Predator Reborn

Chapter 582 The reaction of the Japanese Kwantung Army

"Chief of Staff, everyone. Since everyone believes that our Kwantung Army troops should launch a retaliatory encirclement and suppression campaign against the Eighth Route Army troops in the Mengshan area, and let the Eighth Route Army pay blood debts with blood... Then, let me ask you, what is the retaliatory campaign this time?

In the encirclement and suppression operation, our Kwantung Army troops need to directly dispatch how many troops to achieve the final combat goal with the minimum cost of casualties..."

"Um... Your Excellency, Commander, I humbly believe that the Eighth Route Army has just gone through a bloody battle. Although hundreds of thousands of our troops have been completely wiped out, they will also pay a very heavy price... If we take advantage of the Eighth Route Army's vitality, it has not recovered.

If you come across a favorable opportunity and launch an attack suddenly, you will definitely be able to successfully complete the mission without gathering too many troops..." the deputy chief of staff, Major General, said with an eager look on his face...

"Heavy losses... Haha, it seems that everyone here has not really understood our opponent... You must know that our opponent is Liu Hua, who has the title of God of War in the Eighth Route Army. At the same time, this Liu Hua is also a member of the empire.

The number one enemy...Chief of Staff, let me tell you how much the Eighth Route Army paid in casualties in this battle..." Commander General Umezu Mijiro said with a sneer...

"Yes, Commander, everyone. Through my intelligence personnel lurking within the Eighth Route Army, the intelligence just sent back shows that in this battle, the Eighth Route Army suffered about 15,000 casualties. However, only 50% of the soldiers died in the battle.

Forty percent of them are less than 6,000 people..."

"So, the current Eighth Route Army has lost a large number of soldiers after this battle. However, as senior officers, everyone knows that the battlefield is the best training ground. Those remaining soldiers, at this moment, are undoubtedly the most

Elite veterans of hundreds of battles. More importantly, with the addition of anti-Japanese armed forces entrenched in the three northeastern provinces, and a large number of captured weapons and ammunition, they were equipped into the Eighth Route Army. The overall combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army not only did not have any

It has decreased, but it has increased a lot..." The chief of staff nodded, and under everyone's stunned gaze, he said...

"What? The overall combat effectiveness has increased instead of falling. How is it possible..."... "Baga, it's impossible, Chief of Staff, are you mistaken? The Eighth Route Army only paid the price of less than 6,000 killed... Soldiers killed on both sides of the enemy and us.

The ratio is more than ten to one... Impossible, absolutely impossible..." "Chief of Staff, are you mistaken? How is it possible..."...

Suddenly, the faces of more than a dozen officers in the entire command headquarters showed shock as soon as the Chief of Staff finished speaking. One after another, they asked questions in their hearts and asked in disbelief.

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"Baga, this is the Supreme Headquarters of the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army. It's so noisy and unbecoming, so shut up..." I heard the noise and questions ringing in my ears. Commander Umezu Mijiro

The general slammed the table in front of him and roared loudly... After the entire command headquarters regained its tranquility, he opened his mouth and said...

"Everyone, what I want to tell you now is that there is no problem with the data just reported by the Chief of Staff... After this battle, the combat effectiveness of our opponent, the Eighth Route Army, has not declined at all, but has increased... And

All of this is because our opponent has changed from the original Yang Jingyu to the current Liu Hua... I believe that through this death ratio, everyone should be able to clearly understand that our opponent, Liu Hua

It's terrible..."

Seeing everyone looking at him dumbfounded, General Umezu Mijiro continued...

"Everyone, this is not the main thing. The important thing is that the Eighth Route Army now has sufficient back-up troops... In this battle, the Eighth Route Army captured more than 30,000 Manchurian soldiers in the area around Mengshan... I believe

Everyone here knows the loyalty of these Manchurian Army soldiers to me in fighting the Japanese Imperial Army. At the same time, they also know the strong mobilization ability of the Eighth Route Army’s political workers... If nothing goes wrong, these more than 30,000 prisoners will be in the Eighth Route Army’s political workers.

With the mobilization of cadres, at least half of the soldiers will take off their military uniforms and join the Eighth Route Army... At that time, the total strength of our enemy, the Eighth Route Army, will quickly expand to 40,000 people, and they will be well-equipped and have sufficient ammunition.

Forty thousand people…”

As the commander's words fell, the entire command headquarters once again fell into silence... At this moment, the entire command headquarters, except for the commander and the chief of staff, were all thinking about the commander's speech just now and thinking about themselves.

In the future, we will face new opponents...

And just when the atmosphere in the headquarters became more and more solemn as time went by, a confident voice brought everyone back to reality after being deep in thought. A young major general officer,

He stood up confidently and said to the commander and chief of staff in front of him...

"Your Excellency, Commander, I humbly believe that although the Eighth Route Army relied on a strength of more than 20,000 troops to annihilate more than 40,000 of our troops at a very small cost. However, the premise of this battle is that the Eighth Route Army used a lot of tactics to let

After our army fell into a situation of running out of ammunition and food, we launched an attack... I believe that if there is a head-on decisive battle, the 20,000 Eighth Route Army troops will definitely not be the opponent of our Imperial Japanese Kwantung Army troops..."

As soon as the major general's words fell, the eyes of more than a dozen officers, big and small, immediately showed a hint of sharpness. Then, several young officers immediately stood up and agreed with his words. At the same time, they encouraged

The commander in front of me, General Umezu Mijiro, is dispatching troops...

"Since Shigemoto-kun is so confident... then, as for the question just now, I would like to ask Shigemoto-kun, how many troops of the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan should be sent out for this retaliatory encirclement and suppression campaign, so that we can achieve the smallest possible result?

losses, to achieve the ultimate strategic goal..." Regarding the first half of Major General Shigemoto's words, General Umezu Mijiro nodded in agreement. Then, he asked the several major generals and officers in front of him...

As soon as the commander's words fell, the entire command headquarters once again fell into silence... Everyone lowered their heads and fell into thinking... Thinking about the specific number of troops sent by the Kwantung Army

The Eighth Route Army had 20,000 troops, and it was still a poorly equipped 20,000 troops. Under the command of Liu Hua, the empire's number one enemy, it was able to annihilate hundreds of thousands of Imperial Japanese Army troops. Although, in the eyes of these officers, the cunning Eighth Route Army

, using a lot of conspiracies and tricks. However, one hundred thousand troops were wiped out. This is an ironclad fact...

At this moment, the total strength of the Eighth Route Army has reached an astonishing 40,000 people, and it is also a 40,000-strong army that is well-equipped and has experience in large-scale combat... If a 100,000-strong army is sent, as long as the Eighth Route Army responds properly, the result will not be any surprise.

, the 100,000 troops sent out will become a meal for the Eighth Route Army...

So, what about the 200,000 troops... Although the strength ratio reached five to one, it was very difficult for the Eighth Route Army to deal with it... However, with the excellent commanding ability of Commander Liu Hua, the best result that could be achieved was to defeat the fish and defeat the net... And

This result did not achieve the ultimate strategic goal...

After much deliberation, after careful consideration, these officers, big and small, immediately set the specific number of troops to be dispatched at around 250,000... Thinking of this, the young major general officer who had just put forward his own opinion said...

"Your Excellency, Commander, I believe that in this retaliatory encirclement and suppression operation, as long as our army can mobilize 250,000 troops, and with the cooperation of the Air Force, we will be able to annihilate the Eighth Route Army in the Mengshan area and provide for the six who died in the battle.

Ten thousand warriors take revenge..."

"An army of 250,000... Shigemoto-kun, did I hear you correctly... You are also the senior commander of our Kwantung Army, and you have a certain understanding of the deployment of our Kwantung Army's troops. Do you think that we now have the ability to...

Are you going to assemble an army of 250,000 in a short period of time and restart the encirclement and suppression campaign against the Eighth Route Army?" The commander shook his head and asked helplessly...

"But... Your Excellency, Commander..." Although Major General Shigemoto wanted to refute the Commander's rhetorical question, he swallowed it hard as soon as he said the sentence.

Because what the commander said is very correct, the current Kwantung Army troops, facing enemies from both sides and back, have no ability to assemble an army of 250,000 in a short period of time...

At this moment, although the Kwantung Army has millions of troops... However, in order to defend the west, the Far East of the Soviet Union, the headquarters of the hundreds of thousands of elite Red Army troops led by Marshal Zhukov... has to mobilize nearly half of the Kwantung Army's strength.

, hoarding them on the border, confronting the Soviet Red Army in order to deal with possible accidents...

At the same time, in order to prevent the hundreds of thousands of main troops of the Northeast Field Army of the Eighth Route Army from leaving the customs and entering the three northeastern provinces... almost 200,000 Kwantung Army soldiers, Chen Bing was on the front line of Shanhaiguan, waiting for the arrival of the Northeast Field Army of the Eighth Route Army... This force, like Chen Bing, was

Like the 500,000-strong army on the border, no movement can be made...

There are more than one million troops, minus the 500,000 on the border, the 200,000 at Shanhaiguan, and the 60,000 troops that were just wiped out... At this moment, there are only more than 300,000 left... However, these three

The more than 100,000 Kwantung Army, facing the huge three northeastern provinces, had to dedicate a large number of troops as local garrison...

Calculated in this way, at this moment, the Kwantung Army Headquarters has less than 100,000 mobile forces that can be mobilized immediately... And if these 100,000 people are used to attack, it will be like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth.

Add more achievements to those Eighth Route Army troops...

Thinking of this, the faces of more than a dozen senior officers immediately showed frustrated looks. In the end, they all lowered their heads and said nothing...

Seeing the silence among the officers, the commander knew that his essay had achieved its effect... and now, what he had to do was not to make everyone lose confidence in the future of the Kwantung Army. Thinking of this, General Umezu Mijiro, again

Once he spoke...

"Everyone, now you should understand the specific reasons why I have always disagreed and now dispatched heavy troops to launch a retaliatory encirclement and suppression campaign against the Eighth Route Army..."

"Hai, your Excellency, Commander, is wise..." More than a dozen officers replied in unison, nodding and bowing at the same time...

"Everyone, although we currently do not have enough capabilities to completely annihilate this Eighth Route Army unit. However, the three northeastern provinces are the rear area of ​​the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Empire. Under the current situation that our Kwantung Army is surrounded by enemies from both sides, we absolutely cannot tolerate this.

This force is developing unscrupulously in our rear area first. Therefore, what we can do now is to blockade this force in the Mengshan area... Now I order..."

As soon as Commander Umezu Mijiro finished speaking, a dozen officers, big and small, immediately raised their heads and stood in front of the commander, waiting for the order to arrive...

"The three main divisions reinforcing Baishan County will immediately stop advancing and return to the starting point along Shanhaiguan... In the area around Mengshan, the garrison troops at various county strongholds will immediately shrink their defenses, concentrate their forces, and defend all strategic locations and important areas.

County seat to prevent the Eighth Route Army from expanding outward..."

"The 27th and 28th Divisions of the Kwantung Army immediately assembled to assist the local defenders, blockade all major transportation routes to the outside world in the Mengshan area, and blockade the Eighth Route Army troops in the entire Mengshan area...

As long as the time is right, we can mobilize heavy troops and launch a new round of retaliatory encirclement and suppression operations..." Looking at the dozen or so officers in front of him, the commander, General Mijiro Umezu, ordered with a serious face...

After several days of continuous fighting in the Mengshan base area, all combat troops, including all anti-Japanese armed forces willing to join the Eighth Route Army, immediately dropped all the equipment they were carrying and got into the base area.

After entering his barracks, he began to fall asleep deeply to replenish the energy he had consumed during the few days of fighting...

In less than a few hours, in the dense forest, in the huge military camp, except for the sentries who were constantly patrolling, the entire military camp could only hear the sound of sleeping sounds...

At the highest headquarters of the Shimenling base area, Commander Liu Hua, Deputy Commander Yang Jingyu and others also began to rest as soon as they returned to the base area...

At this moment, almost a night has passed since the troops returned to the base... However, due to the fatigue of the long battle, none of the commanders and soldiers who had rested for the night woke up and were still in a deep sleep.

In this peaceful and quiet military camp, a cavalry soldier, riding a fast horse, quickly rushed into the military camp... After being inspected by the sentry at the door, the cavalry soldier did not stop for a moment and was immediately stunned.

They rushed towards the high command headquarters in the base area not far away...

"Commander, deputy commander, the latest news from the intelligence personnel..." I rushed into the headquarters and saw the two commanders and the panting intelligence staff wearing military coats and sitting on stools, seemingly waiting for them.

, without enough time to take a breath, he quickly replied...

"Tell me, we wiped out a total of 60,000 Japanese soldiers. After knowing this news, what happened to the Japanese Kwantung Army? Are they preparing to retaliate against us..."

"Commander, this is the latest news that our army has just broken into the Japanese Kwantung Army's internal intelligence personnel... The Japanese army did not launch a retaliatory encirclement and suppression operation as usual due to insufficient troops. It only gave everyone around Mengshan

The garrison troops at the county stronghold issued an order to shrink their defenses, concentrate their forces, and guard all traffic arteries in an attempt to seal us in Baishan County... At the same time, the Japanese army deployed two main divisions, the 27th and 28th divisions.

Strength, reinforce the Japanese garrison troops around us, and block our army in the Mengshan area..."

"Commander, you are really right. The current Japanese Kwantung Army has millions of troops. However, now they are too focused on the head and the tail. After losing three main divisions, they can't be mobilized at all.

If we don't have any extra troops, we will be surrounded and suppressed..." Just as the intelligence staff member finished speaking, deputy commander Yang Jingyu showed an excited look on his face, and said with a smile on his face to Liu Hua beside him...

"To the west, the little devil has to guard against the hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army troops. To the south, he also has to guard against the hundreds of thousands of main troops of the Northeast Field Army who may leave the border at any time and enter the Northeast... At the same time, the three huge northeastern provinces are still small.

The Japanese have mobilized a large number of troops as local garrison forces... This time, he can mobilize two main divisions to deal with us, which is already very good..." Liu Hua pointed to the battle map in front of him and said with a smile...

In fact, in his heart, he knew that there was another crucial reason why the Japanese Kwantung Army did not dare to send troops, and that was that the Pearl Harbor incident was about to break out... With the outbreak of the Pearl Harbor incident, the Japanese Kwantung Army troops with first-class combat effectiveness

The Japanese Kwantung Army will definitely mobilize a large number of troops to participate in the southward plan... Therefore, at this moment, the Kwantung Army headquarters has to concentrate the troops in its own hands and send troops at any time to participate in the southward plan...

Of course, since this incident did not happen, Liu Hua, as the commander, could only bury it deeply in his heart...

"Commander, since the Japs don't plan to provoke us in a short period of time... then should we immediately carry out the initial stage in the next stage and expand the existing base area..." Yang Jingyu suggested...

"It is necessary to expand and develop the base area. After all, only with a stable rear area can we fight the Japanese army without any worries... However, our top priority now is to rest and recuperate... After the troops have rested and reorganized, we will carry out various

The combat troops undergo a unified reorganization... Only when the troops reach full strength can they form combat effectiveness..." Liu Hua nodded and said...