Section 162 Shanghai French Concession
As senior Japanese generals, they should have an intuitive understanding of the productivity of the entire Japan. At this time, if the domestic base camp still has tanks, how could they not send them to the front line? Could it be that they can have children in China? Of course it is impossible. The reason why they did not add tanks to you is because in recent times, all the domestic resources have been sent to the navy. The navy has lost a special mixed fleet in the north. Although they have captured a large number of British warships, those things are still good in coastal defense. If you think about fighting the enemy on the ocean, it is not enough, it is simply a loss of the navy. Therefore, the major Japanese shipyards are working overtime to produce heavy cruisers and destroyers for the navy.
"As far as I know, the army of the China Security Corps has now achieved full mechanized combat. Although our tanks cannot cause too much damage to them, if we have tanks, the casualty rate of our army will drop a lot. However, when we don't have tanks, we cannot fight the Chinese army at close range. So I urge the headquarters to discuss our current difficulties with the base camp. If there are no tanks, we can only fill the lives of our brave soldiers from the Great Japanese Empire, so that our losses will be huge. Now every veteran is very important to our Great Japanese Empire." The person who spoke was the Chief of Staff of the Central China Expeditionary Army, Ichiro Kota.
Originally, Seishiro Itagaki and Prince Hirohiko Asagaki wanted to serve as chiefs of staff of the Central China Expeditionary Army. The two also had their own supporters in Japan. However, after weighing the pros and cons, the Japanese base camp found someone from the Japanese Army University to send them to them as chiefs of staff. It would be better to avoid the two people fighting on the front line. This is one of the reasons why Seishiro Onomoto and Prince Hirohiko Asagaki always gave eye drops to General Matsui Ishione.
I wanted to be this position at the beginning. If you recommend it as the commander, you won’t be in this situation now. As a result, General Matsui Ishiko chose not to help you two go to the domestic activities. It depends on who has more skills and who will be the chief of staff of this front army. It has nothing to do with me anyway. Whether it is Seishiro Itagaki or Prince Hikari Asakamiya, it is a kind of power difference for General Matsui Ishiko.
The best result is to transfer one from another place, and he is not very familiar with the Central China Expeditionary Army, just like now. Ichiro Kota is not very familiar with the situation here and doesn’t speak much at ordinary times. However, Ichiro Kota knows very well that he has no foundation in China. The reason why he was sent here to be the chief of staff was to balance the three people in front of him. He also analyzed these three people. On the surface, Prince Hirahiko Asakamiya should have the greatest power. After all, he is a royal family and is relatively close to His Majesty the Emperor. But in actual analysis, Prince Hirahiko Asakamiya does not have much real power here, and his reputation in the Japanese army is not very good. If he wants to develop well in the future, he should still have a good relationship with General Ishione Matsui.
"What the Chief of Staff said is correct. Let's explain to the domestic base camp. I hope they can add it to us. If this matter is not the main thing now, the most important thing is that we must launch an attack quickly. The six generals of Yan Jun can no longer withstand it. Since losing Hong Kong, the life of the Southern Army can be said to be getting worse day by day. Now a defensive division has been lost. Everyone will tell you where we will launch an attack again." General Matsui Ishione really doesn't want to talk nonsense with these two pieces of information under his command here, so he quickly finished the meeting and asked them to get out.
However, after this period of peace, the Central China Expeditionary Army had long been divided into two factions, one was the two Shanghai Expeditionary Army divisions under Prince Hirohiko Asakamiya, and the other was from the North China Expeditionary Army. Now Seishiro Itagaki and Prince Hirohiko Asakamiya were not talking, and the remaining division commanders were also pretending to be mute here. Besides, everyone's heads were very precious. If they spoke, what if General Matsui Ishione sent this order of attack to himself?
General Matsui Ishione looked around, but no one dared to face his eyes. This made him think that when the Central China Expeditionary Army arrived in Shanghai, everyone was eager to try. At that time, they were thinking about making such a contribution and entering Nanjing. This was what all the soldiers and generals thought. Unfortunately, time has changed, and now no one has taken the initiative to attack. When he sent his mission, these people still had to hide from him. I really don’t know why they became like this.
"If everyone has no good idea, there is a way to go." Gutian Ichiro saw that no one was talking. He knew how the current scene was caused, but he must not let General Matsui Ishinobu be embarrassed here. He must pick up General Matsui Ishinobu's face. Moreover, as long as his idea can be carried out according to the plan, it will reverse the situation in Central China and will also cause great losses to all Chinese troops.
"The Chief of Staff should have arranged combat missions. I don't know what the Chief of Staff has to say, so let's listen carefully." General Matsui Ishione nodded with satisfaction. This should be his deputy, and this is what a deputy should do.
"It's very simple. We open a breakthrough from this place. It is a neutral zone between us and the Chinese army. As long as we can defeat this place and then use it as an attack base, most of the defensive positions of the Chinese army will become useless positions. At that time, we will definitely occupy the entire Shanghai." This old guy is really amazing. She actually wanted to attack everyone from the public concession. At this time, she was stunned. The concessions in Shanghai are related to the major empires, but everyone also figured it out at this time. Anyway, we have already had a fall with other empires, so why bother with them? Especially when we have fallen with the British, the French have lost their country, so what is left is the Americans. It turns out that the national army has already occupied the place, but in order to exchange supplies, the Japanese are now targeting it.
Chapter completed!