At that time, the gate of the Kwantung Army Headquarters in Xinjing, Manchukuo
A brand-new Nissan car slowly parked at the Kwantung Army headquarters building. There were eight Japanese military trucks in front of and behind the car to protect Major General Kita Seiichi, the new director of the North China Front's Special Higher Education Department, in the car.
Not long after, an officer with the rank of colonel came forward and said loudly, "General Kita, Commander Ueda has been waiting for a long time!"
Hearing this, Kita Seiichi hurriedly followed the officer's footsteps, all the way to the office of the then Kwantung Army Commander-in-Chief Ueda Kenkichi on the twelfth floor of the top floor.
"Oh! Kita-kun! We haven't seen you for a long time! Come sit down!"
As soon as the two sides met, Kita Seiichi took the lead in saluting the old boss who carried the rank of general on his shoulders. The other party couldn't help but feel so good when he saw his old subordinate reunited after a long separation that he actually poured water for him and placed it in front of him.
"How is the situation in North China? Has that fellow Okamura Neji stabilized the situation?"
Hearing this, Kita Makoto smiled bitterly and truthfully informed Ueda Kenkichi of the current situation in North China.
In general, as a senior official of the ruling faction and the alternate commander-in-chief of the North China Front, Okamura Neiji himself is very capable and powerful.
Since the beginning of taking power, he has set out to appease the frightened garrison in Peiping. At the same time, he has greatly expanded the North China Security Army and internally put forward the slogan of using China to control China.
Immediately afterwards, using his status as a senior official of the ruling faction and his methods, he eliminated a large number of middle- and senior-level officers who were inactive, and immediately downsized and reorganized the troops into three divisions: the 11th, 13th, and 15th.
In this way, the overall situation in North China has been completely grasped, and the morale of the army has been effectively improved, but the will to fight has always been low.
Especially the words Li Yunfeng and Chinese Defense Force!
Hearing this, Ueda Kenkichi clasped his hands and laughed. As a man who had reached the pinnacle of the traditional Imperial school, he had never been so happy since he was squeezed into Manchukuo by the ruling faction during the February and February Incidents two years ago.
Immediately, introduce him to the current strength of the Kwantung Army!
The arrogance is beyond words!
In the words of Okamura Neiji: "The Kwantung Army is ready to move!"
It turned out that on the third day after Sugiyama Genmei was killed at the Oriental Hotel, Ueda Kenkichi, then commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, submitted a combat plan on the Far East strategy to the Ministry of Homeland Army.
Its main purpose was to use the fifteen Kwantung Army divisions stationed in Manchukuo to march eastward to attack the Mongolian region, then conquer Siberia, march to the hinterland of the Soviet Union, and finally join the German SS in Moscow.
Coincidentally, on the same day, SS Supreme Leader Hillem also submitted a combat plan to Mustache.
But it was different from the Wehrmacht's strategy of marching westward to Britain and France. His tactics were to go east first and then west.
Unfortunately, his proposal was opposed by the vast majority of the Wehrmacht generals, including Mustache. Coincidentally, the Japanese Army Ministry did not dare to act rashly without a definite response from the German army.
However, Ueda Kenkichi is a veteran of the military and cannot be offended, so he uses the Chinese Defense Force as the current serious problem in North China as an excuse to temporarily delay the opponent.
Unexpectedly, Ueda Kenkichi was really interested!
For this reason, there was a scene where Kita Seiichi was invited to Xinjing.
"That defense force, is it really that strong?"
At the right time, Ueda Kenji asked.
"It's really strong! Although I have never fought with them from beginning to end, but based on the intelligence collection in the early stage of the special high school and the perspective of the officers who have fought with Li Yunfeng, the strength of the Chinese Defense Force is far better than that of the Central Army and the 18th The Army Group and all military groups within China!"
"Stronger than the Imperial Japanese Army?"
Suddenly, Ueda Kenkichi asked a thorny and sharp question.
Fortunately, Kita Makoto had anticipated this problem early on, or it could be said that Okamura Neji had vaccinated him in advance.
He raised his water glass, drank a large sip of tea, looked directly at the old officer in front of him and said loudly:
"At least it is stronger than the North China Front Army and the Central China Front Army! Otherwise, the heads of General Isotani Rensuke and General Yasui Toji would not be still in Li Yunfeng's office as trophies!"
To this day, since the heads of Isoya and Yasui were chopped off and displayed in his office, the whole world knows that the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Defense Forces Li Yunfeng does not love beauties, but loves human heads!
And they specially select the heads of Japanese lieutenant generals and above for collection!
After the delegation returned from Peiping, there were more people in his office, including the commander-in-chief of the North China Front, General Gen. Sugiyama, the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Kozuki Kiyoshi, the chief of staff of the North China Front, Shojiro Iida, and the commander of the Second Army. There are only four dog heads in Takashima.
Including the old second division commander Yasui Toji and the fifth division commander Isotani Rensuke, a total of six dog heads are placed in the office.
Even though Heydrich, who was known in Europe for his ruthlessness and bloodiness, couldn't help but sigh that Li Yunfeng was better in terms of psychological quality when he saw this!
It even made the generals of the Japanese army become the laughing stock of armies around the world. Their heads were only given to Chinese people and displayed as trophies, like looking at monkeys.
Every time I think of this, the North China Front Army and the Japanese Army Ministry beat their chests!
"You make sense! That's why I called you here this time to come up with a solution to the problem of the Chinese Defense Forces!"
[The picture shows a dagger! 】
Kita Cheng took a deep breath: "What do you want to do, sir?"
"You must also know the Far East plan I submitted to the military! You also think that I am watching the two armies of North China and Central China fighting fiercely in the hinterland of China, and I am eager to make a move, right?"
Hearing this, the other party did not speak, waiting for Ueda Kenkichi's next move.
"It's not me who is ready to move! It's the entire Kwantung Army! There are fifteen divisions and 360,000 troops, the flower of the Japanese army! It is the pride of the empire! The elite of the army! Now, staying in Manchukuo, It’s really frustrating to fight against the bandits and the Anti-Japanese Alliance armed with local guns!”
"So, the Kwantung Army needs to vent! It needs a war! It needs to establish meritorious service in the war!"
Facing the emotional Ueda Kenkichi, Kita Makoto broke through the status quo one by one.
"That's right! So as long as I help you solve the North China problem, the big guys from the Army Ministry can only approve my Far East combat plan! Only then can we fight the Soviet army in Siberia with real swords and guns! Establish meritorious service for His Majesty the Emperor. !”
"Commander-in-Chief Ueda, how can you confirm that you can definitely defeat the Chinese Defense Force? Or how are you going to attack Li Yunfeng, who is in full strength?"
Kita Seiichi raised the sharpest and most realistic question at the right time.
"It's very simple. If you give up Ji Province, our ten divisions and 200,000 troops will march straight into Chahar and solve the imperial army's most serious problem with thunder! Kita-kun, what do you think?"
