Chapter 7: Bluffing
As for Du Kaishan, who saw that the other brother troops were fighting successively, but he was always waiting in concealment, and he was even depressed and anxious in his heart, and he was reported to be beaten countless times, Guo Bingxun only gave him an order to continue to hide and standby that made him extremely disappointed. However, Guo Bingxun considered the possible direction of the future battle situation, and in order to prevent accidents, he still moved a place for them.
Move their latest hidden standby location south to the northern and central mountainous areas of the Zalut Banner. In order to prevent this guy from watching others fight, Guo Bingxun strictly ordered him to act without an order from the headquarters.
Considering the difference between West Manchu and East Manchurian in terms of topography and landform, Guo Bingxun formulated stricter concealment and standby regulations for Du Kaishan. Du Kaishan was strictly ordered to avoid all residential areas as much as possible on the way south. During the day, marching was absolutely not allowed. All marches were to be made at night.
During the march, in accordance with the regulations of the headquarters, all herdsmen encountered along the way should temporarily move with the army. After arriving at the concealed standby area, the vehicles are camouflaged and the troops are also subject to strict light control. When choosing a hidden area, it is necessary to choose a densely wooded area as much as possible.
At the same time, the troops were strictly restrained, and no one was allowed to leave the unit and act alone. The troops were to keep a tight grip on anyone entering any settlement or herding settlement. If contact with herders cannot be avoided, then all herders should be strictly monitored.
Military control is imposed on the standby areas of the troops, all villages and settlements. During the standby period, all civilians are not allowed to leave the village. If they encounter scattered herders during the march, they are forced to follow the army. When the battle is over, the headquarters will compensate and apologize.
After issuing various orders to the combat units, Guo Bingxun personally convened a liaison meeting with the principal responsible persons of the intelligence, communications, and strategic camouflage departments under the headquarters, as well as Zhang Zhenhua, director of logistics, and directors of the military communications, military stations, and railway communications departments under the logistics department.
At the meeting, Guo Bingxun personally arranged a plan for the transfer of trains to them, and demanded that no less than 10 military trains be mobilized within 12 hours to enter the various railway stations around Mudanjiang and Mudanjiang Station. And this deadline can only be advanced and absolutely not allowed to be postponed.
In addition to mobilizing 10 military trains to enter the stations around the Mudanjiang River, it was also necessary to mobilize another 6 military trains to secretly enter the Shixian Station and Sandaogou Station between Tumen and Wang Qing, as well as the Qushui Station, Weizigou Station, Mopanshan Station, and Xidong Station on the new map line. These six military columns transferred to the vicinity of Tumen must be kept strictly secret by all means.
During the transfer of military trains, passenger trains on the Binsui line can be used as usual. However, it is necessary to control the batch of vehicles, as well as the police on all passenger trains, all of them must be on duty. When the passenger train passes through the military train assembly area, all the curtains of the windows must be pulled down. At the same time, all passenger trains on the Mutu line will stop shipping.
Guo Bingxun's order to the logistics department is a sentence, which must ensure that Tao Jingfei's department can be transferred to other battlefields at any time when needed. However, it is also necessary to cooperate with the General Headquarters and do a good job in masking the real strategic intentions to ensure that the latest operational intentions of the General Headquarters can be realized.
At the operational meeting, Guo Bingxun specifically demanded that all trains transferred to Tumen and Wang Qing should run at night. After the pit stop, do a good job of camouflage. All military trains are not allowed to enter Tumen Station and Wangqing Station, and at the same time, all military trains must be strictly guarded within 1,000 meters of the station where they stop.
At the same time, Guo Bingxun dispatched a group of elite soldiers from several monitoring stations under the Ministry of Communications to carry out radio monitoring in the entire territory of Tumen and Wangqing. At the fastest speed, two radars were airlifted into the territory of Tumen and Wangqing, and a large number of air surveillance posts were deployed.
Together with the original air surveillance network, the entire airspace of the Tumen and Wangqing lines was closely monitored to prevent the Japanese army from sending reconnaissance planes to conduct reconnaissance from the air. For the sake of prudence, Guo Bingxun also ordered the air force to deploy two fighter squadrons at several airports in Mudanjiang and Muling to extend the patrol time and expand the airspace for patrolling.
And ordered the aviation forces to transfer all the bombing forces that had been left on the central front to the western front. With the prince's mansion and Tuquan as the departure airport, he prepared to join the Ximan battlefield. At the same time, the original fighter units, which had already completed the front-line defensive operations on the Songhua River, also began to gradually move westward.
Guo Bingxun's series of bluff-based deterrent actions made General Umezu Mijiro, who was already extremely anxious by the somewhat erosive battle situation in front of him. I was even a little dizzy in my head, and I couldn't figure out what the real combat intention of the Anti-Japanese Federation was for a while.
This continuous move of the Anti-Japanese Federation, especially the sudden disappearance of Tao Jingfei's headquarters from North Korea, and the action of the Anti-Japanese Federation to mobilize a large number of military trains into various stations around the Mudanjiang River, made the general fall into a deep worry. Because he didn't figure out for a while where the Anti-Japanese Federation would transfer these troops.
Although some people think that these actions of the Anti-Japanese Federation are just laying some smokescreen to cover up the real situation that they can no longer fight. If they still have the ability to continue the offensive, why should they send troops in the north of Korea to reinforce other directions? Is it possible to form new troops to participate in the war from the control area, not to mention the great trouble of transferring troops from East Manchuria to West Manchuria?
As early as after the Russo-Japanese War, it penetrated deeply into the entire Northeast, and after the September 18 Incident, it ruled tightly for many years. Although it has lost its right to control, the Kwantung Army can be said to have quite a good understanding of the internal situation in the entire anti-union base area. Even more detailed than the Chinese themselves.
The resources, population base, maximum number of mobilized soldiers, as well as the terrain and landform of the entire North Manchurian can be said to be well understood. Judging from the number of people in the current base areas of the Anti-Japanese Federation and the total number of troops currently on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese Federation, they can tell that the Anti-Japanese Federation has done its best to mobilize troops.
According to the total number of troops they have already appeared on the battlefield, as well as the necessary forces that still need to stay in the rear, it is impossible for them to have a large number of reserve troops that can be replenished on the battlefield. And even if their industry has made great progress in the past two years, its weak foundation also limits the use of weapons on the battlefield.
The Anti-Japanese Union is indeed strong on the battlefield at present, but it is relying on the reserves of pre-war production. All the people did not believe that even if the Anti-Japanese Federation had the ability, it would not be possible for it to surpass Japan's military production capacity in a short period of time, which had been industrialized for decades. With their current industrial capacity, it is impossible to support high-intensity combat for a long time in any case.
Moreover, under the circumstance that the Soviets themselves could not protect themselves and were no longer able to support them, they were able to fight this Cheng Dù with their best efforts. If we continue to attack, it will definitely be difficult to support. The continuous actions they took were intended to conceal their true intentions, which were already exhausted and wanted to turn to the defense on the spot.
However, although most people think that this series of actions of the Anti-United Nations is just a trick made by the Anti-United Nations. However, there are still a considerable number of people who still insist on these things, and still think that the move of the Anti-Japanese Federation must have a deep meaning. They believe that such a large-scale troop mobilization by the Anti-Japanese Federation is certainly not untargeted.
After the battle began, the Kwantung Army's repeated chess mistakes were calculated by the Anti-Union. This time, the Anti-Japanese Federation has come up with such a series of means, and they are bound to have other attempts, and the Kwantung Army is better to be cautious. At this point in the battle, the Kwantung Army, which had already lost more than four divisions and several divisions and regiments, could no longer afford to suffer excessive losses.
In order to solve the problem of whether to fight or defend, the operational meeting held in the underground conference room where the new headquarters of the Kwantung Army in Siping was located had been held for a whole day. But what to do next, but there is no result yet. This situation is the first time for Umezu Mijiro, who has always been known for his decisiveness.
At the venue of this combat meeting, there were almost two distinct factions. One faction is dominated by Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo and Major General Tanaka Shinichi, representatives of the base camp, and hopes that the Kwantung Army will immediately stop the current counterattack that does not outweigh the losses. In particular, Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe insisted that the Kwantung Army immediately stop the counterattack on all fronts.
The two representatives of the base camp insisted that the Kwantung Army stop the counterattack, which was expected by everyone. However, it is hoped that the Kwantung Army will straighten up the current counterattack and immediately withdraw among the various divisions that are fighting fiercely with the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and there are still two people who are extremely unexpected by the rest.
These two people whose attitudes were unexpected by everyone, one was actually Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, and the other was Toshio Nishimura, the director of intelligence. In particular, the opposition of Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, who was the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, shocked almost everyone present.
As the head of the Kwantung Army's top intelligence agency, Nishimura's opposition was not too surprising. Since the start of the war, a series of errors in judgment have put the Nakasa under tremendous pressure. At present, for the various methods of the Anti-Japanese Federation, he is really a soldier, and he would rather believe it than believe it.
One qiē is to be cautious and to preserve the current strength of the Kwantung Army. Regardless of the troops withdrawn from North Korea by the Anti-Japanese Union, they will be deployed in that direction, and those forces that have not appeared, the final destination is there. But the current Kwantung Army can no longer bear the losses of even one division.
Four divisions were completely annihilated, although the losses were smaller than last year's. However, the number of divisions and regiments that have been severely damaged is far greater than last year. The losses of several divisions and regiments after they were heavily damaged last year have not yet been fully replenished, and this time they have suffered heavy losses again, and it can be said that they have been wounded even worse. Although it has not completely lost its combat effectiveness, the decline in combat capability is extremely obvious.
Under the circumstance that the enemy army has drawn a large number of troops to prepare to enter the battlefield of Ximan, and there are still some troops hidden in secret. At present, with the current strength and strength of the Kwantung Army, it is no longer able to turn the tide of the war. If we continue to hold on, we can only pay a greater price and weaken the strength of the Kwantung Army even more.
As for the opposition of Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, who has always cooperated closely with the commander General Umezu Yoshijiro and was called the best chief of staff in the history of the Kwantung Army by Admiral Umezu Mijiro after his arrival, it really surprised everyone who attended the meeting.
No one expected that this Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto would have expressed his opinion before Senior General Umezu Mijiro expressed his position. Even the toughness of the tone and the resoluteness of the attitude are extremely rare. This greatly subverted his impression among the senior staff officers of the Kwantung Army Command.
However, the opposition of the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army was very clear, and his attitude was unusually resolute. He insisted that the Kwantung Army must immediately stop the offensive, withdraw the two divisions on the Linxi battlefield to the territory of Chifeng and Jianping, and use the favorable terrain of the mountains as a cover to hold the area east of the Ye-Chi Railway.