"Shuffle!"

After listening to the lieutenant's report, Yoshio Suzuka frowned thoughtfully, unable to see any expression, and continued to ask after a long while: "What is the name of the supreme commander of this Eighth Route Army?" ”

The lieutenant picked up the telegram and looked at it, and said, "The regiment commander is called Li Yunlong. ”

"Li Yunlong!"

Hearing this name, Yoshio Suzuka, who had no fluctuations, couldn't help but scream, got up violently and asked, "Captain Sakata also died in his hands?" ”

"Hey, it's this Li Yunlong who ambushed the command post of Captain Sakata." The lieutenant replied in the affirmative.

"Do you have any details about this person?" Yoshio Suzuka asked again.

"Not yet." The lieutenant replied.

Yoshio Suzuka's brows furrowed even deeper, and he said sternly: "Order the intelligence department to immediately launch an investigation and report to me as soon as there is a situation, and the artillery unit of unknown origin of the Independent Regiment also needs to be investigated in detail, now you go and inform Yamamoto Ichiki Daisa, so that he can come here to see me quickly." ”

Half an hour has passed!

Kazuki Yamamoto, who rushed over from the Yamato Soul Special Combat Team station, made a report at the door, strode in, buckled his legs and stood up and said, "Commander, my subordinates have arrived, what are your instructions?" ”

"Yamamoto-kun, let's talk casually, please take a seat."

Yoshio Suzuka stretched out his hand to gesture to the chair next to him, and then said, "Have you heard about the martyrdom of Yamazaki Nakasa?" ”

"I heard." Yamazaki sat with his back straight, turned his head to look at Yoshio Suzuka, and said without humility or arrogance: "Sir, I don't think it's strange. ”

"Oh, it seems that Yamamoto-kun has his own ideas, please say." Yoshio Suzuka had no surprises, as if he had been waiting to hear Yamamoto Kazuki's point of view for a long time.

And Yamamoto Kazuki was not subtle, and said frankly: "Yamazaki-kun is a high-achieving student of the empire and has excellent combat command ability, which I am sure of, but he is guilty of the common mistake of most imperial soldiers, and regards himself as the god of war. ”

"There is a military book in China, called Sun Tzu's Art of War, which says, soldiers, treacherous ways, soldiers, major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival.

"This grandson is a man who lived a thousand or two thousand years ago, and he has already made incisive statements about war and strategy, whether in the past, in the present, or even in the future, these will not go out of style."

After listening to the eloquent talk of his proud protégé, Yoshio Suzuka nodded appreciatively and said, "Yamamoto-kun is worthy of being a top student of the Army University, and your opinions interest me very much, please continue." ”

"Hey!"

Yamamoto, as the founder of special theories that was not valued by the top level of the military department in this era, could not help but be valued by Yoshio Suzuka, and he couldn't help but feel a little more happy in his heart, and then said: "It only took a few months for our Great Japanese Empire to occupy the capital of China and conquer most of China. ”

"As a result, many of our generals became complacent, believing that we were no less good than the Germans, but in fact, the strategic effects of occupying Nanking and occupying Paris were completely different."

"France lacks strategic depth, road traffic is developed, the German army can quickly attack to every point, and as soon as the French capital is lost, the war is over."

"But it's different here, in China, even if we occupy all the cities and along the railroads, the resistance will not stop like in France, and the people of China will continue to fight us in the mountains, in areas far from the cities, in remote areas along the railways, etc."

"China's huge land area provides them with excellent strategic depth and extremely wide room for maneuver, and the strategic approach adopted by the empire today is doomed to the limited strength and resources of the empire, and it will inevitably fall into passivity."

Hearing this, Yoshio Suzuka seemed a little dissatisfied, and said, "Yamamoto-kun, after you made these evaluations, can I understand that you are pessimistic about the prospects of this war in the empire?" ”

"Sir, I'm angry and say bluntly, if we continue to fight in this way, I have a pessimistic attitude, we lack the capital to fight on two fronts, and our high command actually took the initiative to choose three battlefields, and China has not yet been resolved, and it is plunged into the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas at the same time, this is simply extremely stupid, sorry, please forgive my words." Yamamoto Kazuki said angrily.

"Yamamoto-kun, you should understand a truth, although the army exists for war and peace, whether it is war or peace, soldiers cannot choose, all we can do is victory, for the sake of the empire, we must win this war in Heshina."

Yoshio Suzuka got up and walked to the mountain itself, looked at him calmly, and then said: "Each army in the empire has its own business, and we are now facing North China, and what we need here is a doer. ”

"If you are the supreme commander of the dispatch army stationed in North China, then, please use your strategy and wisdom to talk about how you plan to deal with the current situation in North China from both strategic and tactical levels."

"Hey!" Yamamoto Kazuki took a few breaths, "My subordinates believe that North China is rich in products and convenient transportation, so it should be made our real strategic rear, rather than a vain rear. ”

"The specific implementation method is to divide the entire North China region with highways, high bases, deep ditches, fortresses, and strongholds, which we might as well call it gridding, so that the Chinese army can lose room for maneuver."

"Once their so-called base area is divided into several small pieces, and the first one cannot take care of each other, their guerrilla raid will be ineffective, and we can quickly launch a sortie to support any point in the grid at any time, according to the coordinates."

"The next thing we need to do is to form a heavy army group and carry out dragnet clearance, which can be called an iron wall encirclement, in the words of the Zhina people, this is to catch a turtle in an urn, and then cooperate with my special combat team to carry out a beheading operation on all parts of the Eighth Road, and the chances of winning this battle will be greatly increased."

I have to say that Kazuki Yamamoto is indeed a talent with a unique strategic vision, and if he is not too arrogant, his ending may have changed differently.

"Very good, Yamamoto-kun, you didn't disappoint me, I will report your thoughts truthfully to General Tadajun."

Yoshio Suzuka showed a comfortable smile, and the shadow of the failure of Li Jiapo's encirclement and suppression strategy was completely dissipated at this moment.

And this crisis, which can be called the biggest in the history of North China, was advanced by several months under the influence of the Xingfeng traverser.

Not surprisingly, not long after, under the circumstances that Xing Feng, Li Yunlong, deputy commander-in-chief and others did not expect, a large net covering the entire North China region will quietly begin to "weave".