Anti-Japanese War: When I get promoted, the system will explode with soldiers

Li Shaoyi, who was in Tianjin at the moment, also received the telegram and was also quite troubled.

The reason for the headache is also very obvious, that is, the territory is expanding too fast. If the territory is hardware, then the troops under your command are software. The software cannot keep up with the expansion speed of the hardware. If you don’t have a headache, who will?

If the Japanese had not invaded Tianjin on a large scale, or if Li Shaoyi had been given another six months to a year, the current situation would have changed dramatically. Unfortunately, the Japanese are not under your command. They can do whatever they want whenever they want, and we can only respond passively.

The north is their rear area, and they absolutely cannot afford to lose it. Moreover, they have spent so much effort to take back the Xiongnu grassland. If it is occupied by the Russians, they will never stop there. According to their greedy ambitions, they will definitely continue to advance southward, and perhaps even Chahar will not be able to be preserved.

"Reporting to the Marshal, our spies in the Northeast have reported that a division of the Kwantung Army, plus an independent brigade, has been reorganized in Eastern Liao. They will board the train before tomorrow night. Their destination is not North China, but a port in Korea."

When Li Shaoyi was having a headache, his subordinates brought him an even more troublesome piece of news. The number of Japanese troops currently in Tianjin has already exceeded the same period in history, and the number is still rising. Li Shaoyi felt that the Japanese were a little crazy.

According to Li Shaoyi's previous idea, the Japanese suffered too heavy losses in Tianjin, which might delay the attack here. Li Shaoyi killed and wounded so many Japanese soldiers that he might continue to stalemate with the Japanese here, and then continue to wear down the Japanese's fighting spirit without increasing the number of troops.

Even if the battle of Pujiang broke out, Li Shaoyi would be able to hold on to two battlefields. Now it seems impossible. The Japanese are determined to capture Tianjin. Even though they have lost so many troops, the Japanese have no place to retreat. Instead, they are constantly increasing their troops.

"Is the Northeast's defense very weak?"

Li Shaoyi looked up at Miss Gu and said, "If that's the case, then can we do something behind their backs?"

"The facts prove otherwise. Northeast China already has a large number of retired Kwantung Army soldiers. Although their combat effectiveness is inferior to that of active soldiers, they have just been discharged from active service, so if we call them back, we will have no problem maintaining local law and order. Moreover, most of the troops sent by the Kwantung Army are in the eastern Liao and northern Manchuria areas. The troops deployed on the Rehe border have not moved at all. If we want to launch a surprise attack on them, the success rate is not high."

Miss Gu knew Li Shaoyi's idea and shattered Li Shaoyi's fantasy without hesitation. Japan and Luosha were in a honeymoon period. Luosha was now fully assisting Japan to tie down our 200,000 troops in the north in the border area, so that Japan could free up its hands to fight Li Shaoyi to the death in Tianjin.

Of course, the Luoshas were not doing voluntary labor. They were looking at the future. When Li Shaoyi suffered heavy losses in Tianjin, they might send troops across the border to retake the Xiongnu grassland in one fell swoop. Because Li Shaoyi had caused them huge losses, after occupying the Xiongnu grassland, they might also plunder several southern provinces.

So in this situation, don't think about starting a war in the north easily. Being able to maintain the current situation is already quite friendly to Li Shaoyi.

"It's really damn true. There's no end to the beatings and the killings."

While the two were talking, Zhao Tiezhu came in angrily from outside, and his face looked unhappy.

"Japanese reinforcements have arrived?"

Li Shaoyi knew the reason without asking. During the battles for several consecutive days, each unit killed and injured Japan's manpower according to Li Shaoyi's requirements. The combat objectives were indeed achieved, but Japan mobilized most of the merchant ships in the country and began to transport soldiers quickly. No matter how hard we killed every day, they could always replenish new soldiers. So Zhao Tiezhu went out for a walk and felt that all his efforts in the past few days were in vain.

"How many soldiers do these Japanese have? In just the past few days, we've killed 30,000 to 40,000 of them. This is a significant loss for Japan as a whole. Although we didn't wipe out an entire division, which Japanese division currently fighting in Tianjin can still be said to be intact? They should be afraid, but these guys are not afraid at all and continue to send more troops. Go out and look at the battlefields. The corpses that were scattered all over the ground yesterday were buried on the spot overnight, and the trenches are once again filled with new recruits."

Zhao Tiezhu said speechlessly.

"We received news five days ago that the Japanese have just formed fifteen new divisions. Some of them have previously undergone military training, and some are retired military personnel. Compared to the current Class A divisions, these people's combat effectiveness is only about 70%. After training, it should be able to reach 80% to 90%."

As the head of the intelligence department, Miss Gu told everyone all the information she had collected about Japan's troop reinforcements in recent days. There was no need to hide anything when facing these two people, as both of them had extremely strong psychological endurance.

"This is a total war, and a total war requires a nationwide mobilization. I originally thought that Japan's national mobilization would come later, at least after the war in Pujiang began. Now it seems that I really underestimated their determination."

Li Shaoyi snorted coldly and slowly came to the front of the sand table. At this moment, there were eight or nine Japanese reorganized division numbers around Tianjin City, as well as many independent brigades and detachments.

Li Shaoyi realized that he had fought the Battle of Shanghai in Tianjin in advance. The difference was that during the Battle of Shanghai, warlords from all over the country flocked to the city, and the military power of an entire country was confronted. However, in Tianjin, apart from Li Shaoyi's 72nd Army, there were really no other troops.

The main reason was that this place was originally the territory of the 29th Army, and the 29th Army did not allow other troops to enter. The Central Army also wanted to teach Li Shaoyi a lesson because he disobeyed discipline. Of course, the most important point was that after many war game simulations, the Central Army believed that Peking and Tianjin could not be defended at all, and sending troops to support them was tantamount to throwing money into the fire.

In their view, Li Shaoyi's achievements today were far better than originally expected, but in the end, he still couldn't hold the territory. There was really no point in deploying troops to a piece of land that couldn't be held...