Bright Sword Military System

At first, Umezu Yoshijiro did not believe the intelligence coming from the front line. He asked himself: "If there is no oil in Ping'an Village, why should the Eighth Route Army defend it?"

In fact, Umezu Yoshijiro knew the reason in his heart. The Eighth Route Army was not defending because of the oil in Ping'an Village, but was using this as an excuse to use defense instead of attack to consume the Kwantung Army's effective strength.

Umezu Meijiro said this just because he couldn't accept this reality.

After the imperial exploration team conducted a blanket search in Heian Village and found nothing, Umezu Meijiro had to accept this reality.

The news reached Tokyo first, and Ozawa Jisaburo and Sakagaki Seishiro didn't know yet.

Tokyo was worried that telling them this would affect the morale of the troops.

Therefore, the fighting at the Fengtian Defense Line was not greatly affected during this period, and the Japanese were still attacking with all their strength.

But over time, divisions emerged within Tokyo.

The differences mainly focus on whether the attack on China is still meaningful.

The army believes that the oil war should continue regardless of whether there is an oil war in Ping'an Village, because only in this way can the empire gain a foothold in the Chinese mainland, and the empire has hope of dealing with Eagle Sauce.

That's not what the Navy thinks.

The most resolute opponent in the navy was Deputy Toyoda... Deputy Takeshi Toyoda has always been unwilling to coordinate with the Army to attack China, and he was extremely dissatisfied with Tokyo bypassing him to command Ozawa's fleet and coordinate with the Army. At this time, he just seized the opportunity. The counter-general army and the Tokyo First Army.

"Can't you see it?"

"This is a trap set by Huaxia and Yingjiang. They want us to move our industry and military strength to Huaxia!"

"If it were in the past, when our army had controlled most of China, it might have been feasible to move to China to deal with Yingjiang!"

"Maybe if China has oil, I will agree to do this!"

"But now...if we continue to do this, it means we will be attacked from both sides by the Eighth Route Army and Eagle Sauce!"

"It is extremely difficult for us to even defeat the Eighth Route Army, let alone face enemies on two sides or even three or four sides!"

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The "enemies facing three sides" mentioned by Deputy Toyoda refer to the Eighth Route Army plus the Eagle Army and the stubborn army, and the enemies facing four sides refer to the Chinese people.

Toyota Fuwu has a very good reason.

In the past, the Chinese Eighth Route Army only fought guerrillas in the mountains, and the empire was relatively safe in the plains.

The stubborn troops on the other side have no "desire" to fight the imperial army at all. They only think about the struggle between the imperial army and the Eighth Route Army.

But now, as the Eighth Route Army becomes stronger and stronger and has even regained most of the Northeast and pushed the Kwantung Army to a dead end, does the empire still have the conditions to deal with Eagle Sauce in China?

"So!" In the end, Deputy Toyoda concluded: "We should shrink our forces to focus on defending the main island, and the navy should also preserve its strength. The Ozawa fleet should withdraw to the main island to prepare for the final decisive battle with Eagle Sauce, instead of attacking China. Pointless loss!"

Then Deputy Toyoda simply ignored what Tokyo meant and issued the order to Ozawa Jisaburo on his own: "There is no oil in Ping'an Village. This is a trap of the Eighth Route Army. Stop all coordination with the Army immediately!"

This is the brilliance of Deputy Toyoda. He dared to do this, especially bypassing Tokyo to tell the Heian Village that there was no oil, because he knew that Tokyo could not do anything to him... Deputy Toyoda, the commander of the combined fleet, was forced by Tokyo. If he is in charge, can Tokyo still remove him from his post?

The withdrawal was just in time. Deputy Toyoda knew very well that the combined fleet could not defeat the Hawk Fleet. He was just cleaning up the mess. After withdrawing him, someone else would take the blame!

On the other hand, Vice Takeru Toyoda did not order Ozawa Jisaburo to return to the island but asked him to stop all cooperation with the army.

Because Toyoda's deputy knew that this order would be easier for Ozawa Jisaburo to execute.

From the standpoint of Ozawa Jisaburo, he had to obey the orders of the commander-in-chief, Deputy Toyoda, and the command of Tokyo.

What if Toyota's deputy orders conflict with Tokyo?

In the end, Ozawa Jisaburo is likely to choose to carry out Tokyo's orders.

Therefore, if the order given by Deputy Toyoda is: "Return to the main island!"

Because Tokyo could not step down, it could only strictly order Ozawa Jisaburo to stay in Donggang. By then, it would be his Toyota deputy who could not step down!

Now, Toyoda's deputy just ordered Ozawa Jisaburo to stop coordinating.

This order did not overly stimulate Tokyo. Even if Tokyo ordered Ozawa Jisaburo to "continue cooperation," Ozawa could still send a few fighter planes to deal with it.

Although Toyoda, the deputy military commander, had no talent in the military, he was as scheming as anyone else in the officialdom.

At this time, Ozawa Jisaburo was suffocating because of the previous carrier-based bomber being forcibly used as a "human bomb" by Seishiro Sakagaki... He discussed it with Seishiro Sakagaki, but Seishiro Sakagaki pushed the matter aside. He gave it to his subordinates and even pretended to punish them. Ozawa Jisaburo couldn't do anything to him.

Now, as soon as he received the telegram from Deputy Armed Forces Toyoda and learned that there was no oil in Ping'an Village, and that there was an order from Deputy Armed Forces Toyoda, he immediately followed suit and ordered: "Stop all coordination with the army!"

The subordinates should also be very straightforward.

This is because the surviving pilots returned and knew that Ozawa Jisaburo did not give this order and everything was a lie by Sakagaki Seishiro...

This may be just a lie to others, but to the fleet pilots it is a matter of life and death.

Especially after the combined fleet provided so much help to the army in capturing Donggang, the army actually deceived them in repaying kindness with revenge!

And if this coordination continues, what will happen next time the Army does this again?

Therefore, everyone in the fleet has long been resistant to this battle. At this time, Ozawa Jisaburo's order to stop coordination can be regarded as responding to the calls of the grassroots officers and soldiers of the fleet.

The fleet pilots even cheered for this order. They were not willing to bleed and sweat for the army anymore!

Sakagaki Seishiro didn't think it mattered, because he thought he had gained the upper hand in the offensive battle anyway.

On the surface, it seems that the Japanese army does have the upper hand, because the bombed artillery of the Eighth Route Army cannot be replenished so quickly. Even with artillery detection radar, it is difficult to effectively suppress the Japanese artillery... There is also a "quantitative change to qualitative change" thing on the battlefield, the Japanese Once there is a numerical advantage in artillery fire, the tactic of firing in one batch and lurking in the other can be used.

That is to say, another group or even several groups are ready, just waiting for the Eighth Route Army artillery to counterattack and then react quickly to suppress them.

Therefore, Sakagaki Seishiro's eyes were fixed on Fengtian, regardless of whether there was oil in Heian Village or whether the combined fleet cooperated.

"We must capture Fengtian!" Sakagaki Seishiro stared at the location of Fengtian on the map with red eyes: "That is the key to this battle. It determines the fate of the empire. They will understand it later!"