Xinjing, Kwantung Army General Headquarters.

"Your Excellency General, the base camp is in urgent need of power."

Ishihara Kanir had lunch when Kintaro Hashimoto came to him with a telegram.

"Why are you urging me again? Is it really that urgent?"

Ishihara Kaner frowned. Before he could read the content of the telegram, he could guess that it was probably urging him to lead his troops south to assist the Shandong battlefield as soon as possible.

Before this, Ishihara Kan'er had received two similar messages, and it was more urgent once and it was like a house fire, and it was so anxious that it was too urgent.

Hashimoto Kintaro said with a bitter face: "Great General, the Chinese Tiger Army has now broken through the Tuha River defense line, which has put great pressure on the entire northern Shandong Plain and even the North China Plain.

The base camp is really worried that the Chinese Tiger Army would completely lose control, which would inevitably cause unbearable damage to the Japanese Empire's rule in China, so it is very anxious to extinguish and kill it as soon as possible. This is understandable!"

"With that being said, what's the use of just being anxious? Can we still fly over?"

Ishihara Kaner shook his head with a frown, then picked up the telegram and read it. After a while, he said in confusion:

"There is a saying in ancient Chinese saying, "Far water cannot quench the near thirst, and it will take at least ten days and half a month to transfer troops from the Kwantung Army. According to the current situation, I am afraid that the war in Shandong will not be as good as the war in Shandong."

Since the situation is so critical, why didn’t the base camp mobilize the 2nd Army in Nanjing and the 13th Army in Xuzhou nearby? The two armies are closest and are considered the strongest imperial army in China!”

"this!"

Kintaro Hashimoto was speechless and couldn't answer. It was not that he didn't know the answer, but that the answer was very embarrassing.

According to Kintaro Hashimoto's understanding, there are only two reasons. One is that the Tiger Ben Army is too famous and has too strong strength. Neither the Japanese troops besieged the Tiger Army nor the base camp have enough confidence to trap this tiger down the mountain.

The second is nothing more than the basic routine of killing donkeys and destroying bridges when crossing rivers.

Kintaro Hashimoto knew very well that although Ishihara Kanir had created a miracle of war before, he once again expanded the territory of the Great Japanese Empire, defeating the powerful Soviet Far East Army.

Ishihara Kanir also reached the peak of his life, received a personal commendation order from His Majesty the Emperor, and received the top honor that countless Japanese soldiers dreamed of: the title of Japanese Field Marshal.

But in fact, any Japanese officer with a little brain and vision knew that Ishihara Kanr once again set an extremely dangerous precedent, which made His Majesty the Emperor and the Base Camp extremely dissatisfied, and thus planted a seed of distrust.

Now the Soviet Far East has been occupied by Japan, and the Soviet Union on the battlefield on the Eastern Front of Europe was beaten by the German army to no avail and was about to perish, so the Soviet Union's danger and pressure on the puppet Manchukuo were gone.

Now the Hu Ben Army has started to make trouble again, and it suddenly broke through the Yellow River defense line that Japan thought was impregnable and woke up the Japanese military government.

The Japanese Emperor and the base camp once again focused on the Shandong Peninsula, so at this time, he took advantage of this excuse to attack the Kanto Army.

Of course, this move is not about consuming the Kanto Army and letting the Kanto Army die as cannon fodder, but rather about weakening Ishihara Kan'er's control over the Kanto Army and expelling Ishihara Kan'er from the bottom of the fire to prevent this guy from doing any military adventures below.

It has to be said that this time the base camp was really ruthless in attacking the Kwantung Army. It transferred more than 300,000 of the most elite divisions and troops in one breath, including almost all combat aircraft and armored clusters.

At this moment, the Kwantung Army was really emptied when it returned to before liberation.

"Forget it, the soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty, and order the troops to speed up their way south!"

Ishihara Kanir breathed a long sigh. Before that, he was indeed planning to further expand the results of the war and attack further away until he joined forces with his German allies to completely destroy the Soviet Union.

But now, it is obvious that this grand plan can only be a womb.

Even if Ishihara Kanr can continue to privately intercept the technical equipment produced in Manchuria, it is impossible for me to develop and become fuller again in less than a year.

Although Ishihara Kanir felt very unwilling and painful, he had no reason to do so at this moment.

Otherwise, it would be called treason, rather than the two previous military adventures of "for the Yamato nation"!

Shanghai, the combat room of the 13th Army Command of Japan.

Shigeru Sawada, Chief of Staff, Takayuki Miura, Naoji Sakai, Commander of the 15th Division, Commander of the 22nd Division, Katsukai Oda, Commander of the 23rd Division, Kanji Nishihara, Commander of the 116th Division, and other senior Japanese generals gathered together.

The 13th Japanese Army was an army-level combat unit of the Japanese Imperialist Army during the war of aggression against China. It was ordered to be organized by the Japanese Army Base Camp on September 23, 1939. The military headquarters was located in Shanghai.

Since its establishment, the Ministry has been fighting in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and other provinces in China for a long time. However, due to the emergence of the Chinese Tiger Army led by Yang Fan, the main task of the 13th Army is to siege and defend against the Chinese Tiger Army, so as not to pose a threat to the hinterlands of Japanese-occupied areas such as Nanjing and Shanghai.

As a result, like the 12th Army, the 13th Army has been strengthening. Even though the Myanmar dispatched troops were completely destroyed not long ago, the Japanese Emperor was eager to form 50 divisions to continue to fight against the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the four old troops under the 13th Army had not moved.

Not only that, the 13th Army has also incorporated four independent mixed brigades, several special forces, and is equipped with a flight division with a total force of nearly 200,000.

How to count the more than 100,000 Japanese Army entrenched near Nanjing, as well as the more than 500,000 direct troops of the Wang Puppet Government, the total Japanese and puppet troops in the south and southwest of the Shandong Peninsula exceeded 800,000.

The direct troops of the Wang Puppet Government here are not local miscellaneous puppet troops, and their weapons, equipment, combat power, and fighting will are much stronger.

Although it is a bit unrealistic to ask them to take the initiative to attack the Chinese Hu Ben Army, the fortresses and the towns are still quite combat-effective.

Logically speaking, with so many troops in this direction and a defensive system chain that has been built for a long time, the Japanese and puppet troops can still rest assured, but the recent big news caused by the Tiger Army in Jinan Prefecture and the Northern Shandong Plain still made the Japanese and puppet troops feel anxious and stressed.
Chapter completed!