Chapter 127: Stone Possessed (Seven)

Okamura Yasuji waved his hand and said, "Come Nakajima Naka's military uniform. His appearance will make the Imperial Japanese Army very embarrassed."

Nakajima took a deep breath and said, "I understand, thank you, Deputy Chief of Staff!"

In fact, Okamura Yanji and Nakajima Tai are both within the category of smart people, so it is not difficult to talk. The only difference, Okamura Yanji, is very lucky. He is also the team of the Showa warlord Hirohito himself, while Nakamura Tai was not lucky and was chosen to act as the so-called negotiator. He was unlucky and had a bad luck in meeting a guy like Zhang Xuewu who never plays according to the rules. In Okamura Yanji's opinion, Zhang Xuewu's actions were trying to anger himself? All this seems too unreasonable?

Nakajima saw Okamura Yanji frowned, so he said boldly: "I found that although the surface buildings in Chengde City have basically been destroyed by our artillery fire, there are still a large number of hidden fortifications, castles and firepower points. The Chinese army is equipped with a large number of machine guns, submachine guns and war defense guns, and they are very motivated and ammunition is sufficient."

"What? Ammunition is very sufficient?" Okamura Yanji looked at Nakajima with an incredible gaze and hesitated for a moment: "Our army sieges for more than ten days, and they fought fiercely all night almost every day. We suffered nearly 50,000 casualties. How could the Chinese army still have sufficient ammunition? The Chinese army must be acting for you, which just shows that they lack ammunition."

Okamura Yanji was very sure of his judgment, because according to the amount of ammunition fired by the Chinese army, the ammunition he had hoarded could not exceed the total amount prepared by the Kwantung Army for the Rekawa Battle, right? Moreover, the inside line of Nanjing has given several replenishment cases of the newly compiled First Division. A division's Chinese army, even the central army of the Nanjing government, would never be able to hoard so many weapons and ammunition.

Before the Battle of Rehe was launched, the intentions of our side were quite good, which gave the Chinese army an illusion. Could it be that someone would be foresighted? Or did the intelligence leak the tactical intentions by mistake?

Nakajima is not going to give Okamura Yanji the so-called view to gain a chance, because if Okamura Yanji's view can gain a foothold, then he will be dead! Nakajima took a deep breath and said, "Your Excellency the Chief of Staff, I don't know what you think of the Battle of Chengde?"

Okamura Yasuji was slightly stunned and said: "Since the Russo-Japanese War, our army lacked the experience of joint combat between large corps, and attacks were inevitable. What's more, the mountainous land of the Atak River is, and Chengde's geographical location and terrain are too special. It's winter, and there are many unfavorable factors for our army's offensive."

Nakajima Tai said while dressing, "Although the Chinese army collapsed with one blow, those Chinese army are so-called local troops. They are not even the elite troops of the Northeast Army. The 106th Division, which was intercepted by the 8th Division in the field, was the troops of the Northeast Army's Provincial Defense Brigade, which was intercepted by the 8th Division in the field, was the second-rate unit of the Northeast Army. Even so, the 8th Division almost eliminated the other side with 1:1 casualties. The real elite troops of the Northeast Army are the newly formed first division guarding Chengde City. Before this, this unit was reorganized, the Seventh Brigade of the Northeast Army. They lost the Beidaying without fighting, so they were guilty. There is an old Chinese saying that the Ai Army is invincible, don't stop returning to the army! Please come here with the Deputy Chief of Staff!"

Nakajima Tai led Okamura Yiji to the map to pick up the triangle plate and ruler, and beautifully drew several triangle equal division lines on the map: "The Chinese army gathered about 300,000 troops along the Great Wall, with about 50,000 people in Suiyuan. The Chinese army has increased to two corpses in front of Shanhaiguan, all of which are the main forces of the Northeast Army. However, except for the 106th Division that had fought desperately to reinforce, the rest of the troops were all still holding their troops? Isn't this abnormal? If you are trapped alone in a city, Zhang Xuewu should accept the ceasefire negotiations of our army, at least it can delay time. However, Zhang Xuewu did not care about the ceasefire, and even used insults to insult me ​​to anger our army and let our army resume the attack. Isn't this really hard to understand?"

Nakajima paused for a moment and said, "Please ask the Deputy Chief of Staff to look at the sand table. The Chinese army defended Chengde but gave up half of the urban area. Many people had ridiculed him before, but now it is proved that the enemy general Zhang Xuewu is a genuine defensive warfare master. The price of the 6th Division filling a corps. The Chinese army was covered with beans on the bluestone road. Our soldiers slipped down one of them and they beat the other. The entire street of hundreds of meters of the old street is now full of blood ice. All the beans were frozen on the ground by the blood flowing out. There are still more than 2,000 corpses that cannot be recovered. How long can our officers and soldiers fight in the fortifications built with the corpses of their comrades?"

Okamura Yanji frowned and said, "But the Chinese soldiers are also using the bodies of their comrades to strengthen the fortifications. The Chinese army can do it, why can't our army?"

Nakajima sighed helplessly: "The Chinese army is like a group of sad warriors. The Shenyang Incident made them vulnerable to great losses. They fought with our army in Chengde with a determined desire to die. Moreover, the terrain of Chengde determines that our army's superior forces and firepower cannot be effectively utilized. The tenacious character of Chinese soldiers destined that they are good at enduring, and their complete civil fortifications minimized the casualties caused by artillery fire."

Nakajimata pointed to the overall strategic attitude and said: "After more than a month of continuous offensive, our army is now difficult to guarantee weapons, ammunition and supplies. Grassroots officers and soldiers are extremely exhausted. Field hospitals are full of wounded soldiers and cannot be transferred. The materials piled up in Chaoyang cannot be delivered. Even if these materials are sent to our army in front of us, how long can we support them? If the Chinese army suddenly attacked the Shanhaiguan line with the strength of two legions, and continued to advance to Jinzhou to cut off our army's retreat, and the Chinese army at the pass on the front line of the Great Wall take advantage of the situation to attack, and I face the elite Chinese army who are as short of food and bullets as a wolf or tiger, how likely will our army win?"

Nakajima Tai pressed his hand on Chengde's position and patted hard: "The strategic and tactical intentions of the Chinese army are very clear. They guard Chengde with an elite spirit with a decisive heart, consume our army's vitality and ammunition and medicine resources, and use the rugged and long logistics supply line of Rehe to drag down our army. Although the troubles are getting smaller and smaller, once our army delays the offensive until the beginning of spring, the muddy roads will bring greater pressure on the logistics. If the Chinese army attacks our army's Chaoyang supply base and attacks Shanhai Guanjinzhou, the retreat route will be cut off, and then the five divisions and two mixed brigades that I have left Rehe will be completely surrounded by the Chinese army and may even be annihilated!"

Nakashima Ta's words made Okamura Nishi come to the map. Okamura Nishi did not think that the Chinese army had the determination to fight the battle to eat five divisions of the Imperial Army and two mixed brigades at one time, but what Nakashima Ta said was indeed a little reasonable, because Chengde's new first division's statement was not like a lonely army at all. Their trenches, traffic trenches, firepower points, frequent attacks in front of the formation, chariots and infantry, a large amount of artillery fire suppression preparations, and the traps of the Old Street gave to the Sixth Division. All of this was summarized. The Chinese army was fighting very well, able to defeat defense wars in this situation, and was able to use the terrain so well. It was the first time that Okamura Nishi had seen him.
Chapter completed!