But the key problem is that for the current Japanese army, especially the Kwantung Army, the number of qualified Cao Chang and Jun Cao is also lacking under the huge casualties last year. Especially Cao Chang and Jun Cao, who are the front-line detachment captains, are more lacking than junior officers.

In order to fill the huge shortage of non-commissioned officers, the Japanese army had to speed up the training of non-commissioned officers. The original two-thirds elimination rate was directly downgraded to at least two-thirds of the people, and basically they could pass the assessment. As a result, the Kwantung Army, including the vast majority of the Japanese Army, is now declining faster than the junior officers.

Although the original number of these non-commissioned officers was huge, no amount of them could withstand years of war damage. Because it is not easy to train a qualified officer, it is not an overnight thing to train qualified non-commissioned officers who are the leaders and generals of the army. And the consequence of speeding up is the decline in quality.

According to the past practice, non-commissioned officers of the Japanese Army, from recruits to corporals equivalent to corporals in other countries, undergo at least eight months of specialized training. And it takes at least six years to be promoted to Cao Chang, who is equivalent to a sergeant. But now, the training period has been shortened from eight months to five months.

The most important thing is that the current Japanese army still does not consider training sergeants from among the veterans. They are still stubbornly recruiting from among the recruits, spending a huge amount of time and energy to select and train non-commissioned officers at all levels step by step. However, the training period for recruits is constantly shortening under the huge demand on the front line and the overall situation of constantly expanding new divisions and regiments to be put into the battlefield.

In this way, a chain reaction is formed. Those non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level, that is, the commanders of the Japanese army, Cao Cao, and Wu Commanders, have declined in level due to huge battle losses and shortened training time. The period for Wu Chang's promotion to Cao Chang is also much shorter than the original.

Before that, it took at least five years for a selected private to be promoted to military officer. During this period, it has to go through special and strict training, as well as extremely strict elimination. At present, as long as privates pass selection and training, there are not a few people who are promoted to military officers within two years.

With such a foundation, the level of junior officers selected from among these people is also declining. I didn't expect it, but now I think of the selection, but I am faced with the decline in the overall quality of the army. The decline in the selection base has also brought about a continuous decline in the quality of the selected lower-level officers.

Even those veteran non-commissioned officers, as well as the equivalent of warrant officers in other countries, Cao Chang, are mostly survivors of the gendarmerie and the rear non-combat units. The officers selected in this way have also affected the decline in the overall combat quality of the reorganized divisions and regiments.

Compared with the beginning of last year, the overall quality of the two Japanese divisions and regiments in western Liaoning has dropped by more than one notch. In particular, the combat quality of officers below the rank of squadron leader has declined greatly. A group of non-commissioned officers were selected and trained by surprise, and then these non-commissioned officers were trained into officers by surprise before they had time to grow up, and it was very difficult for their quality not to decline.

The puppet Manchurian armies of the so-called Iron and Stone Army, Iron Man Army, and Iron Blood Army, which it was attached to, have always been regarded by the Kwantung Army as the most reliable part of the entire Manchurian Imperial Army. However, under the situation of successive defeats of the Kwantung Army, especially after the defeat of Rehe, not only was its morale low, but its equipment and troops were in a state of incompleteness.

Under the premise that the rule of the Kwantung Army in northeastern China was already shaky, the so-called Manchu and Mongolian soldiers in these troops were already unstable. The so-called Manchurian Empire, which was already in turmoil, had long lost confidence. From top to bottom, all people have their own thoughts of finding their way.

Not to mention those so-called Manchurian soldiers and a small number of officers, even those Japanese officers and non-commissioned officers, their morale is also unusually low. The recruits who have been added in have not yet completed their training. Let such a force cooperate with the Japanese army to set up an ambush, Lieutenant General Washizsu Leadhei may have miscalculated.

The advantages of the Japanese army on the front line in western Liaoning were obvious, and they had an advantage in the total number of troops. Moreover, the heavy firepower is better than the face-to-face anti-union and the advance army. Not only were the artillery of the two divisions and regiments complete, but the Kwantung Army also equipped each of the two divisions with a 105 cannon brigade and two squadrons of 150 howitzers.

The artillery of the division and regiment also increased one squadron of 105-mm mountain artillery of the 99th type. In addition, seven separate mortar squadrons were attached. The number of these artillery pieces far exceeded that of Lee Myung-bak, who had only one direct command of the 122nd howitzer battalion and two 100-millimeter howitzer companies.

Since the two divisions left for western Liaoning, except for a small number of battles with the Anti-Japanese Federation after the loss of Chifeng and Chengde, the main force of the division has basically not fought with the Anti-Japanese Federation. Therefore, the current morale of these two divisions can be described as quite high.

Coupled with the superiority in strength and equipment, these two divisions and regiments, which are actually all officers and soldiers at all levels, from officers to soldiers, can be said to be newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers. Seeing that the fight in other directions was very intense, he had been waiting here for a long time, and his hands were already itchy.

It's just that the superficial superiority of the Japanese army has, to a certain extent, concealed its own disadvantage, which is not obvious at the moment. Maybe Washizu saw it, but didn't care. Perhaps he thought that the so-called Manchu soldiers were just a co-operation in this battle.

Or he thinks that these Manchu soldiers, when they cooperated with the Japanese army to sweep on the battlefield in eastern Hebei, their hands were stained with too much blood in the face of the enemy and there was no way out. There will be no results other than fighting to the death. But the Japanese lieutenant general forgot that everything is not so absolute.

He didn't know that there is a saying in China that a rat poop can spoil a pot of soup. In many battles in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad, the losers did not lose in strategic deployment, not in the outnumbering of troops, or in any other aspect, but often failed in these inconspicuous details.

Indeed, these people who aided and abused the Japanese army to slaughter their own compatriots in order to gain glory and wealth, and whose hands were stained with the blood of the anti-Japanese soldiers, did not dare to surrender to the Anti-Japanese Federation or advance into the army. But when they get to the battlefield, they may not be looking for an opportunity to slip away. It's impossible to run home, and many of them have homes that have become non-security zones in the Japanese population, and if they go there, they are looking for their own death.

However, Liaoxi and Redong are very close to Guannai, and it is still possible to run to Guannai to find a way to live. Most of these people, in particular, are proficient in Japanese. After entering the customs, they can either take refuge in the Japanese army in the customs or take refuge in Chongqing, and they can mix a good bowl of rice.

To the south of Jianping, after the Great Wall is the east of Hebei, and then south is Tianjin and Beiping. Compared with the line from Ye Baishou to Fuxin, the Japanese army was on high alert, and the inventory along the way was extremely strict. The slightest suspicion was immediately arrested, and it was difficult for these people to escape. But when they arrived in the Jianping Mountains, in the face of such a large mountainous area, the Japanese army might not be able to take care of these people. As long as you go south, you can get out of the battlefield.

When the entire Nurul Tiger Mountain area has completely become a war zone, who can guarantee that these people will not fall into the side of the Anti-United Nations? As a result of taking it for granted and not taking any precautions, it is easy to be spoiled by these rat feces and spoil the whole pot of soup in his current battle.

As for the quality of the officers, Lieutenant General Washizu is still very confident. Although he also knows that with the transfer of a large number of reserve officers to active duty, and the quality of officers selected through non-commissioned officers has declined to a certain extent. However, he still believed that under the strict training of the Imperial Army, the quality of these officers had a limited decline compared to those who came out of the non-commissioned officer schools.

In particular, the method of selecting officers from among Cao Chang and Jun Cao, which was implemented only last year. The squad leader first-class officer trained by the assault is a little sloppy. But after all, the foundation of the Imperial Army is there, and these people are still more competent as officers at the level of squad leader. Anyway, these people are all squad leaders, even if there are one or two incompetent, it won't have much impact.

The disadvantage of Lee Myung-bak is, of course, that in terms of troops and firepower, he is relatively weaker than the enemy army in front of him. Moreover, the Redong region is a newly liberated area, and the situation is still very unstable. There are still many traitors and spies in the local area, and they have not yet had time to be cleared up, and they are far from being able to become a solid base area.

In addition, during last year's war, the Japanese army forcibly returned to the Redong area. Although the entire Redong area has now been taken down, it will take a few years for it to recover. In this operation, Lee Myung-bak also needs to provide all the supplies from the rear.

The supply line is as long as it is, which is also Lee Myung-bak's most fatal weakness right now. In his war zone, as long as one point is breached, his logistical supply lines will all be interrupted. Even the most basic needs of food cannot be met in the Redong region.

However, his advantages are also relatively obvious, because the two brigades in his hands originally belonged to the formation of the Advance Army, and they were from the Guannai troops who were good at mountain sports warfare, and the cadres at all levels had extremely rich experience in mountain warfare. Fighting this kind of mountain ambush warfare, it can be said that practice makes perfect. The firepower at all levels was also completely arranged in accordance with the light infantry suitable for mountain operations.

The most important thing is that the last remaining division in Lee Myung-bak's hands is the mountain division formed by the Anti-Japanese Federation. All the equipment is equipped to make it more suitable for mountain combat. Although the artillery is organized, there are only two mountain artillery battalions and one 120-mm mortar battalion directly under it, which is not much different from ordinary infantry divisions, but it has many small and medium-caliber artillery and mortars suitable for mountain operations.

Although this mountain division has not yet completed all the training. However, on the battlefields of Chifeng and Redong, it has already undergone actual combat tests. Overall, its performance is quite passable. Although there are still deficiencies in some aspects, the experience of mountain combat is incomparable with that of the two divisions of the Japanese army.

After taking Chengde and Chifeng, the entire Rehe battlefield became the calmest theater in all directions in this battle. Naturally, petty fights between the enemy and us are continuous, but they are basically confined to the battalion and company level, not to mention combat operations at the division level, and even at the regiment level, there are almost no occurrences.

Far from being unusually calm, the troops and subordinate firepower were constantly transferred away in formation, and the subordinate units plummeted to four infantry regiments. This made Lee Myung-bak, who was not an honest man himself, but now could only keep facing the map and taking confrontation on the map to relieve his annoyance, watching his old comrades-in-arms on other fronts fighting in full swing, quite depressed and holding back his energy.

Now that the superior has finally given the order, will Lee Myung-bak honestly wait for the Japanese army to attack? Especially during the standby period in the first mouth, he has been repeatedly checked against various battle plans countless times in his heart. We also conducted repeated reconnaissance of the enemy's situation in front of us. What he is waiting for is this day, if he doesn't come up with some results, how can he stand up in front of his old comrades-in-arms in the future?