Rise From Eight Hundred

February 26, 1939!

It was already the time of early spring after the coldest winter, but Pingbei City, a big city in northern China, was still cold and windy, and there were few pedestrians on the streets!

Perhaps it was not only the cold weather that made the people who had no support and had been struggling to survive under the rule of the Japanese army for more than a year unwilling to go out, but also the fact that Pingbei City had suddenly strengthened its vigilance since the previous two days.

The number of patrolling Japanese soldiers and security forces on the street was at least twice that of the previous two days. When they met the few pedestrians, they would usually check their ID cards. If they did not have ID cards, they would be beaten and kicked by the security forces and taken away for detention. Their close relatives would take the money and their ID cards to the security forces to pick them up.

It was obvious that this was a big move by the Japanese North China Front Army, or a big man was coming. The spies of the Military Control Commission in Pingbei City all looked at the Japanese North China Front Army Headquarters!

In the small meeting room of the Japanese North China Front Army Headquarters, four people were sitting upright.

There were General Sugiyama Gen, the commander of the front army, Lieutenant General Miyamoto Saburo, the chief of staff of the front army, Lieutenant General Itagaki Shiro, the commander of the Japanese Third Army, and a Japanese Army Lieutenant General with a cold face and drooping eyes, showing a bit of cruelty.

Obviously, this was an extremely high-level military meeting. The three of Sugiyama Gen alone were already Japan's highest military decision-makers in North China.

But even Army General Sugiyama Gen still sat at the bottom of the conference table instead of the main seat. This was the first time since Sugiyama Gen arrived in China for more than half a year.

Sitting in the main seat was a 70-year-old man with a big belly and an old face.

Facing the old man who was over 70 years old sitting in the main seat, the current commander of the North China Front Army, General Sugiyama Gen, had a stiff face.

Perhaps, if anyone knew that he was going to leave the position of commander of the front army and become an education director, he would probably not feel very good.

After the setback of the "New Year's Day Offensive", Shanshan Yuan already knew that his time in China had begun to count down, but he did not expect that the headquarters would be so disrespectful that they could not wait to transfer him away in less than two months.

If it were someone else, he, the former Minister of the Army, would not look favorably upon the person who came to announce the headquarters' order, but he did not dare to offend the old man in front of him.

Prince Kanin Palace Ren, the Emperor's uncle, was promoted to Marshal 20 years ago. He is currently the Chief of Staff of the Japanese Army and the de facto head of the Japanese Army. Every important order of the war of aggression against China was signed by him personally.

Facing such a person, Shanshan Yuan could only obey obediently.

"Yuan Jun, can you tell me why the war situation in North China has become so difficult?" The old man in military uniform asked straight to the point.

"Your Excellency, the Chinese Second War Zone has accumulated heavy troops in North China, and behind them is the Yellow River, which they call the last line of defense. They can only fight to the death, thus bursting out amazing combat power. This is something that neither I nor I expected, so we suffered this setback!" Shan Shan Yuan could only answer with his head down.

But Shan Shan Yuan is not made of clay. Even when facing the top figure of the army, he admitted that he had problems and also pulled out the front-line commander designated by the headquarters, Itagaki Shiro. The subtext is clearly that it is not just my fault here, but the headquarters and Itagaki Shiro are the main ones.

Itagaki Shiro, who stood straight, did not move, but his drooping eyelids blocked the flash of murderous light.

"Yuan Jun, don't put all the responsibility on the headquarters. I just said it very clearly. I am not just referring to the so-called New Year's Day offensive, but the entire North China war situation." The old man did not intend to give face to the army general at all, but spoke bluntly.

"The North China Front Army originally had 330,000 troops. In the past year alone, how many imperial officers and soldiers were added to the North China Front Army from the country? More than 130,000. Does that mean that the number of soldiers who died in battle or had to retire due to injuries in the past year has reached 5 divisions?

Do you think this responsibility should be borne by the headquarters or the emperor himself?"

Shan Shanyuan's face turned pale after hearing this, but he was unable to refute it.

Although half of the blame should be borne by the bastard Indoor Shroud, but that guy was not there, so he, the commander of the North China Front Army at the time, had to take it.

1938 was the Waterloo of the Japanese North China Front Army. The two elite divisions of the Front Army lost more than 20,000 people in the Battle of Taierzhuang; the Chinese stole more than 10,000 people in the Battle of Licheng in April;

When he took over as commander in May, the Eight-sided Encirclement Campaign in Southeast Shanxi ended with the Chinese annihilating a mixed brigade and a rising Army Major General;

In September, the Chinese took the lead in launching the counterattack in Eastern Shanxi. He racked his brains to play a trick of attacking from the east and attacking from the west, but it failed again. Not only did he lose tens of thousands of people, but he also lost the lives of a lieutenant general and two major generals;

The New Year's Day offensive, which he had been holding back with all his strength, was beaten to a pulp, with a total loss of more than 60,000 people, almost equal to the Battle of Central China.

But one side only invested 400,000 to 500,000 troops, and the other side invested more than one million troops, which was not at the same level at all.

Seeing Shan Shan Yuan lowered his head and stopped talking, the old man's tone became softer: "Remember last year when Shi Hu Jun resigned and before you took office, I told you not to underestimate this ancient country. This country has a civilization that is difficult for us to reach. This is our best chance. Once we miss it, we may never be able to conquer them again.

It's a pity, Mr. Yuan, you are still like those people, still stuck in the glory of the Imperial Army that easily took away the three eastern provinces and easily knocked on the door of North China.

I am going to serve as the director of education. I hope you will learn a lesson and live up to His Majesty the Emperor's trust! "

"Hi! Shan Shanyuan will live up to the great trust of His Majesty the Emperor and Your Excellency the Prince!" No matter how tough Shan Shan Yuan is, seeing that the boss has already given him a step, he hastily steps down the hill.

Although the Director of Education does not have the same authority as the Commander of the Front Army, he is still in charge of the empire's military education. If given the opportunity, he may be able to make a comeback. Now if I go toe-to-toe with the Chief of Staff of the Army, I might even lose this position and end up hanging around as a military counselor like that unlucky boy in the indoor shroud.

"Yuanjun, although you made mistakes when you were in office, you are also a person who has a clear understanding of the war situation. Both Duo Tianjun and I want to hear your opinions on China's war situation." Seeing Shanshan Yuan's submission, the old man showed a smile.

"This" Shan Shanyuan hesitates slightly.

"But it doesn't matter. The reason I came to China this time is to listen to the opinions of you frontline commanders and suggest adjustments to His Majesty the Emperor.

The international situation is now urgent, and the German Empire is on the verge of firing at their feud at any time. His Majesty the Emperor and their head of state's emissaries have been in contact several times, and we may have a few more powerful enemies at any time.

We can only and must end the Chinese battlefield as soon as possible. The empire's goal is not just here, but the entire continent, and even the other side of the ocean. "The old man's face became serious, and his eyes were full of ambition.

"The empire's military fortune is prosperous!" Several Japanese generals showed joy on their faces, including Shan Shanyuan, who was still feeling sad just now.

The more troops the empire uses, the more opportunities these army generals will have to be reused, and the wealth they will gain will be greater. The success of the family depends on the empire.

"The empire has invested nearly one million troops in China, including the Central China Front Army and the North China Front Army. They launched attacks on the interior of China from the north and south lines respectively. It seemed to be a two-line attack, so the Chinese side had to divide its forces to fight. , weakening its investment in a certain direction.

However, after more than a year of fighting on the battlefield, in fact, due to organizational issues and generals' different judgments of the battle situation, the two front armies basically worked independently and were unable to form the joint force previously envisioned by the base camp.

Just like in September last year, our North China Front Army planned to mobilize divisions to increase troops for the Central China War based on instructions from the base camp. Our North China Front Army Headquarters needed to conduct telegram communication at the Chief of Staff level with the Central China Front Army Headquarters, and then handed it over to the staff of the staff to make tactical arrangements. Finally, the order was sent to the division headquarters, but its efficiency was appallingly low.

In the Battle of Taierzhuang, the detachments dispatched by the Fifth Division and the Tenth Division collapsed, which was not unrelated to this inefficient communication. "Shan Shan Yuan started to talk eloquently.

"What's your opinion, Yuanjun?"

"I suggest that a general headquarters of the Chinese Expeditionary Forces be established, with independent corps under its jurisdiction, to uniformly command operations in China." Shan Shanyuan continued, ignoring the suddenly ugly look on the face of the cold-faced and brutal Army Lieutenant General.

As the Undersecretary of the Army, the President of the Army University, and the deputy of Prince Kanin Giyahito, this man arrived in North China, didn't he just want to take over his position as the commander of the North China Front? Shanshan Yuan gave him a stumbling block before leaving without any psychological burden.

"This old dog must die a good death!" The Japanese army lieutenant general hated Shan Shanyuan in front of him to his core.

His appointment as commander of the North China Front hadn't even been announced yet. Shan Shanyuan, who was about to leave office and return to his hometown in despair, gave him a hard deal that would have made anyone else scold him.

"Well! Yuanjun, what you said is exactly what I want. Before I came here, I discussed with His Majesty the Emperor the issue of reorganizing the organizational structure of China's two major front armies. The base camp is far away from home, and the exchange of information in coordinating the two major front armies is too slow. Fighter planes are often fleeting, so how can they tolerate such inefficiency?

It is imperative to establish the China Dispatch Force Headquarters! "Compared to the dissatisfaction that has surfaced on the surface of his subordinates, the old man nodded with satisfaction.

"anything else?"

"There is also the war situation in North China. China's second theater has hundreds of thousands of troops, and its strength cannot be underestimated. However, there is nothing to be afraid of. Only the two armies need to be more vigilant.

The first is the Four Lines Regiment. This regiment is well-equipped, its officers and soldiers are brave and good at fighting, and its commander is cunning and scheming. The combination of the two has caused a lot of damage to the imperial army in the past year, and it has become a serious problem for the empire!

The second is the 80th Group Army. The equipment and the quality of the soldiers of this group army are average. However, this group army is different from other Chinese armies. It is very good at hiding troops among the people. It uses this as a cover to vigorously develop new recruits. Its strength expands very quickly. In addition, it likes to organize into Fighting in small groups, attacks on the Imperial Army's logistics units were extremely frequent, causing losses in personnel and material.

Over time, they will become a more troublesome existence than the Four Elements Group. "When mentioning these two old enemies, Shan Shan Yuan's mouth already showed bitterness.

The reason why he was forced to step down was that these two troops were the instigators. More importantly, he, the commander of the front army who commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, could not do anything about them.

The Japanese Army Lieutenant General with a cruel face showed a trace of disdain on his lips! No wonder the military generals rated Shan Shanyuan as foolish, and this was absolutely true.

An infantry regiment with only a few thousand soldiers and a small group army that is not even a regular organization in China can be regarded as a major threat to the empire by him. His vision is so broad.

"Duo Tianjun, you have studied the Chinese war situation in the past two months and have done a war chess deduction at Luda. Now you have heard your predecessor's views and suggestions on China and the war situation in North China. Why don't you tell me your thoughts." After listening, the old man cast his eyes on the Japanese Army Lieutenant General with disdain.

Yes, Lieutenant General Duo Tianjun, the third commander of the Japanese North China Front during the Anti-Japanese War, finally made a "shining" appearance.

However, it is slightly different from the past time and space, because the two predecessors were dismissed one after another, this unlucky child who was supposed to take over in September 1939, achieved the "great cause" of a general 7 months ahead of schedule!

This is actually! It's not a good phenomenon.

If Kanin Miyahito hadn't come to support him personally, Itagaki Shiro and Miyamoto Saburo, who were sitting on the other side, wouldn't have looked at him, a lieutenant general of the army.

After all, one was a veteran lieutenant general of the army who had long controlled an elite division, and the other was a member of the Kwantung Army who wanted to get out of the quagmire of the North China Front Army and had never been able to get out. Both of them had the qualifications and confidence to ignore the deputy of the Army Chief of Staff.

In fact, both of them had realized that the headquarters had appointed a lieutenant general of the army to take over as the commander of the North China Front Army, which was already paving the way for the establishment of the China Expeditionary Army Headquarters. Otherwise, if the commander of the lower-level combat unit was an army general, then the commander of the expeditionary army would have to be a marshal, right?

Duo Tianjun, who was ambitious but incompetent, obviously had not yet realized the crux of the problem. He was still completely immersed in the excitement of being the commander of the North China Front Army. He stood up and walked to the hanging map of North China: "After several months of research on the North China battlefield, I found that before last year, the Chinese army would often choose to hold on until they were defeated in a direct confrontation with a large army. After the North China Front Army's battle line was extended, the logistics and transportation lines were also too long, which gave the small Chinese army hiding in the countryside an opportunity, which is the 80th Army that General Shan Shanyuan just mentioned. The logistics and baggage troops of the front army were frequently attacked, making it difficult for the front line to obtain supplies and the morale of the army was unstable. How could they not fail?

The imperial army controlled most of the areas in the cities, and had almost no control over the vast countryside. This also provided fertile ground for the spread and growth of the so-called imperial confidant. This was the main reason for the frequent defeats of the North China Front Army, not because of how strong the combat power of the Four-line Regiment of just a few thousand people was, nor because of the extremely rapid expansion of the 80th Army. "

"Haha! Duo Tianjun, you have done a good job in research. As your predecessor, I can't give you more guidance. I can only tell you a story from ancient China. There was a man named Zhao Kuo in ancient China who could study the war situation, and then died very young on the land you are standing on." Shan Shanyuan responded with a sneer.

Duo Tianjun was completely pointing at the monk and scolding the bald donkey, without any restraint. How could Shan Shanyuan swallow this breath? He just ridiculed Zhao Kuo, who was good at talking about war on paper, and that was all for the sake of Xianyuan Gongren's face.

"Whether I am a paper-talker or not, Commander Shanshan Yuan, please do not worry, but I have a plan to defeat the enemy, which has been approved by His Excellency the Prince." Duo Tianjun did not argue with Shanshan Yuan face to face.

The accusation he almost named just now was already a vent for his previous anger. If he continued to argue with him, it would arouse the hatred of Itagaki Shiro and Miyamoto Saburo.

Except for the old man, no one among the Japanese generals present knew how Duo Tianjun moved him and made up his mind to replace the commander of the North China Front Army in advance.

But Tang Dao knew!

The reason why Duo Tianjun, a notorious Class A war criminal, could be ranked alongside Gu Shoufu and others was not because of how cruel he was on the battlefield, but because he proposed the famous "Three Alls Policy" during his tenure. In the vast rural areas of North China, the specific actions carried out by Japanese soldiers were to "kill all", "burn all", and "rob all" to carry out cruel acts against civilians and unarmed personnel.

Duo Tianjun attempted to destroy the personnel and materials in the countryside to solve the problem of the 80th Army's continuous recruitment and frequent activities in the occupied areas from the source.

Historical data show that from October to December 1940, when the Japanese army swept the 80th Army's Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region, it was this person who ordered: "This operation is completely different from the past. It is to completely annihilate the Chinese army and its base. All people in the enemy's area, regardless of gender, age or young, should be killed; all houses should be burned, all food and fodder that cannot be carried away should also be burned, pots and bowls should be smashed, and wells should be buried or poisoned!"

It was also under the guidance of this idea that Duo Tianjun's successor Gangcun Xiaoci repeatedly ordered the implementation of the "burning operation" and continued until the end of the war.

This tactic, which was undoubtedly a beast, caused great losses to the soldiers and civilians in the base area and also hit the enthusiasm of the Japanese army in the occupied areas to fight the war.

Many villages that wanted to fight the war were massacred.

However, life is like weeds. The Chinese people who survived the Five Barbarians Rebellion have a tenacity that the Japanese cannot imagine. They still live firmly on the land left by their ancestors.

Moreover, this era has a little butterfly from the future. Although Duo Tianjun arrived early, it was also within his plan.

Because of the arrival of Kanin Miyahito, the Japanese North China Front Command completed the transfer of military power in just one morning.

Itagaki Shiro and Miyamoto Saburo also expressed their full support for Duo Tianjun, the new lieutenant general commander.

Kanin Miyahito drew enough cakes for each of these two people!

Of course, this cake is really not drawn on paper. Miyamoto Saburo only needs to hold on for another half a year, and the position of the first division commander must be his. The China Expeditionary Army Headquarters is already under construction. Although the current Director of Education, General Nishio Toshizo, has not been officially appointed, he has begun to lead the preparation of the headquarters. The candidate for Chief of Staff is basically Itagaki Shiro, and the rank of Army General is just around the corner.

How can the two people who were appeased not be obedient? The two biggest obstacles for Duo Tianjun to become the commander were cleared.

After staying in Pingbei City for another two days, Kanin Miyahito met with several lieutenant generals of the A-type divisions in succession, paving all the way for his deputy, and then flew back to the mainland with the disgraced Shan Shanyuan Yuan who resigned.

This is the second general-level commander who was forced to leave the Japanese North China Front Headquarters in less than a year.

Changing people is like changing knives. The Japanese understand this principle. What if they get a good one?

Sitting alone in the spacious and bright office of the commander of the North China Front Army, Duo Tianjun, with drooping eyes, raised his mouth corners fiercely, no longer suppressing his joy, and laughed out loud!

Although he had an expeditionary army headquarters on his head, he still became a commander in charge of 300,000 troops. Looking at the entire imperial army, how many people can achieve such an achievement?

However, Duo Tianjun, who was ambitious but incompetent, still underestimated his opponents as he did in the past.

In particular, there was a Tang Dao who knew what he wanted to do.

Want to create an uninhabited area in North China? That depends on whether your teeth are strong enough!

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