"Your Excellency Shirakawa, the empire is now under unprecedented pressure.
If we want to expand the Shanghai occupation area, we must increase the army.
Otherwise, it will not be enough to defeat the China Army whose strength has doubled.
According to the news sent from the base camp, according to the current consumption rate The empire can only afford military expenditures for three more months at most before it declares bankruptcy.
I don’t know how Lord Shirakawa plans to solve the military expenditure problem."
As the naval commander of this Songhu battle, Nomura Koshisaburo threw the problem to Shirakawa Yoshinori. .
"Funds are naturally squeezed out.
During the Battle of Fengtian, weren't there people who backed down because of the issue of military expenditures?
In the end, we persisted and only retained the fruits of months of hard work.
Nanjing now only thinks about the empire's armistice in Shanghai and doesn't care at all.
He did not reach the Northeast, but Zhang Xueliang retreated again and again. , simply did not have the courage to fight with the imperial army.
Now in Shanghai, the empire has the upper hand.
Although the Chinese army is also determined to resist, compared with the fully militarized urban positions like Fengtian, the Chinese army does not have a very reliable position to defend.
The empire can definitely achieve greater benefits."
Regarding Nomura Koshisaburo's doubts, Shirakawa Yoshinori sneered in his heart.
The Songhu War of Resistance was instigated by the Navy, but the Marine Corps and the Special Marine Corps continued to suffer, and suffered a bruise in Shanghai.
If the Army was allowed to After winning the war against China, the Navy Ministry showed its face and made it clear that it would not let others eat the grapes if it could not eat them.
How could he let Nomura Koshisaburo's plot succeed easily?
"Your Excellency Shirakawa, you have to weigh the risks and benefits in everything.
The British and American devils have no vital interests in Northeast China, so even if the empire occupies Northeast China, it will encounter some dilemmas.
It will not shake the overall situation.
But it is different here in Shanghai.
Almost all the powers are here.
Yangtze River Basin, Shanghai, China Several provinces in the southeast have more or less commercial interests.
If the empire wants to dominate the United States, not only will the existing Shanghai army be unable to achieve further victory, but the empire will also really face the risk of being economically sanctioned by the great powers.
There are two battlefields in Northeast China.
Northeast China belongs to the empire.
The core strategy is that the empire does not have the ability to win in two battlefields at the same time.
The anti-Japanese armed forces in Heilongjiang and Jilin are still developing rapidly.
Even the Chinese guerrillas in Fengtian are also very active in launching the Songhu War.
Want to use Shanghai to divert support from the great powers The attention of the Northeast.
Now that the former Qing Emperor Puyi has successfully established the Puppet Manchukuo, the goal has been achieved.
Sir Baichuan, it is time to stop.
Otherwise, not only will Shanghai fail to win, but Northeast China will also lose its power.
Trapped in an endless quagmire of war.”
Shigemitsu Cai looked at Shirakawa Yoshinori with a serious face and said.
"Your Excellency Shirakawa, Minister Shigemitsu is right.
Compared with Shanghai, the empire urgently needs to resume the production of coal and iron ore deposits in Northeast China.
Therefore, annihilating the anti-Japanese armed forces in Northeast China is a top priority.
The country's military strength is already very empty.
If we continue to increase the number of troops in Shanghai, Soldiers, the military operation in Northeast China will be serious.
Discount.
If we can't seize the opportunity to deal a devastating blow to those anti-Japanese elements in the last half of the year, then the military operations of the empire will be more difficult in the words of the Chinese people.
You can’t have the same thing as a bear’s paw, you’re just going to give up the fish and get the bear’s paw.”
Major General Anichiro Tashiro, chief of staff of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force, also said after thinking for a moment.
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Seeing that China hardliners like his chief of staff also supported the strategy of focusing on Manchuria and Mongolia, Shirakawa Yoshinori fell into deep thought.
It seemed that under the pressure of the great powers, it would be difficult for the empire to achieve further success in Shanghai this time.
On April 2, the League of Nations once again passed a resolution on the peaceful settlement of disputes in the Far East, stipulating that Japan must implement all previous resolutions of the League of Nations and withdraw all its troops from China.
Japan, on the other hand, contacted Nanjing privately and proposed to the South that Japan would cease the war as a condition for the two sides to make concessions to each other without interference from Britain and the United States.
They tried to avoid the League of Nations and reach a private armistice compromise with Nanjing.
On the one hand, Japan wanted to use the withdrawal of troops from Shanghai as a condition for Nanjing to recognize the established fact that Japan occupied Northeast China.
On the one hand, it wanted to test Nanjing's attitude towards British and American intervention, and what kind of attitude it could adopt to maximize its interests under the pressure of the League of Nations.
Although Nanjing did not accept Japan's proposal, Nanjing did not give up the policy of settling domestic affairs first before resisting foreign aggression.
It was just to relieve domestic pressure and strive for relatively good armistice conditions.
On April 3, Chairman Chiang spoke to a Reuters reporter and said: The establishment of the puppet Manchukuo state in Northeast China was entirely done by Japan.
The government hated Puyi and others for being willing to act as puppets.
However, a crusade would inevitably expand the war.
Considering the consequences, we will not issue a crusade order for the time being.
Even on March 13, Nanjing went against the League of Nations' resolution requiring Japan to withdraw all its troops from the country, and advocated stopping the war in Shanghai first.
Although a weak country has no diplomacy, making such a concession after the diplomatic groups of the Republic of China have made considerable efforts is indeed too weak.
It can be seen that at this time, although Nanjing did not say so directly, it also advocated the separation of the Northeast and Shanghai issues. solved.
As the League of Nations investigation team arrived in Shanghai on the 15th, Nanjing completely handed over the Northeast issue to the investigation team to solve.
Even Nanjing has put aside the problems in Northeast China at this time.
How can we expect these foreigners in the investigation team to persuade the Japanese army to leave Northeast China?
As Kurume, which suffered relatively large losses on the Japanese side, was mixed into the 24th Brigade, the 11th Division took the lead in withdrawing into the country, and Nanjing also moved the 19th Route Army to Nanjing, Zhenjiang, and Changzhou.
The remaining 1st and 4th Divisions were transferred to Anhui, the 47th Division of the 4th Army was transferred to Hubei, and the 8th Army was transferred to Jiangxi.
The 2nd Army was transferred to the Xu and Su area.
These units have all received new Anne missions.
At this point, the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, which lasted half a month longer than in history, has come to an end.
The 19th Route Army, the 5th Route Army, and the 15th Route Army were divided into four brigades with casualties.
A total of 20,173 people were missing, including 1,083 officers and assistants. .
Japanese casualties were 8,093.
This is the result again.
Standing on the deck, Gao Zhihang held the telegram and smiled coldly.
He tore the telegram into pieces and threw them into the blue sea.
As the Songhu Anti-Japanese War came to an end, Gao Zhihang, who had already arrived in Malacca, met with the buyer.
The machinery continued to move north together, looking at the large and small containers behind them.
In the box, Gao Zhihang was not discouraged by the losses of the Northeast Air Force in the past.
On the contrary, with the arrival of these aircraft, the already humiliated Northeast Air Force will become a historical noun.
Instead, it will be reborn with blood.
It will surely spread its wings in the Republic of China and compete with the Japanese army.
Brand new air power for the bloody battle in the sky: