Chapter 331: Blindly Optimistic Japanese Army
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Compared with Yang Zhen's calmness, Umezu Mijiro received this telegram from the base camp, but he couldn't hold his breath a lot, and after half a year of preparation, the Kwantung Army finally waited for the 5th, 6th, and 10th divisions to be organized, the newly formed 28th, 29th, and 57th divisions, as well as a large number of new combat vehicles, heavy artillery, and other newly formed troops. 【. netbsp; At the most critical time, a whole division was transferred at once, if you had to transfer other divisions to it, but it was the Fifth Division that was stationed at the forefront and undertook the main attack on the Eastern Front in the scheduled plan, which almost did not make Umezu Mijiro angry.
After all, although the heavy firepower equipment of the Sixth Division that made up for the leakage is a little worse, its combat effectiveness is still above that of the Ninth Division, and with this sixth division, which is known as the strongest in the Japanese army, Umezu Mijiro is also satisfied.
Thanks to the high-level figures in the Ministry of Internal Military Affairs who disliked the poor and loved the rich, although the combat effectiveness of the entire Sixth Army was one of the best in the entire Sixth Army and was on a par with the Second Division, the Sixth Division, which was born in relatively poor Kumamoto, Kagoshima, and other places, did not attract the favor of those high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and the subordinate of heavy equipment could never be mentioned at the same time as the Second and Fifth Divisions.
However, the configuration of its heavy equipment is far inferior to even the soft-footed crab of the Fourth Division, the cavalry wing of the Fourth Division has been changed to a search wing, and the cavalry has begun to replace it with a chariot for 6 consecutive years, while the cavalry wing within the establishment of the Sixth Division is still a cavalry wing, and there is not a single chariot yet.
Compared with the delay in the inclusion of the Ninth Division, Umezu Mijiro was quite satisfied with the transfer of the Sixth Division to the Kwantung Army, and the Tenth Division and the Fifth Division, which had its base camp on standby in Manchuria, were also temporarily allocated to the Kwantung Army, which made Umezu Mijiro very hesitant and ready to annihilate the bandits that brought disaster to Manchuria in one fell swoop.
Although the Fifth Division was semi-disabled by the Chinese government army last year and came to Manchuria to recuperate from its wounds, after all, it was the first mixed infantry artillery and chariot division of the Japanese army, and its combat effectiveness was definitely first-class among the first-class.
In order to restore the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Division, Umezu Mijiro took great pains to incorporate the entire ** garrison into the Fifth Division as a supplementary force after consulting the base camp.
In the final preparation moment, a main division was withdrawn, which is like you are having fun with a beautiful woman, but at the most critical time, this beauty was snatched away by others and left you aside.
This result made Umezu Mijiro, who had always regarded himself as calm, even more hysterical than after the rare defeat of the Japanese army since its formation last autumn, and the unwilling Umezu Mijiro telegraphed to the base camp several times, repeatedly asking that either the Fifth Division be left behind, or that the Kwantung Army be replenished with a division within a month.
Fortunately, the base camp did not do anything wrong, and promised him that within a month, the Ninth Division that was originally transferred to the Kwantung Army according to the plan, but it turned out to be transferred back to China and reincorporated into the Kwantung Army, and the 14th Division, which was only on standby in Manchuria, and was not officially assigned to the Kwantung Army, was also officially assigned to the Kwantung Army.
The compromise of the base camp made Umezu Mijiro feel a little better, but it was good to be comfortable, and the Ninth Division could still take a vacation in Japan, and when it was gathered to arrive in Dalian by boat, and then reach the war zone through the Zhongchang Railway and the Binsui Railway, it would take at least a month, which was still fast, and if it was slow, it might not be able to reach the war zone when.
In desperation, Umezu Mijiro had no choice but to push up the Eighth Division, which was originally stationed in the Muling area and was responsible for the task of responding to the Baoqing front and the second line of the Manchurian-Soviet border in Dongning, to replace the Fifth Division, which had already begun to concentrate and hand over its positions.
Due to the temporary transfer of the Fifth Division and the disrupted deployment of the entire division, Umezu Mijiro had no choice but to postpone the plan to launch the attack after all the ammunition needed in late May, which was originally scheduled for late May, and then moved the whole body away, and it took time to adjust the deployment, and it also took time for the Eighth Division to assemble and transfer.
Umezu Mijiro was indeed quite unhappy that the Fifth Division was transferred before the start of the war, but as Yang Zhen guessed, he never thought that Yang Zhen would dare to attack him first, because judging from the information reported by the intelligence department, although Yang Zhen's bandit department was rampant, its strength was limited.
In the eyes of the Kwantung Army, except for the six field brigades and a small number of key regiments, the rest of Yang Zhen's troops were pure rabble.
Six field brigades, even if each brigade has 10,000 people, but the total strength is only 60,000 people, according to the strength of the five divisions and regiments of the imperial army in the front line at this time, the total number of troops is also greatly higher than them, although the 11th division is only used as a reserve, the fifth division is in the border defense with the eighth division, will be transferred, but this time the imperial army still has the advantage of troops.
For this offensive and suppression, not counting the 11th, 12th, and 29th divisions and regiments in the rear, more than 80,000 troops of four divisions and regiments were concentrated on the front line alone, and this total number of troops was able to deal with the 60,000 bandit troops whose equipment was far inferior to their own.
Due to the strict secrecy of the two sides during the delivery process, and the fact that no troops were allocated after receiving them, all of them were stored in several secret warehouses, and all artillery was still trained with captured Japanese-style equipment, so that the equipment of the artillery directly under the field brigades seemed to be only four mountain and field guns because of a large number of expansions.
The establishment of a dignified heavy artillery brigade upgraded from the original heavy artillery battalion is still equipped with the 12 Taisho four-year 150 howitzers, and more people have become unequipped unarmed artillery after completing their training, and a brigade equipped with only 12 cannons, which is a farce to frighten people in the eyes of any country
These illusions deliberately created by Yang Zhen not only made his subordinates confused, but also successfully concealed the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army, which was known as pervasive, so that from the headquarters of the Kwantung Army to the various divisions and regiments participating in the war, Yang Zhen did not know anything about the large amount of Polish-made weapons and equipment obtained by Yang Zhen from Jiangbei, especially the huge number of artillery.
Although they all admitted that in the battle against the imperial army, this bandit should have captured a lot of the imperial army's standard weapons and equipment, especially artillery, but because they had no production capacity and relied only on capture, the number of their heavy equipment was absolutely limited.
Because the imperial army is not those who can throw everything away in order to escape for their lives, and the brand-new German-made mountain artillery can be thrown on the side of the road without any damage, the imperial army has always had the habit of destroying its own weapons and equipment when defeated, although it lost the battle last year, it will definitely not let them capture many weapons, especially heavy equipment.
The artillery with only four mountain artillery can also be called a battalion, and the establishment of Yang Zhen's troops made the Japanese army laugh off their big teeth, although they already knew that Yang Zhen's department had an arsenal, but the Japanese military high-level still thought that this arsenal could only manufacture some light weapons at most, and don't think about heavy weapons.
Although the idea was tried, it has not been clear what the strange artillery of the other side is, but the previous battles have shown that the opponent's great power, it is likely that the number of new artillery given by Jiangbei is not much, and the imperial army has aircraft to effectively suppress this artillery.
There is a huge gap in equipment, and the front-line troops only have four heavy artillery wings, two field heavy artillery brigades, in addition to the number of large-caliber field howitzers and cannons reaching more than two hundred, there are also four tank wings, as well as a large number of aviation.
With such powerful weapons and equipment, coupled with the concentrated superior strength of the imperial army and the excellent military qualities of the imperial army itself, it is impossible for the other side to take the initiative to attack unless it is dizzy and looking for death by itself, and the attack is still in the final stage of preparation, and the Japanese army is full of blind optimism.
With this idea almost held in mind from top to bottom, and under the premise of turning to the offensive as much as possible, almost all the deployment of the Japanese front-line troops was deployed in an offensive posture, and all the artillery positions, tank assembly areas, and most of the troops were almost not built with strong fire shelters, and they were all bare and exposed to simple field fortifications.
A large amount of ammunition, food, gasoline, and other materials have not been built in any concealed warehouses, and they are stacked on the spot in relatively hidden open places, just covered with tarpaulins, and a large number of cars transporting supplies back and forth have already exposed these so-called hidden places.
Although the guards were also very strong, these guards were only used to prevent vandalism, and their main defense was a few barbed wire fences plus some garrisons and wolf dogs, and the Japanese army did not make the slightest preparation for possible fire strikes from the other side.
This is because in the eyes of the commanders of the divisions and regiments on the front lines of the Japanese army, not to mention the scarcity of heavy firepower, even if there is, under the condition that their own aviation forces bomb the enemy's forward positions several times every day, it is impossible for the opponent's limited artillery to pose a threat to them, not to mention that the positions of these ammunition storage points are basically outside the range of the opponent's small mountain guns.
They do not have long-range large-caliber artillery or aviation, and even if they know their ammunition and material reserve points, they are helpless and have no means to threaten these materials, because their Qiwu Mountain Field Artillery, which has a firing range of only a few thousand meters, cannot hit these ammunition and material reserve points.
If we say that the attention paid to Yang Zhen's subordinates, the Kwantung Army was more tactical, and ideologically, it was still a little underestimated to the enemy, especially when its own firepower was absolutely superior, and the Kwantung Army was full of optimism about this attack.
He believed that this time, with a large number of heavy artillery and chariots to help, and once again concentrated the strength of four divisions and regiments, he had no way to have an advantage in both strength and firepower, and in the face of an opponent trapped in a small area, he would definitely be as devastating as he was on the battlefield in Guannai.
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