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In the blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed, and the time has come to early October of 1938.
After occupying three towns in Wuhan, the Japanese army divided its forces and captured more than a dozen counties around Wuhan. Immediately afterwards, the 11th Army of Okamura Ningji also arrived in Wuhan along the north bank of the Yangtze River.
However, after occupying Wuhan, the Japanese army did not pursue their victory and continued to expand their offensive.
It¡¯s not that Japan doesn¡¯t want to expand its offensive, but that its industrial base can no longer support it.
To be honest, little Japan has no shortage of troops. It has more than five million reserves and reservists in its own country.
Here is an explanation of the difference between the reserve force and the reserve force in Little Japan. The reserve force refers to veterans who have served but have now retired. They are also called local soldiers. These veterans are married and have children. Most of them have already contracted the bad habit of drinking and gambling, so their fighting will is weak and their fighting ability is generally poor.
Reserve service refers to those Japanese youth who are of appropriate age but have not entered the military service department.
"Little Japan only has 17 permanent divisions and recruits less than 150,000 soldiers every year. It is simply impossible to ensure that all young people of school age join the army.
¡°These Japanese young people who have no chance to serve in the army are young, mostly unmarried, and have not yet contracted the bad habit of drinking and gambling, so they have a strong will to fight and their combat effectiveness is often very strong.
The 101st Division, the 106th Division, and the 116th Division are all composed of reserve personnel. Their combat effectiveness is no better than that of the First Division, the Sixth Division, and the Tenth Division, which are permanent divisions. The Sixth Division was slightly worse.
In short, Japan has a large number of reserves and reservists. As long as the Japanese government issues a mobilization order, hundreds of divisions can be formed in a short time!
" However, to launch a war, it is not enough to have an army. We also need to equip the army with weapons and equipment. Having weapons and equipment is not enough, we must also provide ammunition!
As the old saying goes, a cannon fires a thousand taels of gold!
It can be seen from this that how much ammunition needs to be destroyed and how many resources are consumed to launch a war.
Especially when facing a country with a vast territory and a large population like China, the amount of ammunition and resources that need to be consumed is an astronomical figure!
Although Japan's industrial manufacturing base is much stronger than that of China, after the Sino-Japanese War lasted for a year, its weapons and ammunition reserves have been basically exhausted. In the second stage of the Wuhan Battle, in order to equip more Divisions, and even domestic teaching guns and teaching artillery were pulled out and allocated to the troops.
The artillery regiments assigned to the ten garrison divisions of the Twelfth Army are all mountain artillery regiments, and they still use old-fashioned mountain artillery that have been eliminated by the permanent divisions.
In other words, the Japanese base camp no longer has enough ammunition reserves to supply the Japanese army with launching a large-scale attack, at least in a short period of time.
Because of this, after capturing the three towns in Wuhan, the Central China Front Army stopped advancing.
Not only that, even a considerable part of the Central China Front Army's original ammunition reserves was allocated to the newly formed 21st Army to launch the Guangzhou Campaign.
Compared with the Battle of Wuhan, the scale of the Battle of Guangzhou is much smaller.
By this time, although the Japanese government still refused to admit it, it had actually acquiesced that the Sino-Japanese war had entered a strategic stalemate stage from an all-out offensive stage.
After realizing this, the Japanese base camp quickly adjusted its strategy. On the one hand, it was on the defensive against the Chinese army in Wuhan, while on the other hand, it was accumulating strength and preparing to launch a security war in North China.
Because the Japanese army base camp is increasingly aware that the Eighth Route Army led by the Communist Party of China has replaced the Kuomintang army and has become the biggest threat to the Japanese invaders!
If the Eighth Route Army in North China cannot be wiped out, the Japanese invaders will not only be unable to achieve the strategic goal of supporting war with war, but may even be overwhelmed by endless guerrilla warfare!
Therefore, the Japanese base camp adjusted the sequence of the Japanese invaders.
The Twelfth Army was assigned to the North China Front, and Kosho Takaro was dismissed because of his poor performance in the second phase of the Wuhan Battle. The person who succeeded Kosho Komiro as the army commander was Odaka Kamezo.
In addition, Shunroku Hata, the commander of the Central China Front, was also dismissed due to his poor performance in the Battle of Wuhan. The person who succeeded Shunroku Hata as the commander of the Central China Front was Otsuzo Yamada.
At the same time, the commander of the North China Front also changed, from Juichi Terauchi to Moto Sugiyama.
Nearly the entire top management of the Japanese invaders has been changed. This shows that the Japanese base camp has no regard for the Japanese invaders.??How dissatisfied I am with my performance over the past year or so.
But there was only one person whose performance was recognized by the top brass of the Japanese army.
This person is none other than the commander of the Eleventh Army, Okamura Neiji.
After the Battle of Wuhan, the Twelfth Army was quickly transferred out, but Okamura Neji¡¯s Eleventh Army was left in Wuhan and shouldered the important task of guarding Wuhan!
For Okamura Neji, this is undoubtedly a very serious task.
Because around Wuhan, there are more than a hundred main divisions of the national army watching!
Xue Yue's Ninth War Zone and Bai Chongbei's Fifth War Zone are like two giant beasts peeping at Wuhan's doorstep. The Eleventh Army Group commanded by Li Pinxian is entrenched in the Dabie Mountains. Wuhan is really in danger at this time. It was so confusing that Okamura Neji couldn't sleep the whole night.
However, this old devil Okamura Neji is indeed not simple.
It only took more than half a month for the old devil to sort out the mess.
If we want to ensure the safety of Wuhan, we must first ensure that the logistics support channels are unimpeded.
There are two logistical support channels from mainland Japan to Wuhan, one is the Pinghan-Hankou Railway and the other is the Yangtze River.
Although the Pinghan-Hankou Railway is faster, it is a long way from Peiping to Wuhan, and it also passes through the guerrilla zone of the Communist Eighth Route Army and the defense zone of the Kuomintang Army¡¯s First War Zone. It is extremely dangerous! Therefore, before a decisive victory is achieved in the North China Public Security War, the Ping-Han Railway cannot be counted on.
Then, the Yangtze River waterway has become the only lifeline for the Eleventh Army!
Therefore, the primary task of the Eleventh Army is to ensure the smooth flow of the Yangtze River waterway.
There are two main factors that pose a threat to the Yangtze River waterway. One is the guerrilla army in the Dabie Mountains, and the other is the main force of the Ninth War Zone entrenched from Nanchang to Gao'an.
Compared with the main force of the Ninth War Zone, Li Pinxian's guerrilla army poses a much smaller threat.
Therefore, the first task of the Eleventh Army is to capture Nanchang and eliminate the flanking threat to the Yangtze River waterway from the main force of the Kuomintang's Ninth Theater. After realizing this, Okamura Neiji began to secretly dispatch troops and secretly transport military supplies to Jiujiang and De'an. supplies and prepare to launch the Nanchang Campaign. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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