Chapter 313: A Natural Rival and Nemesis
Tsuruta Numan clearly knew that in order to form this special advance team, in order to recruit suitable personnel, he had offended too many people within the 36th Division. If it weren't for the commander of the division and the full support of the chief of staff, he would not have had any chance of succeeding under tremendous internal pressure.
And this experiment, which was once pinned on by the division commander and the chief of staff, ended up being a failure, which just gave these people the opportunity to fall into the well. Even the division commander and chief of staff may have to find a scapegoat to get out. I, the initiator, am probably the best candidate for this scapegoat.
When the Soviet-German war broke out last year, one of my classmates, who served as a military attache in the German embassy, once wrote a letter to himself. The letter gave a detailed account of the confusion caused by the German contingent disguised itself as Soviet troops and penetrated into the rear of the Soviet army to give the Soviet army communication system and the chain of command at the beginning of the war.
The German army was able to quickly break through the national border and encircle the front-line troops of the Soviet army on a large scale. These contingents, dressed in Soviet uniforms, using Soviet-style weapons, fluent in Russian, and quite familiar with the Soviet army's schedule, regulations, and regulations, can be said to have contributed a lot.
The introduction of the battle situation sent by this classmate coincided with his original idea. Because in Tsuruta Numasu's view, it is simply by buying Chinese who served for the Japanese army, as well as a very small number of Nakano School graduates. Under the condition that the base areas of the Eighth Route Army are tightly organized and have great control, it is difficult to play a decisive role.
In the German way, several contingents were trained that were familiar with the rules and regulations of the Eighth Route Army, as well as the internal situation of its so-called base areas, and were proficient in operating the weapons used by the Eighth Route Army. It will definitely play a considerable role in capturing the Eighth Route Headquarters and completely destroying the Eighth Route Army base in Taihang Mountain.
Therefore, according to the experience of the German army in the Soviet-German battlefield, Tsuruta Numan readjusted several advance teams that he had formed and trained. A group of veterans and non-commissioned officers who knew a little Chinese were mobilized within the division and regiment to make training adjustments and form this special advance team.
It's just that this advance team has not yet completed the final training, and it is far from reaching its own expectations, so it has fallen into the sand in this Taihang Mountains. Not only did all his hard work in the past year go to waste, but he also ruined a new combat mode that might appear.
It was clear to Tsuruta that the Japanese Army, which was in the army, was too conservative in its new combat concepts and far less innovative than its allies, the Germans. Defeat in this war will keep the Army from trying to do so for at least a few years.
Thinking of this, Tsuruta Numan let out a long sigh. Looking at the cemetery of the fallen Eighth Route Army not far from the place where the Japanese army was buried, the name of Li Ziyuan was found on the wooden tombstone. But he could only shake his head and sigh, lamenting that his fate was somewhat unlucky.
In this sweep, the Mashiko Advance Team, which he created, bit the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to the death. It ensured that it would provide accurate information on the transfer of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army for the sweep of troops in all directions. As a result, the troops participating in the encirclement trapped the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army on the cross ridge, and they were almost about to succeed.
But he didn't expect this guy to stick a horizontal rod and tear a hole in the encirclement of the encirclement of the encirclement troops. Not only did it drag down part of the troops in the front, but it also created an opportunity for the Eighth Route Headquarters to break through. also rescued a large number of people who had fallen behind the Eighth Route from under his nose, making the plan he had painstakingly formulated fall short in the end.
At the beginning, he used the deciphered code to transfer him to the core area of this sweep. Originally, the plan was to use the true intention of the entire North China Front Army in this sweep to eliminate this guy in one fell swoop. And take the method of diverting the tiger from the mountain, and transfer this guy away in order to destroy the local power of the Eighth Route in Hubei from the root.
In order to disintegrate the foundation of this guy's survival in Hubei, let them have no food to eat, no soldiers to replenish, and even if they can't be eliminated, they will be dragged down, trapped and starved to death in the eastern mountains of Hubei. But he didn't expect that he would end up cocooning himself.
Transferred this guy to the core area of the sweep, and set up a chain set up many times, and indeed hit this guy with a lot of vitality, capturing and eating his basic troops. But he didn't expect that the three advance teams he had worked hard to train were all lost in the hands of this guy in the end.
Compared to his hard-trained elites, this guy's subordinates are a pile of garbage even if they are brave and good at fighting. The hundred dirt and eight roads under his command, no matter how strong their combat power is, they are not comparable to an imperial elite. But his entire plan was lost in the hands of this guy.
Could it be that this guy was sent by God to restrain himself and get along with himself? His repeated painstaking deployments have been lost again and again in the hands of this guy. And every time I lost more miserably, this time I lost the last of my capital, and I won't even have a chance to turn over. This person is simply his natural opponent and nemesis.
He is an elite officer who has been painstakingly trained by the best military schools in the world, the Imperial Army Non-commissioned Officer School and the Army University. But he repeatedly lost in the hands of Tubalu, who had never attended this one-day military school. Looking at the somewhat gloomy sky, having lost all the capital, Tsuruta Nunan, who knew that he might not be able to turn over again, let alone the depression in his heart.
However, at this time, Tsuruta Numan was depressed, but he still maintained the so-called last dignity in front of his subordinates. He did not agree to a traitor who came with the team, and proposed to dig up all the corpses of the Eighth Route Army buried there and hang them on a tree for public display. In particular, the so-called suggestion that the body of Li Ziyuan's wife must be dug up in order to avenge the imperial army who died in the war.
Although he was a natural opponent with Li Ziyuan, Li Ziyuan did not let his subordinates die in the wilderness, and Tsuruta Numan understood. They buried their dead subordinates and did not strip them of their clothes, preserving the last dignity of these war dead, and Tsuruta Numan did not go too far.
The most important thing is that Tsuruta Numan believes that by fighting with the war dead, he will lose the dignity of his own dignified Japanese Imperial Army. The Japanese Army has always honored the strong, whether that person is an enemy or someone. They treated all surrendered enemies with contempt, and their treatment of prisoners of war could even be described as cruel.
But in order to maintain their so-called bushido spirit, as long as the stubborn battle dead, even their enemies, will be respected by them. Tsuruta Numan knew that if he followed the advice of this traitor, even if he could stimulate that guy, it would cause disgust and even a certain disgust among his subordinates.
In order to maintain what little is left, the only remaining so-called dignity. Tsuruta Numan did not follow the traitor's advice, and even after the repeated defeats of the Japanese army, he would find the Chinese people around the battlefield to slaughter in order to vent his anger at defeat.
After the cremation of the bodies of the war dead, several ammunition boxes were hastily vacated and temporarily used as urns, and the ashes of the war dead were temporarily put together. Looking at the reckless Taihang Mountain around him, Tsuruta Nunan, who had completely lost confidence, did not stay too long, and withdrew from the battlefield with the brigade around him.
It's just that before Tsuruta Numan left too far with his troops, he received an order from the regimental headquarters of the 36th Division. In addition to an unusually severe reprimand for his failure again, this order was given. Let him sweep around the battlefield on the spot, looking for the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to make meritorious service for his crimes.
Tsuruta Nunan, who received the telegram, shook his head, very dismissive of this order. The target had already disappeared from under his nose once. After this failed raid, the opponent's actions can only be more stealthy. In such a large mountainous area, it is not easy to find a guy who is already good at mountain warfare.
It's just that the telegram of the division commander was unusually harsh in wording, and it didn't give Tsuruta Numan any room for bargaining at all. In extreme desperation, Tsuruta Numan could only take a few boxes of ashes, send someone to grab a few donkeys to carry them, and continued to look for the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army everywhere around the battlefield.
However, although he did not dare to disobey the orders of his superiors, he had lost confidence in destroying the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army at this time. Coupled with the continuous sweep, while there was also a shortage of provisions, the brigade under his command was itself quite tired. made Tsuruta Numan obviously half-hearted in carrying out the order, and there was no longer the ferocious, undying momentum of the previous one.
As if sleepwalking, Tsuruta Numan took the dissatisfied brigade around him to look for the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army that had disappeared without a trace. At this time, Li Ziyuan, who was moving with the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, did not know that Tsuruta Nunan, an old opponent, had completely lost confidence by himself.
After following the headquarters to a new location, Li Ziyuan, who had already taken over the task of guarding the headquarters inside, arranged the headquarters guard with his own hands. At this moment, he was extremely tired physically and mentally, so he found a random place to fall asleep. Since receiving the fake telegram and setting off from the Hubei battlefield until now, Li Ziyuan has hardly slept well.
Within a few days from the breakthrough from Cross Ridge to the convergence with the division headquarters, the situation was so tense that he didn't even know what it was like to close his eyes. Even after joining up with the division headquarters, because of the continuous transfer and the task of being in charge of vigilance, it was impossible for Li Ziyuan to get a rest.
This time escorting the headquarters personnel back to the headquarters for rendezvous made him even more nervous all the way. Coupled with this bitter battle, as well as the sacrifice of Guo Xiaoshan and Wang Changfeng to save themselves, Li Ziyuan suffered a huge torment and pain in his heart. At present, Li Ziyuan can be said to be exhausted to the extreme.
At this time, he was already extremely tired, and he could no longer restrain the extreme exhaustion of his body and mind. After handing over the duty to He Sanliang, under the condition that the limited houses were given to the headquarters organs and the wounded, he found a random livestock that had long been unknown to him, and the livestock shed full of half a grain of grass fell asleep.
The original correspondent of Zhang Zijian, who had been following him, saw Li Ziyuan falling asleep on the haystack. During this time, I already knew a little about the temper of this chief, and I knew that Li Ziyuan was tired to the peak, and he had reached the point where he couldn't do it without rest.
didn't dare to disturb Li Ziyuan's sleep, so he went to find Ma Yongcheng and asked for a raincoat for Li Ziyuan. and told Ma Yongcheng and He Sanliang where Li Ziyuan was resting, so as not to find anyone if there was something. After Guo Xiaoshan sacrificed, he left behind the 44-type riding spear, which was on the side for Li Ziyuan.