any supplies right now. If you are able to resume production, the base camp will not want a single bullet from this arsenal for the rest of the forty-two years.

Of course, this premise is that if the Kwantung Army can resume production at the Mukden Arsenal. In other words, the ideal is very full, but the reality is very cruel. One-third of the equipment was dismantled from the entire Fengtian Arsenal, and all the key components that could be dismantled were dismantled.

The several hydraulic presses of several hundred tons in the Fengtian Arsenal were too bulky to be disassembled for a while, but all the motors and all parts on them were removed. Unless the fittings and motors are found in a short period of time, the entire hydraulic press has turned into a pile of scrap metal.

The most important thing is that these hydraulic presses are imported from Europe and the United States, and there is almost no possibility of replenishing spare parts in the current situation. And not only did the equipment not take away, but the key parts were dismantled. Almost all the plant's boiler rooms, water towers, and other ancillary facilities were blown up, and the power transmission and transformation equipment was completely dismantled.

Grenades were thrown into the furnace of the boiler, and although the large parts were not blown up, they were quite troublesome to repair. All the heating pipes and ancillary facilities were either removed or blown up, and all the stairs of the office building were torn down. As for the smokeless gunpowder and special steel smelting plants, not only did not even a single part of the equipment remain, but even the factory buildings and office buildings were blown up.

It is better to say that the equipment was dismantled, and the most important thing is that more than 3,000 technicians were arrested. All the weapons and equipment drawings were burned clean. All the factories involved in the military industry, from the factory to the workshop, from the surviving buildings to the remnants of the equipment, even the heating pipes are covered with landmines.

These mines are not only ordinary anti-infantry mines, but also a large number of treacherous mines set up by the enemy. In the arrangement of these mines, the enemy troops can be described as painstaking. Although the Kwantung Army quickly mobilized a large number of engineers from the front, these minefields were too strangely laid. The speed at which the minefields of the various factories were cleared was unusually slow.

After the recapture of the factory, a large number of Japanese officers and soldiers had already been killed and wounded by landmines. Not only were the officers and men on alert killed and wounded, but even the sappers were killed or wounded in an average day. Even the minefields that have been cleared on the roads in the factory area still have landmines.

One of the guards urinated in the corner of the wall that had been swept during the night, and as a result of the pee, a thunderbolt was poured on the wall. Due to the location of the explosion, which happened to be aimed at the most critical part, this guard was immediately blown up and became the latest eunuch in Japan.

Later, the sappers found more than 200 extremely cleverly camouflaged and deployed wooden-shelled mines just within the walls around the foundry of the Mukden Arsenal. And while these mines were being investigated and cleared, a whole half of the engineer squadron was either dead or disabled. This is just the wall of a branch factory, and I am afraid that no one will know how many mines there are in the various arsenals in the entire Mukden City, except for those who planted them.

After the withdrawal of the Anti-Japanese Union, Umezu Mijiro, who rushed back as soon as possible, inspected the factory, and the ashes of the burned drawings were still there. And the commander of the Kwantung Army, who was in a hurry to return to inspect the arsenal, almost stepped on a mine. In order to welcome his inspection, the main road of the factory has been cleared three times of minefield, and there are still fish that have slipped through the net.

When his convoy entered the factory, a Type 94 truck, which was the leading vehicle, was directly overturned by a wooden-hulled anti-tank mine. The guards and staff officers inside were heavily killed and wounded by the bombing. During the rescue, more than a dozen guards stepped on a mine and became disabled.

In the end, the troops responsible for demining had to mobilize two bulldozers to push up the main road in the factory along with the masonry above. As a result, people continue to step on landmines. Looking at the guards who were killed and bombed, Umezu Mijiro, who was blocked at the gate of the arsenal, was speechless for a long time.

For Umezu Mijiro, the amount of these mines deployed did not matter, but the cleverness of the deployment made all the demining personnel amazed and at the same time extremely headaches. It would be another matter if even the sappers who were clearing the mines were terrified and had to rely on the officers' sabers and pistols to dare to enter the minefields. This scene was simply a great shame for the Imperial Army, which has always been known for not fearing death.

This arsenal was restored, even if there was a large amount of equipment replenished, but not for a year or two it could not be restored. According to Umezu Mijiro, it would take at least two months just to clear those mines. This is still the result that can only be obtained at the cost of casualties among the sappers. And the problem of repairing equipment and replenishing workers has not yet been calculated.

In other words, this picture cake drawn by the base camp is actually nothing for the Kwantung Army and Umezu Mijiro. Except for the 10,000 soldiers in the township, the Kwantung Army got nothing. Even after some of the small arms stockpiles in Mukden were looted or blown up, the Kwantung Army now does not even have enough equipment to arm these 10,000 soldiers in the countryside.

As for the 50,000 North Korean recruits, even if they can be used on the battlefield. But the premise is that the training can be completed before the end of this campaign. Otherwise, these North Korean soldiers will not only fail to solve the problem, but will also delay major events. And for Senior General Umezu Miji, he is very distrustful of the reliability of the North Koreans.

This result made Senior General Umezu Mijiro and the newly appointed Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army, Lieutenant General Yukio Kasawara, depressed. In my heart, Senior General Umezu Mijiro, who was already quite dissatisfied with Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, who was called the best chief of staff in the history of the Kwantung Army, was transferred out of the Kwantung Army before the war and served as commander at the headquarters of the First Army.

After getting such a result. Senior General Umezu Mijiro was extremely dissatisfied with the first active military prime minister in the base camp who integrated all the real power positions in the war, and scolded the prime minister more than once in private for being a stupid pig and a stupid person. Even with him, the new chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Lieutenant General Yukio Kasawara, rarely had a good face.

It's just that this Umezu Mijiro general has enough self-cultivation and will not easily expose his inner emotions. His immediate reaction to his dissatisfaction was to order the Kwantung Army's Supply Supervision Department that in the future, all ammunition reserves in Manchuria would not be allowed to be shipped abroad without his approval.

All reserve ammunition, including the Kwantung Prefecture, required his consent if it was shipped out of Manchuria, even if it was a pistol bullet. Furious, Umezu Mijiro clearly told the supply supervisor in front of Lieutenant General Yukio Kasawara that even if the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army agreed.

On the battlefield, General Umezu Yoshijiro demanded that all divisions and regiments on the front line from Chaoyang to Siping should go all out for defensive operations, and that no positions should be abandoned without authorization. All counterattack operations above the brigade level must be approved by the command at the army level. Counterattack operations on a scale above the wing level are not allowed to be carried out without the approval of the Kwantung Army Command.

Umezu Yoshijiro changed the Japanese army's previous style of advocating offensive and not forgetting to counterattack even when the situation was unfavorable, and relied on a large number of various fortifications built before the war to defend the entire line. Such a show of weakness is also a way for him. After fighting according to the usual tactics of the Japanese army, his Kwantung Army blood will really run out.

While adjusting his tactics, in view of the newly invested tanks of the Anti-Japanese Union and the fact that the Japanese army's anti-tank weapons were too powerful to destroy the enemy's tanks, Umezu Mijiro formed a 75-mm anti-aircraft artillery unit in the Higashi-Manchurian region, including the Kwantung Prefecture. All pulled to the Siping and Mukden fronts as anti-tank artillery.

Anyway, after the destruction of factories in Fushun and Anshan, there is nothing left to defend in this area. Anshan and Fushun, which were the main strategic industrial locations of the entire Japanese Empire, are now in shambles. Even if the people of China did not feel sorry for the bombs, they continued to bomb the factory.

But for these anti-aircraft artillerymen, there are no worthwhile targets in the entire Liaodong region, except for the Kwantung Prefecture, that are worth wasting their troops. Rather than wasting these troops in vain, let them sit idle and have nothing to do all day. It is better to take advantage of the fact that the base camp has not yet withdrawn these anti-aircraft artillery pieces and contribute all of them to the greatest use.

These Type 88 and Taisho 14-Year antiaircraft guns are now backward in fighting planes, and they are still enough to fight tanks in terms of power and range. Some time ago, the excellent performance of these anti-aircraft guns in anti-tank proved that these old weapons still have a certain value.

In order to ensure as many front-line combat units as possible, anti-tank artillery with sufficient power was used. Umezu Yoshijiro strictly ordered the technical department to collect all the antiaircraft guns above 75 mm caliber that had been blown up in the weapons depots around Mukden after the Anti-Japanese Union had been looted, as well as in the anti-aircraft defensive positions in Fushun and Anshan, because people did not look down on them and did not take them away.

Use the wreckage of those anti-aircraft guns to piece together as much as possible. The more than 30 anti-aircraft guns of the Type 88 and the Taisho 14th Year were blown into parts, even if they were five pieces of art. In the face of the tank offensive of the Anti-Union, the exhausted Umezu Mijiro thought that even if it was one more door, it would be a little more guarantee to hold the position.

Fortunately, in order to cope with the battle in the Siping direction, the Kwantung Army transferred a considerable part of the weapons stored in the Fengtian Arsenal to the cave warehouse in the rocky mountains of Tieling. There are also 15 or 6 Type 88 antiaircraft guns, five Taisho 14 Type 105 antiaircraft guns, and a batch of armor-piercing and armor-piercing shells used by antiaircraft guns for front-line operations. Although the number is not much, it is enough to support the front line for a while.

In order to deal with the lack of counter-armor and the poor performance of the Japanese anti-tank guns, which could not effectively resist the offensive of the anti-United armored clusters. Searching for anti-aircraft guns that were sufficient for anti-tank missions in order to effectively respond to the armored cluster offensive of the United Nations, Umezu Mijiro can be said to have reached the point of no compromise.

Because he knew that if the tank offensive of the anti-United Nations could not be contained, it would be difficult for the divisions and regiments on the front line to hold defensive positions. The most important thing is that whether it is Siping or the first line of the Juliu River, it is quite close to Fengtian. If the defenders of the Siping Line are surrounded or even lost, it will not only be the most elite part of the entire Imperial Army, but the entire South Manchurian Gateway will be completely opened.

And if Siping is lost, even if he can hold the line of the Juliu River. Then after losing the most elite army of nearly 100,000 in the direction of Siping to the Kwantung Army, Siping and Mukden were also in a position where there were no soldiers to defend. And now that Xinjing has been lost, if Mukden is lost, then the entire Kwantung Army will be completely discredited. He was General Umezu Mijiro, and his career in the army was also coming to an end.

The current battle situation has filled General Umezu Mijiro with a strong sense of crisis. In the opinion of General Umezu Mijiro, whether it is for this war or for himself personally, Mukden must not have any danger, and there must be no accidents in Nanman.