Canteen System Assistance Notes

"Even if the Tanaka Army were to temporarily recruit Japanese expatriates, the muskets and artillery they need wouldn't grow in the ground." Okamura Yasuji pressed his hand against his temple. To be honest, the North China Army had already begun using captured equipment produced in branch factories. "The Shimen-type small gun, the Shanxi Province Yan-type mountain cannon... and even the ancient Sanyi-type field gun have all been deployed. Are you really going to let the North China Army use cannons and rifles?"

"How difficult is that? Didn't the North China Army seize 50 million silver dollars from the Nationalist government in Tianjin? With so much silver in their pockets, if they need weapons, they can just go back home and buy them. What's the difficulty?" Puff—cough cough cough, cough cough cough!

Okamura Neiji was immediately glad that he wasn't drinking tea, otherwise he might have spit out a mouthful of water on the table!

If you have the money, just go buy it. That's easy to say! And what's wrong with saying that? He even dared to mention the preserved fruit's bank deposit in Tianjin! How many "big guys" are watching this money? Even I have no right to ask! How can this be something you can just say?!

What's more, if you have money, you can buy weapons from the country? What a joke! Guns and cannons can't grow from the ground in China, so how can they be grown in the country? Putting aside other things, if the Empire had the factories and production capacity of the European countries, would the current war situation still be like this?

"Mr. Okamura, I have heard that the Communist Army in Shandong Province consists of only five or six Chinese divisions. The rest are weak guerrilla units armed only with small guns and cannons, and are not to be feared by the Imperial Army.

"In this way, our army only needs to gather a large force, advance from the north and south, open up the Jinpu Road, and then unite with the Chinese Front Army, attack from the sea and land at Jiaotong and Weiyang in Shandong Province. Coordinate with the large forces along the Jiaoji Railway, deploy on both wings and launch a concentric attack. Wouldn't Shandong Province be conquered with a single order?"

Facing Tanaka Shinichi who turned around and pointed at the map, Okamura Ningji finally couldn't help it. He smiled and replied: "Tanaka-kun

This is truly a genius plan!

“It would be better to have the entire Imperial Army withdraw from Shanxi and Henan Provinces, concentrate on defending the area around Hebei Province, and capture Shandong Province.

"After reducing our forces and our defense zone, the remaining Imperial Army will be sufficient to withstand the Communist invasion and harassment. All the troops needed for this offensive can be raised by the North China Front Army itself, without the need for further supplies from the headquarters." "That's too... What? What? Lord Okamura!"

Tanaka Shinichi even uttered a half-sentence of praise, but after all, he was not illiterate and understood the meaning of what Okamura Neiji said. The next second, he plopped onto a chair and jumped onto the headquarters table, eyes wide open, and shouted loudly.

"Sir! How could you possibly give up Shanxi and Henan provinces? Is this your attitude towards war and the Continental Order?

"The attack on Lu Province is an order from His Majesty! It concerns the fate of the Empire! Are you planning to desert, Your Excellency Okamura Yasuji? Please take responsibility!"

Chapter 592: An Overview of the Japanese Army in North China

(Chapter review)

Take responsibility.

Just five words were as heavy as a mountain to Okamura Yasuji at that time.

This statement represented the core demand of headquarters' orders. On a more limited level, it was to eliminate the possibility of a heavy bombing raid from Shandong Province; on a more general level, it was a hint that someone was displeased with his previous "tanking" behavior, but with no alternative or punitive measures to deal with him, they could only resort to this indirect "knocking."

Okamura, after all, had his own network of contacts, and he wasn't afraid of such criticism. But if he still wanted a safe and secure retirement as a reserve—Okamura Neiji realized he had long since given up on a dignified retirement like serving as a military councilor—he probably couldn't escape it this time.

In other words, an attack must be launched.

"Taking due responsibility is a soldier's natural duty." "However, due responsibility should be accompanied by due conditions." He turned his head to glance at the map on the wall and said:

"Please convey to headquarters that for this operation, the North China Army hopes... no, this front army hopes to obtain higher-level coordination, rather than relying solely on the North China Army to fight on its own."

"Not enough troops! Not enough troops! We haven't ended the Sino-Japanese War yet, and yet we're just rushing south." After half-driving Tanaka Arata out of the headquarters, Okamura Yasuji muttered to himself in a voice barely audible to others. He lamented, "Attack, attack Shandong Province! Where will we get the troops from?"

What is the current state of North China, and even the Sino-Japanese battlefield, and what is its current situation?

If this question had been used as a test, Okamura Yasuji might not have been able to answer it completely and adequately, but there's no doubt that he would have been the highest-scoring senior Japanese commander at the time. However, even as cunning as Okamura was, he could only point out the problem and was unable to go any further.

At the westernmost point of Japanese-held North China, the Yellow River—no, the Jin River valley beneath the Lüliang Mountains in Shanxi Province—was now the westernmost region firmly under Japanese control. Here, the First Army, centered in Jinyang, hunkered down along the Zhengtai and Tongpu lines, defending this "sausage belt" stretching from Shuozhou to the north and Yuncheng to the south, running through Shanxi Province.

This area is the core and primary grain-producing area of ​​Shanxi Province, boasting abundant coal reserves, capable of producing the black gold essential to the Empire. Furthermore, the First Army was the first to learn from the Central China Army's "broker-manager" combat experience. By establishing "farming squads" to cultivate land within the "absolute control zones" surrounding strongholds, cities, and key transportation routes, they were able to alleviate some of the troops' food shortages in 1941, allowing them to have relatively adequate food.

However, this was not without cost. Even the First Army itself felt that its combat effectiveness was plummeting: with several years of security operations, veterans returning home, and occasional new recruits, the army was filled with more and more new recruits, and their quality was declining. Experienced sergeants had either deserted and returned home, or deleted their accounts and returned to Kudanzaka.

There is no way to improve your quality, but...

Increasing the amount of training will require soldiers to eat more food, which will aggravate the food crisis; increasing combat and replacing training with combat will lead to a sharp increase in losses; taking both approaches at the same time will reduce the manpower available for the "farming class", resulting in even less food production.

Trapped in a strange cycle, the First Army could only turn a blind eye to the Eighth Route Army's brazen "sneak crossing" on the railway, and then pretend not to hear the Eighth Route Army sharpening its knives in Yunzhong and Hejin areas, in order to maintain its last bit of "decency".

Ah, Mr. Okamura, deploying mobile forces to conduct operations in Shandong Province? What are you talking about? Hahaha, the weather is really nice today, hahaha...

From Shanxi Province to the east, the Japanese army also had a hard time.

Although the Pinghan Railway, stretching from Zhangyuan and Beiping to Zhengxian, was the Japanese army's last nominally unobstructed north-south line in North China, this vast area, stretching 8 to 8 kilometers, was actually garrisoned by only eight divisions, some of which were supported by the Central China and Kwantung Armies. Even though the Japanese army could move north and south along the railway, giving them a limited advantage in mobility, these eight divisions were often severely understaffed, making it difficult to even maintain a semblance of a blockade.

In short, they became more of a "city garrison" and could no longer prevent the Eighth Route Army's rear from supporting the base areas in the plains via railways.

Okamura Yasuji knew that from the Haituo River region to the north and the Xinxiang region (the future Hebi region) to the south, large numbers of animal-drawn carts, motorized vehicles, and a combination of these passed through almost weekly, continuously transporting supplies eastward. The surrounding Imperial Army, and even the Imperial Army, had become part of maintaining this passage—those who dared to oppose it had largely vanished, so the remaining forces generally did not oppose it.

Previously, whenever the Imperial Army attempted a large-scale offensive, the Communist troops along the railway would disappear without a trace, and then once they left the railway line for 10-15 kilometers (depending on the range and mobility of the field artillery carried by the troops), the Imperial Army would suffer a severe blow - but no matter what, the food in the area 10 kilometers along the railway line could still be guaranteed to be collected.

Now, if the Imperial Army attempted a large-scale offensive, they would be attacked as soon as they left the city. "The area where the grain collection campaign was successful had been compressed into a ring around the city; more precisely, it had shrunk back to the inner side of the ring of trenches surrounding the city.

Huddled in the trenches, these Japanese soldiers gazed out at the hazy fog and darkness outside, feeling the pitch-black unknown. Combined with the "anti-Japanese trenches" dug by the Eighth Route Army within the base area, it seemed as if the European battlefields of World War I were being replayed here.

Therefore, these troops directly under the North China Army did not even have time to ask General Okamura Yasuji for support or reinforcements, so how could they have mobile forces to deploy to attack Shandong Province? As for the 12th Army in Shandong Province...

啊，自从在"冀中横断作战、"德州战役"和潍县作战之后，12军的第32师团已经只剩下2个大队左右的残兵，第54师团（原独混5)被消灭了三分之一有余，第55师团师(独混6)）还欠着两个半大队的空缺没填.….全靠华中支援过来的第66师团（前独混17）和22师团协防，才勉强让守备区不至于崩溃。

In this way, the commander of the 12th Army, Lieutenant General Tu Ju, had to voluntarily give up Rizhao and semi-voluntarily give up Langya....

What's more... Cang County has not been recovered yet, and the section of the Jinpu Line from Dezhou to the south of Jinmen is still interrupted.

How many personnel, equipment, and supplies did the Eighth Route Army send to Shandong Province?

Is it possible to give up some areas in a planned way to alleviate the pressure of insufficient troops?

"This method is theoretically feasible, but...Mura Neiji twirled a pencil, but within seconds, it slipped from his fingers and fell onto the table. The staff offered numerous proposals, but none of them met his standards. Withdraw from northern Shanxi? Then, in the next second, the Eighth Route Army would burst through the Sanggan River defenses, rushing down the railway unhindered, into the Xinzhou Basin, and then crushing the city of Jinyang from behind."

Withdrawing from southern Shanxi? This was probably out of the question. Regardless of what would happen if they did, the Eighth Route Army in the Hejin Triangle next to southern Shanxi would probably not let the Japanese retreat easily. The only plausible option was to withdraw the already exhausted 35th Division from the Changzhi Basin.

Withdraw from the Jinzhong area? Damn! What's the point of giving up Jinyang and keeping southern and northern Shanxi? Then why not find troops in Jin Province? I'm afraid that won't work either.

If Zhangyuan is abandoned, it means that the entire defense circle of Peking will be broken; if the area around the Pinghan Line is abandoned, the last railway line connecting the North China Front Army to the south will be cut off. Moreover, if the Pinghan Line is broken, what is the point of staying in Shanxi Province?

After much deliberation, Okamura Neiji felt that if he wanted to trade space for manpower, the best approach would be to withdraw troops from all of North China and then defend Xingcheng and Rehe. However, he could only entertain this idea in his head.

Although when making this report, Okamura Yasuji had instructed his staff not to consider "unspeakable factors" for the time being, but in the actual implementation,

Political factors must also be considered.

Finally, after some careful consideration, Okamura Yasuji discovered that, aside from his own 27th and 56th Divisions (formerly the 7th Independent Mixed Division), which had gone to Manchuria for reorganization due to heavy losses, the only mobile force he had at his disposal was the "4th Cavalry Brigade," reorganized from the remnants of the Mechanized Brigade of the 4th Special Mixed Brigade. The registered troops totaled around a thousand cavalry and a thousand infantry. They used Shimen rifles, captured Czech machine guns, and Jin-made mountain cannons...

Anyway, no matter what, you should at least provide me with two more divisions, right?

Whether it's the Kwantung Army or the newly established ones on the mainland... Otherwise, the North China Army might not even be able to organize a decent offensive!

Chapter 593: 101's Assets

In his original time and space, Lin Husan's command style was generally considered cautious and thorough. He was meticulous in planning and calculation before battle, and in battle, he emphasized a "two-pronged approach," often employing exhaustive calculations and always maintaining a hand and reserves capable of changing the battlefield situation. He remained patient and refrained from deploying troops unless absolutely necessary. This style of operation was vividly demonstrated during the Liaoshen Campaign of the War of Liberation, leading to a popular saying: "If Lin Husan says a battle can be won, then it will be won."

However, from another historical perspective, nothing is created out of thin air, and the style of 101 is also formed based on his command experience.

Among these experiences, the Battle of Siping has special significance.

Whether it was the failure to hold out due to being crushed by the superior forces of the National Army, or the lack of momentum when "victory was in sight" during the third battle of Siping, and being driven out of Siping by the National Army and suffering heavy losses during the retreat, the Battle of Siping had a profound impact on the 101st, who was plagued by gunshot wounds. His "exhausting all means and making every possible effort", and even his somewhat "conservative" fighting style, was also influenced by this and gradually took shape.

So, in this time and space, will the 101st, which is always active in the front line of the war against Japan, return to the inertia of history? Under the joint influence of him and Luo Shenzhen, what kind of style will the "Shanye" established earlier bring?

If the Northwest Field Army, originating from the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Campaign, and the Shanxi-Suiyuan Field Army, which was heavily influenced by it, were more adept at organizing infantry-artillery and infantry-tank coordination, collaborating closely with the Air Force, and emphasizing the seamless integration of firepower layers and the organic synthesis of infantry, artillery, vehicles, and tanks, then the "mountains and wilds" of the far-flung Shandong region possessed a more rational, scientific, and reckless style.

As the saying goes, "We're not afraid of hooligans who are unreasonable, we're afraid of hooligans who are educated." All tactics are carried out by soldiers. Therefore, compared with other anti-Japanese bases outside the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, the Shandong Province base paid more attention to the training of new recruits and the rectification of new troops.

Slightly different from other bases, the Shandong Province base wasn't "surrounded by enemies." Even leaving aside the several canteen branches, the Shandong Province Anti-Japanese Base in this time and space boasted ample and vast stable areas, productive agricultural reclamation areas, and a sufficient population reserve, capable of supporting large-scale troops.

Furthermore, Shandong Province had the support of General Luo, a prominent figure in politics, personnel, management, and operations. Beginning with the advance into Shandong Province in 38 and 39, the Anti-Japanese Base Area in Shandong Province launched a vigorous military training campaign. Drawing on the successful "Six-Month New Training Method" implemented in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, they developed a new training manual tailored to Shandong Province's characteristics. While appropriately extending the duration of cultural and political education, the advancing troops, led by Luo Shenzhen, promoted a number of advanced political work and training methods, including the "grievance method" and the "Eight-Point Teaching Method," and generously shared them with other base areas.

This ensured that the troops sent from the Shandong base area possessed excellent combat and cultural qualities. On the battlefield, the new recruits were able to follow orders, seek cover, and refrain from firing indiscriminately. Under the guidance of veterans, they could implement the "three-person group, four-person team" tactics. Off the battlefield, they observed and learned from the masses, maintaining a high level of enthusiasm. After cadres from other base areas came to observe and learn, they all commented, "The soldiers from Shandong Province are well-trained, just as good as those from the border areas."

With such a strong troop base, the Shandong base area performed exceptionally well in receiving and utilizing technical equipment. They not only successfully employed the Type 82 rifles and Type 82 high-pressure and low-pressure rifles provided by the central government, but also trained their own barreled artillery using captured Japanese guns. After the February Incident, when the border region's arsenal capacity was fully unleashed, they were among the first to complete the mass production of the domestically produced American-made M1 mountain guns and establish combat effectiveness.

Therefore, in the process of moving from the Eighth Route Army in Shandong Province to regularization and field army formation, by the beginning of 1942, the eight "mountain field" divisions had basically reached the "Class B" field army standard designated by the central government, and some had reached the "Class A" field army standard. Excluding local combat units and militia units, the troop strength was close to 160,000.

Each field army was able to establish a 12-gun mountain artillery battalion, distributing the 82mm mortar, 82mm no-barrel, and 60mm mortar to units below the regimental level. For example, the 1st Mountain Division, commanded by Xu Heshang and Yin Guizhang, boasted the best personnel and the highest technical and tactical proficiency. At Xu Heshang's instigation, they fully exploited the potential of the battalion's command company, organizing a total of four 6-gun batteries, commanding 24 artillery pieces.

At the same time, Shanye also gathered 75mm field guns, including the Type 90 and Type 38 field guns captured from the Japanese, and trained them into several artillery regiments directly under the field army, which were short on guns but not short on men. These guns, along with the British-made "Weicks 25-pounder" guns transported across thousands of miles after the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign in central Hebei, would provide the Shandong field army with operational-level firepower preparation.

More importantly, apart from the newly arrived 25-pound artillery shells that temporarily require central support, based on the supply of Tianjin, Shandong Province's industrial and mining industries and the "material center", the factories located in the Bohai District, Jiaodong District and several military sub-districts in southern Shandong are already able to produce infantry and machine gun ammunition, turtle boxing, mortar ammunition, and reload Japanese and American mountain artillery shells. Unlike those smaller bases, "1 Mountain 1 Field" can bear a considerable amount of combat consumption on its own and has a higher degree of freedom in battle tactics.

But just as there is nothing perfect in the world, "Mountains and Wilderness" is limited by many factors and still has some shortcomings.

Although the equipment level of the Shanye Army has approached or reached the average level of the 'Eastern Field Army' in another time and space, after all, the soldiers of the 101st Army and the Qilu land have not experienced the trials of the Summer and Autumn Offensive and the Liao Province Campaign, and do not have the logistical support of several major industrial centers in the three northeastern provinces. Their tactical qualities, battlefield acumen and logistical resilience still need further training.

At the same time, due to a lack of certain objective conditions, the Eighth Route Army of Shandong Province had no experience in air-to-ground coordination, infantry-tank coordination, and other areas, and could only carry out the most basic coordination. Because they had no access to tanks, even infantry training to fight tanks had to use crude methods such as cars pulling carts.

Even the better-trained artillery had some shortcomings: now, there were no American artillery donated by the dedicated and hardworking Kaishen Logistics in the mountains, and it was even more impossible to go to the fields of the three northeastern provinces to look for wild Japanese artillery. The large-caliber heavy artillery at the field army level was still in short supply. If an artillery exchange with the Japanese army was carried out in an open manner, it would probably be a loss.

This gap in experience and training will not be completely erased or eliminated by the advancement of technology or the provision of future information. It is impossible for the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army to click on an "upgrade option" and all of them will be upgraded and become experienced revolutionary fighters.

101 knew about this, Luo Shenzhen knew about it, and the Central Committee naturally knew about it as well. Since the laws of physics and objective circumstances could not be changed, we should be fully prepared and face the current test with the utmost subjective initiative. "The Japanese army planned to launch an attack on our base in Shandong Province between February 11 and February 25, 1942.

"According to intelligence, the participating forces are planned to be four divisions, numbered... and the planned attack route is..."

As a string of intelligence was transmitted through the high-speed information network that was not in this time and space, the entire Shandong Anti-Japanese Base, with a total of nearly 30 combat troops, counted their guns and artillery.

Gather the troops and enter a state of war.

Chapter 594: Participants with Different Aspirations

In every battle, the first thing to do is to make strategic plans.

Under the strong orders from the headquarters and the emperor, General Okamura Yasuji, who had been lying down for a while, finally could not avoid the end he deserved. The North China Army had to take the initiative to launch an offensive campaign against Shandong Province.

However, precisely because of this top-down approach, the orders issued in the form of continental orders were sufficient to mobilize the entire front in China—the Chinese Expeditionary Army, the Kwantung Army, and even the Korean Front—and the operations were quite efficient. In early February 1942, just days after Okamura sent Tanaka Shinichi away, representatives and commanders from several major fronts arrived at the Zhongshan North Route Expeditionary Army headquarters in Nanjing.

Okamura Yasuji, a military and political expert, quickly began to use his status as a general to "form alliances" within the major fronts. Sometimes he would take the orders of the headquarters and work with the headquarters representatives to put pressure on other fronts, and sometimes he would unite with other fronts to ask the headquarters for resources and policies...

After several days of continuous pushing, pulling, wrangling and grinding, the basic needs and intentions of all parties involved finally began to gradually emerge.

The meeting was of a high standard. In addition to the Chief of Staff of the China Expeditionary Army, Hou Guanchun, who presided over the meeting, there were also representatives from the North China and Central China Front Armies, representatives from the Korean Army and the Kwantung Army, representatives from the Imperial Headquarters... Even a representative from the Navy, which had always been at odds with the Army, came.

"first.……"

The North China Army, because of the reputation of "home battle 7", was the most direct and explicit in its words. They said frankly: if they want to attack Shandong Province, they can also find an airport, but the North China Front Army will only deploy a division (minus 2 battalions) at most.

The remaining troops will either be supplemented by the headquarters or drawn from other fronts. If the headquarters' goal of completely annihilating the Communist forces in Shandong Province is to be achieved, at least five divisions will be required, and the possibility of more troops being needed in subsequent operations cannot be ruled out. If this amount of troops is insufficient, it is recommended to adjust the campaign objectives.

The representatives of Imperial Headquarters deliberated and concluded that as long as no airfields could be used for airstrikes against the mainland, the basic objective would be achieved. So, despite some harsh words and curses about General Okamura's lack of military ethics, they ultimately agreed. Now that the campaign objectives were confirmed, deployments had to be made.

The Japanese army still did not know where the forward airport in Shandong Province was, only knowing that "there was an airport in Shandong Province." Further analysis led the headquarters to believe that the airport lent to the Japanese by the Communists was probably in Rizhao or on the Jiaodong Peninsula.

The previous conclusion is because the Japanese army had an airfield with a dirt runway before evacuating Rizhao, and the Communist army probably expanded it to use it for taking off and landing heavy bombs.

The latter is because the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army once tried to take off for reconnaissance.

However, the reconnaissance planes were often intercepted by the Communist Army's meter-made Wildcat "fighters" in the airspace around the Jiaodong Peninsula. This "known unknown" told the Japanese army that there were Communist Army airports in this area.

The North Korean military representative then interjected, suggesting that to pinpoint the exact location of the airfield, they could dispatch the new "100-type" reconnaissance aircraft. Recent drills and tests had proven the aircraft's incredible speed and unstoppable speed. Large, heavily bombed airfields were extremely difficult to camouflage, and a reconnaissance aircraft could undoubtedly gather intelligence by simply passing over them.

This was not a big deal, and the headquarters quickly agreed.

Then, the topic quickly moved forward. Now that the offensive target has been determined, everyone will start to "contribute". Everyone knows the situation of the North China Front Army.

The most they could do was to send out the 55th Division (formerly

6) A total of 7 battalions are involved in the operation. Even if the only goal is to attack the Rizhao area and search for an airfield on the Jiaodong Peninsula, at least 3 divisions will be needed to coordinate the operation, and if possible, 4 is best.

"The Third Division in Runzhou can dispatch troops to support this operation."

The Central China Front Army discussed the matter and let the 11th Army representative speak first. "The 3rd Division can dispatch the 6th and 68th Infantry Regiments, a total of 6 battalions, to form a special detachment to fight north."

This unit was the mobile force of the 11th Army, holding a similar position to the 27th Division within the North China Front Army. Its garrisons were flexible and its combat readiness was relatively good. The China Expeditionary Force, after careful analysis, concluded that the Nationalist forces in Central China posed no significant threat to the Imperial Army. Furthermore, the Communist forces in Central China were largely surrounded by the Nationalist forces, making it difficult for them to intervene. Therefore, withdrawing another division should be a problem.

“I propose that

"Please ask the 6th Regiment not to participate in the battle via a land offensive." Upon hearing this good news, Ando Nijuzo, Chief of Staff of the North China Front Army, immediately spoke up, "We hope to ask the Chinese Expeditionary Army to coordinate and preferably participate via a land offensive." The attendees immediately lowered their heads to discuss. Indeed, if a land offensive were used against Shandong Province, it would allow the Communist Army to enter the battlefield from a place they least expected, which would be of great benefit.

However, the naval representative sitting nearby, Chief of Staff of the Chinese Fleet of the Navy, Shinichi Ichise, folded his hands and seemed to be dozing off, ignoring everyone's discussion about the land operation. This probably showed the attitude of the navy - there is no problem with the land operation, but forget about expecting the navy's full cooperation.

"The navy's gunboats, both large and small, are engaged in combat in the South China Sea and may not be able to be redeployed for the time being. To avoid disrupting naval operations and escort missions, the landing vessels for this operation should naturally be handled by the army." Chief of Staff Hou Gongjun found a way out for himself and his opponents, throwing out his own responsibility as a bargaining chip. "But regardless, the landing operation requires gunboat cover. The army is not good at naval warfare, so please facilitate this within the China Fleet. Thank you very much."

"can."

Well, at least the navy didn't resist on this point. The two chiefs of staff of the North China Army and the Chinese Army exchanged a look of heavy burden on their faces: Now, we have one and a half of the four divisions, which is two if we round it up. The problem is mostly solved; the navy is also willing to provide a few gunboats for cover.

Their eyes moved back and forth, and then focused on the representative of the Kwantung Army, Chief of Staff Yoshimoto Sadaichi.

"The Kwantung Army can dispatch the 10th and 28th Divisions, along with the 19th Battalion, to participate in the battle."

Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadaichi glanced around, like a wedding guest offering the most generous red envelope, a dazzling radiance radiating from him that blinded everyone. The Kwantung Army at this moment wasn't reduced to a hollow shell like it had been in 1944. Having survived repeated security battles and major wars, it was robust and well-equipped. Although the North China Front had been forced to dispatch the 29th Division southward due to a lack of troops available for deployment to Southeast Asia, the 10th and 28th Divisions remained readily available for maneuverable operations.

Seeing himself attracting everyone's attention like a magnet, and seeing several front representatives gasping inwardly, Yoshimoto Sadaichi smiled with satisfaction. He raised his head slightly. "But..." "But," he emphasized, instantly tightening the atmosphere in the headquarters. File shared via Baidu Netdisk: "500 Books of Historical Military History..."

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