Chapter 345: The Two Sides Before the Great War
In Konoe's opinion, the offensive strategy used by Okamura Ninji is too old-fashioned.
It is still the most traditional three-way army offensive method.
The center broke through, and the two wings were outflanked.
This method of using troops has been taught by the national army in many battles.
Therefore, when the other side deploys its troops, it will deploy in a targeted manner.
Caused the Eleventh Army, the pace of the attack was slow.
As a general in the national army who is very capable of fighting, Tiger Boy must have conducted a detailed study of Okamura Ninji's method of employing troops.
And he has basically judged Okamura Ninji's strategic intentions.
Otherwise, the Sixth Division would not have been defeated so badly in Nanchang.
The whole army was wiped out.
The Emperor of Qi even canceled their number for good.
Occupy Nanchang, and even fools can see Okamura Ningji's intentions.
So Tiger Boy has a heavy army there.
However, Okamura Ninji was too careless, thinking that Nanchang had lost the barrier of Wuhan and was already an isolated city, so he did not specify a detailed search plan at all.
There was no detailed investigation of Nanchang, and the 6th Division was directly sent to attack.
If you despise your opponent, you will naturally suffer.
The annihilation of the Sixth Division, in the final analysis, was because Okamura Ninji was too careless.
thought that all the main forces of the tiger cub were in Hunan, and it was easy to defeat Nanchang.
What's even worse is that in the attack on Nanchang, Okamura Ningji still used the most old-fashioned three-way attack mode.
It is still a breakthrough in the middle, and the wings are outflanked.
As a result, in the end, there was no breakthrough in the middle, and the outflanking of the two wings was not achieved.
On the contrary, Nanshan's troops seized the opportunity of Okamura Ninji's division and ate three wings of the Sixth Division in a row.
It was precisely this mistake that caused the Sixth Division to lose its strength and lose its troops.
This made the Sixth Division lack stamina in the battle of Wanjialing.
It's dragged on for too long.
Let the other side have enough time to deploy troops and send troops to lead the Sixth Division to the city of Nanchang to be annihilated.
After the 6th Division was besieged, Okamura Ninji should immediately launch a large-scale attack in northern Hunan to relieve the 6th Division.
As long as the intensity of the Xiangbei offensive is large enough and Changsha is dangerous, the tiger boy would rather abandon Nanchang and send troops to support the Xiangbei battlefield.
Unfortunately, Okamura Ninji's attack in northern Hunan was not sharp enough.
There was no concentration on attacking one point.
Still used a three-way attack.
Causing the dispersion of troops.
The offense was lackluster.
As a result, the 6th Division was buried.
And the jade crushing of the Uemura detachment can be said to be another mistake of Okamura Ninji.
The Kamimura detachment went deep alone, and after laying the camp, it should stick to the camp.
Wait for the troops in northern Hunan to respond, contain most of the tiger boy's troops, and then attack Changsha all the way.
In this way, the tiger cub cannot take care of each other before and after, and Changsha has insufficient troops.
The Kamimura detachment will definitely be able to take Changsha.
However, Okamura Ningji ordered the Uemura detachment to advance to Sanniang Bridge as soon as the Uemura detachment had taken down the camp field, and the troops in northern Hunan had not completely contained the troops of the tiger boy.
The results go deep into the hinterland of the tiger cubs.
Troops were drawn by Tiger Boy and surrounded the Uemura detachment.
At this time, the other party took advantage of the fact that Okamura Ningji's attention was all on the camp, and suddenly blew up his material supply line.
This made Okamura Ningji scramble and immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops.
This is an extremely unwise choice.
Although the supply line was blown up, the 11th Army carried enough supplies to support them for three days.
In three days, if a large-scale attack is launched immediately, it will also be able to contain the forces of the tiger boy and relieve the trap of the Kamimura detachment.
However, Okamura Ninji ordered the withdrawal of troops, and asked the Nara detachment and the Saeda detachment to rescue the Uemura detachment.
As a result, in the face of heavy rain, not only did they not save the Uemura detachment, but they lost most of their weapons and equipment.
Trucks, chariots, artillery, all left to the tiger boys.
The Nara detachment and the Saeda detachment retreated in a hurry.
These were all major mistakes by Okamura Ninji.
Konoe Wen finished speaking in one breath, and the head of the analysis was Dao.
Anan nodded frequently when he listened.
The analysis makes perfect sense.
From Konoe's analysis, Anan Yuji came to a conclusion that Okamura Ningji's strategy of using troops was too routine.
Tiger Boy has figured out his rules of using troops.
That's why we can calmly and unhurriedly deploy troops and act as a battalion step by step.
In the end, he defeated Okamura Ninji.
As a result, the 11th Army suffered heavy losses, and actually lost tens of thousands of troops.
This led to a serious shortage of troops.
Now it is simply impossible to launch another attack on Changsha.
Not only is there a serious shortage of weapons and equipment, but even the number of troops is insufficient.
In order to make up for the loss of troops this time, we had to recruit new soldiers from the mainland.
But the combat effectiveness of the recruits is limited.
In order to reach the original level of combat effectiveness, the 11th Army will need at least half a year.
It is simply impossible to attack Changsha with the current forces.
Anan Weiji asked the palace authorities to collect a lot of information about the tiger cub and carefully studied it.
At the same time, he wrote a report to the base camp of the island nation.
A detailed report on the situation of the Eleventh Army was made.
This has made a very big change in the strategy of the island cabinet towards the old bald head.
The original focus on military strikes has changed to diplomacy.
The defeat of the 11th Army this time made the island's cabinet suddenly discover that the old bald troops were still very capable of fighting.
It's not as bad as they think.
The idea of occupying Changsha and threatening Chongqing did not come to fruition.
Prime Minister Fumima Konoe believes that the current strategy must change.
The mere use of force is not enough to solve the current problem.
Moreover, now the strategic focus of their island nation is shifting to the Pacific Ocean.
Tojo, who is the latest to join the cabinet, always wants to start the Pacific War as soon as possible.
Tojo believed that if their island nation wanted to continue its victory, it would have to occupy the Pacific region.
Southeast Asia, South Asia, kangaroo countries, etc., must become the dependencies of their island countries.
And repeatedly put pressure on the cabinet.
Konoe Funma suddenly felt that his words didn't count.
Now most of the resources of the island country have been occupied by the navy of the island country.
Almost all of the steel was used in the construction of warships.
The focus of the production of aircraft has also become the production of carrier-based combat power.
Large warships were launched one after another.
The navy of the entire island country is gearing up and eyeing country M.
Their current military presence in East Asia is seriously insufficient.
Now the Eleventh Army has suffered heavy losses, and there are no troops to be mobilized elsewhere.
Conscription can only continue from the mainland of the island nation.
However, there are very few young adults in the island country now.
There was no choice but to relax the age limit and lower the age of conscription to 15 years old.
After determining the basic policy, the island nation immediately sent secret negotiators and began to contact the old bald head.
For negotiations, the old bald head has always refused.
After fighting for so long, he also saw that negotiation was a dead end.
If you want not to be bullied, you have to fight.
But there is an advantage to negotiations, which is to stall for time.
Now the troops of the Ninth Theater of Operations are in urgent need of rest.
At the same time, it is also necessary to replenish the troops.
If a big battle were to be fought at once, the troops would probably collapse.
It will take at least three months to six months for the troops to regain their combat effectiveness.
Pretending to negotiate and give the troops time to recuperate is a good idea.
But this has nothing to do with Li Lei.
It's okay with the tiger cub.
At present, they are actively recruiting troops to restore the combat effectiveness of the troops as soon as possible.
Li Lei's recruitment was very smooth, and the entire new brigade soon reached its original state.
Recruit training is being effectively underway.
The wounded are also returning to the team.
Pensions for the sacrificed soldiers were also issued.
In order to send the pension as soon as possible, Li Lei asked Zhao Gang to take people and money back to Shanxi.
The roster of the sacrificed soldiers and the ocean were handed over to the chief.
Let him distribute it on his behalf.
The various ammunition that the tiger boy promised him also arrived.
Now the combat effectiveness of the new 1st Brigade has basically recovered.
After settling down, Li Lei and Zhao Gang have been at the headquarters of Tiger Boy for the past few days.
Regarding Ke Lijuan's spy, Li Lei means that he must make good use of it.
When the time comes, how to give her some false information and let her hand it over to the Japanese army, which can not only disrupt the deployment of the Japanese army, but also form a battlefield advantage for our army.
Targeted strikes against Anan's only few troops.
Isn't this the plot in the Three Kingdoms, Jiang Gan stole books.
What a strategy.
Regarding the fact that Ke Lijuan is a mole, few people know.
Li Lei, Zhao Gang, Lao Huzai, Lao Wu, Chief of Staff, and one person, Lu Zongze, director of the Intelligence Department.
Other than that, no one knows.
In the past two days, Lu Zongze, director of the Intelligence Division, has obtained the latest codebook of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army through the secret front.
This made Tiger Cub very happy.
With the Japanese army's code book, they can know all the movements of the Japanese army.
After a few days of analysis, Tiger Boy felt that Anan was the only one.
I haven't even fought a decent battle.
It was a bit too much for him to be the commander of this eleventh army.
It feels a little gilded.
But Li Lei did not agree with Tiger Boy's statement.
The 11th Army of the Japanese Army was a very important force.
It was a mobile unit of the Japanese army.
The purpose is to occupy Changsha again.
For such an important matter, it is impossible for the island country to send a fool.
Since Anan Weiji was sent over, it means that this Anan Weiji must have a few brushes.
Can't be careless.
Lao Wu also told Tiger Boy that war is no trivial matter.
You must not take your opponent lightly.
Tiger Boy nodded.
That's right, despise your opponent, and in the end you will be unlucky.
Now he has more than 200,000 troops in his hands.
A wrong decision by his tiger boy may lead to countless people dying in vain.
Li Lei has also studied Anan Weiji, and feels that this person's fighting style is eclectic.
And the way of fighting is to imitate the blitzkrieg of country D.
However, in Li Lei's view, Anan Weiji did not learn the essence of blitzkrieg.
The degree of mechanization of the Japanese army is far from that of country D.
Moreover, Hunan is hilly and mountainous, and swamps are everywhere.
Blitzkrieg, a fast-moving approach, is not suitable.
This is a weakness that can be exploited.