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Chapter 838: The Impact of the Battle on the Northern Front (Part 2)

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    The conflict between the base camp and the Kwantung Army has been around for a long time. This war with the Soviet Union is just a trigger.

    In fact, as early as 1933, the Japanese army began to fully prepare for war against the Soviet Union.

    To this end, the Japanese army built an eastern railway from Tumen via Ning'an, Mudanjiang, and Boli to Jiamusi, Yichun, Tieli, and Suihua, and built a railway from Linkou via Jixi City and Mishan to Hutou Town on the bank of the Wusuli River.  Branch lines; in the north, war-ready railways were built via Bei'an and Sunwu to Heihe and from Nenjiang and Huolongmen to Heihe; in the west, the railways from Baichengzi to Aershan via Suolun and Wuchagou were also completed.

    In addition, the Japanese army also built a large number of barracks, warehouses, airports, highways and other military buildings along both sides of these combat-ready railways.

    In the northeastern hinterland, the Japanese army spent huge amounts of money to expand military industry departments such as arsenals and vehicle factories.

    The organization of its troops is organized according to wartime, and several corps-level command structures have been established specifically in the east and north.

    Everything the Kwantung Army needs in its war-ready posture, the country will try its best to solve.  Coupled with the advocacy of Japanese propaganda agencies, the reputation of the "Invincible Kwantung Army" spread almost throughout the world.

    However, such a powerful army suffered consecutive defeats in this local battle.

    In modern warfare, the Kwantung Army had all the aircraft, tanks, and artillery needed to break through the opponent's positions, but none of them had an advantage in actual combat. The central issue of the Kwantung Army's war against the Soviet Union was the attack, and the focus of the attack was to break through each position.  .

    However, since the Kwantung Army directly commanded the Nomenhan operation on June 20, its attacks on the Soviet and Mongolian army positions have been repeatedly frustrated, making its base camp extremely disappointed.

    At this time, the Japanese base camp overstepped its authority and bombed the airport in Outer Mongolia; it refused the Fifth Division stationed in Qingdao to strengthen the Nomonhan area; it used new units like the 23rd Division to resolve border incidents related to Japan's reputation.  Wait, they all have opinions.

    But the Kwantung Army¡¯s arrogant attitude continued unabated.

    They pride themselves on establishing the Puppet Manchukuo and opening up several times the territory for Japan, and they treat its domestic problems in the same way as instructing the Puppet Manchukuo. They regard themselves as Japan's main military force on the mainland and have control over its mainland policy.  They have the final say and are confident; on some major issues, they often use local judgment as a reason to make their own decisions and fight against their own country.

    At that time, the Kwantung Army had become a special and sometimes very difficult issue in Japanese political life.

    The reason for this is not only the Kwantung Army itself, but also the fact that the Japanese military uses the influence of this huge foreign garrison to improve its status in Japanese political life, and sometimes even threatens various domestic circles and influences the policies of the Japanese government.

    After analyzing Japan-Soviet relations and the military situation in the Nomonhan area, the Japanese base camp believes that the fighting there will not stop in the short term.  In order to strengthen the combat command in the area, an order was issued to establish the 6th Army in the Hailar area, with jurisdiction over the 23rd Division, the 8th Hailar Border Guard, and the 1st and 2nd Army Hospitals in the Hailar area.

    Since the establishment of the 6th Army, the contradiction between the Kwantung Army and its base camp has become more and more profound.

    The idea behind the Japanese military base camp is to have one corps specifically organize, plan and direct operations in the area. This single-minded approach is also in line with the Japanese military's historical practice of forming a first-level command structure as needed. After the operation, the corps' units will also  Subsequently, it was cancelled, and all military work of the army was organized and implemented by divisions and regiments.

    Regarding the establishment of a first-level command organization such as the 6th Army, the Kwantung Army believed that from the beginning of the Nomenhan incident, the Kwantung Army had commanded the 23rd Division directly under its jurisdiction.  Due to the defeat in the war, the Sixth Army was suddenly established to isolate the Kwantung Army from direct command. This was a distrust of the Kwantung Army and was intended to embarrass the Kwantung Army.

    In addition, on July 20, in order to study and resolve the Nomonhan incident, the Japanese Army Staff notified the Kwantung Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Isotani Rensuke to return to China to participate in the study.  Discussions were held at the meeting in accordance with the "Incident Handling Outline" prepared in advance. The general idea was that this incident should be resolved locally and locally by this winter at the latest.

    If the goal cannot be achieved by force, it will be resolved through diplomatic channels, and then the troops will withdraw from the area. If the Soviet army invades the disputed area again, it will counterattack according to the situation.

    For air operations, aircraft crossing the border should be attacked. Only when the "manchuria" is bombed can offensive air operations be carried out

    At this meeting, Isotani Rensuke followed his usual strong opinions and believed that so many troops of the Kwantung Army had sacrificed and shed blood for this, and finally abandoned the place and withdrew the troops. He wanted to return to Changchun to ask Commander Ueda Kenkichi to make a decision.  Regarding Isotani's excuse, the Japanese staff officerThe Ministry of War and the Ministry of War were extremely unhappy.

    Due to the policy differences and differences in approaches between the Kwantung Army and its headquarters, the emotional antagonism has also deepened day by day, so that they gradually lost contact with each other.

    From late July to mid-August, the Kwantung Army headquarters and its staff headquarters neither had telephone conversations nor sent telegrams.

    Faced with this attitude of the Kwantung Army, the Japanese base camp was quite helpless. Prince Zain, the chief of staff of the Japanese army, based on the fact that the Kwantung Army headquarters did not maintain normal contact with the general staff headquarters, decided to appoint Nakajima, the deputy chief of staff in charge of operations.  Lieutenant General Tiezang arrived in Changchun, listened to the opinions of the Kwantung Army and communicated with many parties, and finally solved the problem on the surface.

    But during this period, the fighting between the Soviet Union and the Japanese army has been uninterrupted, and the Soviet-Mongolian coalition seems to be organizing a larger-scale counterattack, which makes the Kwantung Army headquarters and base camp quite worried.

    In desperation, the base camp could only order the fifth division with the strongest fighting force stationed in Qingdao to immediately go north to reinforce the Nomenkan direction.

    At the same time, the other three divisions of the North China Front also received news of the assembly and were ready to go north to reinforce the Kwantung Army.

    It can be said that because of the fighting on the northern front, the situation in the entire Northeast and North China battlefield has undergone major changes.

    This change is directly reflected in the Shandong battlefield. Although the Japanese army suffered heavy losses in previous battles, they never retaliated, so that the Sulu Theater and the Shandong Guerrilla Corps actually had time to replenish and rest.

    In addition, because the Sulu Theater fought very well in the counter-mopping campaign in southern Luna and achieved brilliant results, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government focused on publicizing and reporting on this battle. For a time, the names of the Sulu Theater and Yu Xuezhong appeared again.  The headlines on the front pages of major newspapers are extremely powerful.

    As for Li Guoyao, the biggest contributor to this battle, I don¡¯t know if it was intentional or not. All in all, there was not much space. The report just mentioned that the Shandong Guerrilla Corps was ordered to provide reinforcements.

    However, Li Guoyao didn't care about this. After returning to the base area and confirming that the Japanese army would not attack Xiong'er Mountain, Li Guoyao immediately ordered the troops to conduct comprehensive ideological rectification and military training.

    There was no other way. Li Guoyao took a look at the soldiers under his command. There were very few of the old soldiers left. Most of them were rescued national army prisoners and miners, and some were incorporated puppet soldiers and bandits.

    This ingredient is simply a hodgepodge of ingredients, including everything!

    If such a unit wants to ensure its combat effectiveness, it must undergo ideological transformation and rectification, and it must also strengthen training in military skills.

    In order to achieve the effect of improving combat effectiveness, Li Guoyao carried out a large-scale reorganization of his troops. In addition to the original first and second columns, a new three columns were added. Wen Debiao was appointed as the column commander. The troop organization was also the same as the other two columns.  Similarly, it has three infantry brigades and a small number of technical arms, with a total strength of about 5,500 people.

    Later, Li Guoyao made adjustments to the existing technical arms. Among them, the cavalry, artillery and fire support units were expanded. The cavalry column was expanded from two brigades to three brigades, while the artillery unit added a field artillery brigade.  The fire support force has added a heavy machine gun brigade.

    All in all, the strength of each unit has increased a lot.

    After adjusting the organization, Li Guoyao immediately ordered Xu Hu, Wang Zhanhai, and Ma Desheng to each command an infantry column to conduct actual combat training in the east, west, north, and west directions, while he took some technical units to penetrate southward.

    For a time, the Shandong Guerrilla Corps was active everywhere in the entire Lunan area. Although there was no large-scale battle, it scared the Japanese and puppet troops in Shandong area!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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