Chapter 280 of the main text volume, Kazuki Yamamoto - Special Operations Squad

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In a short period of firefighting, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army of the Independent Regiment were defeated by Yamamoto Kazuki's special operations team. n∈n∈ This is the special force of the First Japanese Army stationed in Shanxi, and it is a newly formed special force. It belongs to the Japanese army wing system, which is equivalent to the regiment-level structure of the Chinese army.

Captain Yamamoto Kazuki Daisa, graduated from the Imperial Army University, and most of his classmates have been among the ranks of famous army generals, such as the famous Itagaki Seishiro.

Kazuki Yamamoto's military rank was the lowest among graduates of the same period at Lu University, because Kazuki Yamamoto was not interested in the operations of the large corps, and his interest was in the study of special operations, which was an emerging military discipline.

In the First World War, it was not taken seriously by all parties, but in the 30s of the nineteenth century, some servicemen who were interested in special operations invariably appeared in the military academies of various military powers.

Their theoretical basis is that, on the premise of acknowledging that great men created history, they must not ignore the possibility of small people creating history.

When the balance is in equilibrium, the weight of an ant can lead to the tilt of the scale, so on the strategic scale, the surprise attack of a small army that is specially trained, well-equipped, and highly combat-oriented at a critical moment will also tilt the strategic balance.

Yamamoto Kazuki Daisa could not be promoted to the rank of general like his classmates, and the subject he studied was too biased. But he never regretted that World War II was a vast arena for activity, and his American, British, and German counterparts had already shown their skills in the European, North African, and Pacific theaters.

In his eyes, how can the history of special operations of the Imperial Japanese Army be blank?

The operatives are selected from each unit. It is necessary to pass a variety of strict assessments, and the elimination rate is extremely high. At the special forces school in Berlin, Colonel Hohmann, the Germanic instructor who had always looked down on the Orientals, was surprised to find that this group of cadets from the Japanese archipelago had extremely rich experience in actual combat, which was by no means something that could be learned in the classroom.

The cadets proudly told Colonel Sù that they were all highly educated, and that the Japanese had not ceased to fight since the Manchurian Incident of 1931, when Mr. Hitler had not yet taken care of the affairs of Germany.

Kazuki Yamamoto looked down on the old, rigid-minded officials in charge of ordnance production. Look at what weapons they equipped the Japanese army, five-round loaded Type 38 rifles, each bullet fired had to pull the bolt to return the shell, and there was only one light machine gun per squad, and the firepower was too poor.

Ordnance officials theorized that Japan was a resource-poor country, and that equipping it with automatic firearms would increase the cost of warfare, with a single-shot rifle might last a day's worth of ammunition based on 150 rounds of ammunition carried by a single soldier, while a submachine gun used for burst fire might not last an hour.

If only one million army units are equipped with submachine guns, then the existing resources, production capacity, transportation capacity, and logistical support system will be expanded tenfold, and such a high-cost war cannot be afforded by Japan.

Kazuki Yamamoto holds the opposite view, believing that Japan's lack of resources is an objective fact, and if it were not for this reason, there would be no need for Japan to carry out this war of aggression against China.

Since the Manchurian Incident in 1931, the three northeastern provinces of China have become the main bases for Japan's supply of resources and arms production. After the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, most of China's land and resources had fallen into the hands of Japan.

Such a vast occupied area, such abundant resources, and cheap labor force are enough for Japan to adjust its arms production and come up with better weapons and equipment for its troops.

Yamamoto Kazuki will never forget the Battle of Nomenkan in 1939, which broke out in the Sino-Mongolian border area, which was a contest of steel, large-scale industrial production, will, flesh and blood.

At that time, General Zhukov, commander of the First Army of the Soviet Far East, concentrated four tank brigades, 300 aircraft, and 250 artillery pieces.

The air group roared in the sky, the artillery on the ground roared, and the aerial bombs and large-caliber shells bombed the Japanese positions into a sea of fire, and the intensity of the fire strikes was unprecedented for the Japanese.

In the depths of the Great Gobi, which is unobstructed, on a frontage of more than 10 kilometers, flying dust swept the land, and thousands of Type 34 Soviet-United tanks came overwhelmingly, and the tracks of the tanks mercilessly crushed the spirit and spirit of the Japanese soldiers.

At the same time, it also buried Japan's arrogant ambition to the north in the wind-blown and sandy Mongolian Gobi. In this battle, the Japanese lost more than 50,000 casualties, while the Soviet casualties were less than 3,000.

Nomenkan, a diabolical name, left a painful memory on Kazuki Yamamoto that can never be erased. He equipped this special forces force of less than 100 people with advanced weapons, and its combat effectiveness is definitely the first class in the world.

Each member of the special forces was equipped with a German-made Simon "MP38" submachine gun and a German-made 20-round shell gun, and each combat team of 10 people was equipped with two light machine guns, and the individual firepower was satisfactory.

Yamamoto Kazuki Daisa was very unimpressed with this operation, and he thought that Lieutenant General Yoshio Suzuka was a bit arrogant, although the Eighth Route Army was a strong force in the entire Chinese army, but in his eyes, this army composed of peasants who had never seen the world was simply not an army.

Dressed in tatters like a flower child, they are worried when winter comes, and their government does not even issue cotton military uniforms, and a captured Type 38 rifle is considered first-class equipment.

Most of the soldiers also used Hanyang-made, a product of the Hanyang Arsenal founded by the Qing minister Zhang Zhidong at the end of the 19th century, and the accuracy of this rifle was extremely poor, and jamming was common.

Even with such inferior weapons, ammunition was desperately scarce, and each soldier could not fit five rounds. It is a joke that such an army dares to fight against the imperial army.

But Yamamoto Kazuki had to admit that the vigilance of this unit and the quality of the soldiers were still extremely high, and his mission to raid the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army this time failed. After killing many fighters of the Independent Regiment, Kazuki Yamamoto led the special operations team to leave calmly.

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"What kind of main group? It's just dough!"

At the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, when the boss heard the news that the independent regiment had been raided, he was furious, "Go! Withdraw the commander of the independent regiment to Lao Tzu! What are you going to eat? A regiment can't hold a Yang village, and it was defeated by a devil's squad!"

"Boss, you dissipate your anger first!" the chief of the general staff hurriedly persuaded, "I heard that this little devil is different from other little devils, it is a special operations team, and it uses automatic firearms......

"Don't make excuses! Remove the head of the independent regiment from Lao Tzu!"

"Remove the commander of the independent regiment, who will go?"

"Where is Li Yunlong?"

“……”

Li Yunlong, who embroidered in the quilt factory, was transferred to the combat unit and served as the head of the independent regiment, and Lin Yi, Chen Long and others also followed to the independent regiment. (To be continued.) )