The rapid deterioration of the war situation in Heilongjiang was something that Yamada Otozo, an old devil, had never dreamed of, and the rapidly deteriorating situation also made this old devil worried.Yoshimoto Sadachi stood in front of Yamada Otozo, frowned and said with a worried expression: "Your Excellency, the battle situation in Heilongjiang has deteriorated extremely, and the strength of the imperial army in Heilongjiang is no longer enough to resist the offensive of the Eighth Route Army.If you want to stabilize the war situation in Heilongjiang, the only way is to transfer troops from the Liaoning battlefield to support Heilongjiang. ”Yamada Otozo's face became even more gloomy, and he frowned and said: "At present, the Liaoning battlefield has reached the most critical moment, if the troops are dispatched north to support Heilongjiang at this time, then the efforts of the imperial army in the past half a month have been in vain. ”"Hai" Yoshimoto Sadachi replied respectfully, and said helplessly: "Now that we have been fighting fiercely with the Eighth Route Army in Liaoning for half a month, these hateful Eighth Route Roads have changed their previous combat style and actually concentrated the main force to conduct a large-scale decisive battle with the imperial army.Especially in Chaoyang, the battle is the most intense, at present the entire Chaoyang City has almost become a ruin, the two sides invested hundreds of thousands of troops, fought a street battle in Chaoyang for half a month, the casualty ratio almost reached one to one, now the imperial army has lost more than 50,000 troops, and the capture of Chaoyang is still far away, the humble fear that in this kind of fighting, the imperial army not only can not take Chaoyang, but therefore lost Heilongjiang, but also lost a large number of troops, it is really worth the loss. ”Yamada Otozo sighed softly, which was also the problem he was most worried about, but at this moment, Yamada Otozo had no other choice at all, and said helplessly: "The importance of Manchuria to the empire, Yoshimoto-kun should be very clear, especially Liaoning.In order to achieve victory in the holy war, the empire must not give up Manchuria.So in any case, our Kwantung Army must defeat these hateful Dirt Eight Roads and ensure the safety of Manchuria.Now that the situation has developed to this point, it is no longer possible for our Kwantung Army to ensure the security of the whole of Manchuria, and we can only make a choice for the sake of today's plan. ”In the end, Yamada's expression gradually became firm.Yoshimoto Sadachi frowned and thought about it, and said: "Your Excellency the Commander means to give up the Heilongjiang region to ensure the safety of Nanmanchu" Yamada Otozo showed a trace of struggle on his face, obviously hesitating in his heart, after a while, Yamada Otozo sighed deeply, and said helplessly: "This is also a matter of no choice, but we don't have to give up the entire Heilongjiang region."
At present, Qiqihar and the surrounding area have been captured by the Eighth Route Army, and the main energy of the imperial army is now concentrated in South Manchuria, I am afraid that Heinan will recover these lands in a short time.In the border areas west and north of Qiqihar, the imperial army still has a part of its troops, which I mean to abandon this section of the border line east of Hailar and west of Yichun, and all the troops stationed on the border line will retreat to the east of Yichun, concentrate their forces to guard the northeastern area of Heilongjiang, and wait until the imperial army has eliminated the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Liaoning, and then it will not be too late to turn around and deal with the Tuba Road in Heilongjiang. ”Yoshimoto Sadachi frowned and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, since the imperial army occupied Manchuria in 918, the imperial army has built a large number of fortifications and fortifications from Hunchun in the east, through the northern border of Heilongjiang in the middle, and extending to the Arshan area of Hailar in the west, to prevent threats from the north.For this reason, the imperial army spent a lot of manpower, material resources, and countless precious resources, and now it is a pity to give up the border line from the west of Yichun to Hailar, thousands of miles. ”After the 918 Incident, the Japanese invasion of China lasted more than ten years, and built a total of 17 fortresses, with a total of about 1,700 kilometers of fortresses and a total of 80,000 permanent fortifications in the border area of Hunchun, Jilin Province, through the Sino-Soviet border of Heilongjiang Province in the middle, and 5,000 kilometers of Hailarjin and Arshan in Inner Mongolia in the west.In addition, it also includes thousands of permanent underground warehouses, power stations, communications hubs, water supply stations, and other ancillary military installations, as well as a large number of second- and third-line general positions and field positions, as well as military airports, military railways, and highways.All the fortifications of the Japanese fortresses were constructed with reinforced concrete fortifications, permanent firepower points, steel cap forts, armored observation posts, and civil and wooden firepower points, infantry bunkers, mobile trenches, anti-tank trenches, chain barbed wire, and anti-infantry minefields, ammunition depots, grain depots, power stations, water supply and drainage systems, and bathrooms, as well as military rooms, conference rooms, infirmaries, kitchens, telephone rooms, and officer command posts with squads and platoons as units, and electric rail transporters and special passages, shafts, and vents.In order to prepare for aircraft bombing and large-caliber heavy artillery bombardment, underground fortresses are excavated from the middle or bottom of hard rock mountains, and concrete is poured on the top and around the cave entrance, which is generally 12 meters thick.It was designed and constructed under conditions of complete secrecy, and forcibly recruited more than 3.2 million Chinese laborers, resulting in the death of more than 1 million laborers.After Li Guotao led the main force of the Seventh Column of the Eighth Route Army to recover Qiqihar, he never marched westward to recover the Hailar area in the west because of these fortress groups.With the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, if you want to capture these strong fortresses, you will have to pay a heavy price, and judging from the situation at that time, this is obviously more than worth the loss.Therefore, Li Guotao did not attack the border area, and planned to liberate the northeast hinterland first, so that all the Japanese troops on the border could be attracted and then eliminated, if the northeast hinterland was all occupied by the Eighth Route Army, then these border fortresses would lose any significance to the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army could only gradually reduce the border garrisons, and even finally abandon these fortresses, and at that time the Eighth Route Army would naturally be much easier to recover these border areas.Now that the Japanese army has been defeated in successive battles in Heilongjiang, with heavy losses and a serious shortage of troops, Yamada Otozo really began to consider abandoning these fortress groups and gradually gathering troops.Yamada Otozo sighed helplessly and said: "At this point, we have no other choice, these border fortress groups were originally to serve to defend the hinterland of Manchuria, and now the hinterland of Manchuria has been mortally threatened, and there is no point for the imperial army to hold on to these fortress groups."
Moreover, these fortresses were intended to prevent the Russians from the north, and now that the Russians themselves could not defend themselves, it was impossible for them to attack Manchuria in the south, so there would be no need for us to station so many troops in the border area. ”aa2705221: