Chapter 1009: New Year's Gift (continued)
The Legend of the Red Star of Rebirth 1009, the Legend of the Red Star of Rebirth Chapter 100 Chapter 9 New Year's Gift
This article comes from the fact that the little ghost surrounded the base area in central and southern Lu with heavy troops, and while rushing to repair railways and highways, he also launched a crazy sweep in other base areas and implemented the cage policy. If it weren't for the support of the tunnel network, Jizhong, southern Hebei, southwest Luxi, Jilubian, and Jiaodong would have been completely occupied by the Japanese army.
The Chinese New Year was about to begin, Liu Yimin found Li Lingfeng, Wang Tongsheng and Wang Laohu, and said to the three of them with a calm face: "We have such a powerful special forces, and we even let the little ghost's special combat team go to the headquarters and wound the chief of staff who stayed in the inner line to command. This is a disgrace to the Special Operations Command! It is the shame of our whole army in Shandong! The chief of staff's hatred must be reported immediately, and any more day of delay will be a point of shame for us. This time, all the armed forces in the central and southern areas of Shandong were dispatched to form three assault groups, and at the same time launched a strong attack on the enemy in southern Lunan, Tai'an, and central Lu, opened the way with powerful artillery fire, tore a hole in the Japanese defense line, and destroyed the Japanese railway. You have to take the opportunity to hún into the ghost defense line, form multiple special combat arrows, kill him and avenge the chief of staff! The primary target is the imp's special combat team; followed by railways, highways and bridges, which completely erased the road construction achievements of the little ghosts in the early stage, so that they had to start all over again; The third is the commanders and special forces at all levels who hunt ghosts. Do you have faith? ”
Avenging Zeng Zhongsheng was one reason, and another reason was that Liu Yimin wanted to fight the Japanese army's plan to repair the railway and establish a blockade line, and further mobilize the Japanese army to concentrate on Jiaoji Road, Jinpu Road, and Longhai Road.
Tada Jun was engaged in driving the tiger into the cage, trapping the main force of the Shandong Eighth Route Army in the mountainous area of central and southern Shandong, covering his sweep of other base areas of the Eighth Route Army; Liu Yimin wants to turn Lu Zhongnan into a powerful magnet, absorb the main force of the little ghost to the magnet, and cover other base areas to sweep back. The tip of the needle is on the wheat mang. It depends on who hits whose seven inches first.
Li Lingfeng, Wang Tongsheng, and Wang Laohu have now completed their rest. was stabbed by Liu Yimin, and the three of them "snapped" and stood upright, shouting: "Kill!" ”
Liu Yimin nodded, and waited for Li Lingfeng to immediately formulate a special operation plan and implement it immediately.
Liu Yimin wanted to give a New Year's gift to the little ghost, and in the headquarters of the North China Front, Tada Jun was also discussing with Yoshizumi Ryosuke, Hirata Masaki, Kinoshita Toshi, Yoshioka and others to send a New Year's gift to the Eighth Route Army.
The battle was fought at this time. In the grand strategic scheme, the commanders of both sides are counted together.
Liu Yimin wanted to fight the rhythm of the Japanese army's construction of railways and highways and the construction of blockade lines, bleed the little ghosts, and let the little ghosts' military, financial, and material resources be consumed as much as possible on Jiaoji Road, Jinpu Road, and Longhai Road, covering other base areas to fight against Dàng and restore the base areas.
Tada Jun is not stupid, knowing that Liu Yimin's strength is resting and replenishing in central and southern Lu. Once Liu Yimin's strength is completed and replenished, he will be a tiger trapped in a cage and eager to get out of trouble. No matter where this hungry tiger pounces, it will inevitably bite its opponent bloodied. Tada Jun didn't want to be bitten by a tiger, he wanted to preemptively hit Liu Yimin to rest and replenish the rhythm. Let them be in the process of resting and replenishing all the time, and they don't care about the trouble of the Japanese army.
Through the sweep in the early stage, the intelligence system of the Japanese army was restored, and it was able to provide some intelligence support for the troops' operations. Yoshioka, the head of the special service of the North China Front, finally knew the number of the Shandong Eighth Route Army. The first type is the main force that starts with the word "teaching", with a total of eight teaching brigades. This is Liu Yimin's real main force, which Liu Yimin brought over from the Red Army's Long March, and it is also the capital of his and the imperial army; The second type is the newly organized brigade, which is slightly inferior to the teaching brigades in terms of equipment and strength, and is also the main force. also eight; The third category is detachments and garrison brigades, with three detachments, namely the Tai'an Detachment, the Southeastern Lunan Detachment, and the Logistics Detachment, and nine garrison brigades, including the Taixi Garrison Brigade, the Jinan Garrison Brigade, the Qinghe Garrison Brigade, the Luzhong Garrison Brigade, the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade, the Luxi Garrison Brigade, the Luxi Second Garrison Brigade, the Southwest Luxi Garrison Brigade, and the Lunan Garrison Brigade. The combat effectiveness of the garrison brigades is uneven, and those that were formed early and have been tempered by many battles are also the main force, and some garrison brigades that have been formed for a short time, such as the Lunan Garrison Brigade, have no artillery fire and have poor combat effectiveness; The fourth category is the local armed forces. Mainly independent regiments, independent battalions, county brigades, district squads, and militia units in various localities, all of which were lightly armed, and those who fought guerrilla warfare in the rear of the imperial army and involved the imperial army's strength were mainly these local armed forces whose conscience was greatly damaged. Liu Yimin's main force was mainly used in the big war. In addition, Liu Yimin's department has cavalry brigades, artillery brigades, air defense brigades, engineer brigades, baggage brigades, and heavy machine gun brigades, of which the heavy machine gun brigade has only one regiment, which is used for fire support in large battles.
Unfortunately, Yoshioka is not able to provide more detailed information on the names of the commanders of the units of the Eighth Route Army, their combat styles, and the firepower of the troops. That's it, Tada Jun couldn't help but be overjoyed, praised Yoshioka many times, patted Yoshioka on the shoulder and shouted Yo Nishi. Because Terauchi Shouichi or Shanshan Yuan fought with Liu Yimin's department for more than two years, neither of them knew the number of Liu Yimin's troops, only he was clear about Tada Jun.
Since Nòng cleared the numbers of the various units of the Eighth Route Army, Tadajun's combat goals were clear, and his New Year's gift to the Eighth Route Army was basically formed.
According to Tadajun's plan, it was to seize the traditional customs of the Chinese to celebrate the chūn festival and take the Eighth Route Army by surprise. In Tadajun's words, the Eighth Route Army usually drills ravines and tunnels, and during the Chinese New Year, they always have to come out to breathe the wind and eat dumplings, right? What the Imperial Army wanted was this opportunity, to take the Eighth Route Army by surprise when it was most paralyzed.
In accordance with Tada's guiding ideology, Chief of Staff Yoshizumi Ryosuke drew up a battle plan. This battle plan was very dangerous, it was to secretly cross Chencang on the plank road in the Ming Dynasty and concentrate the army on three routes to attack the mountainous areas of central and southern Lu, but in fact it aimed the spearhead at the Second Brigade of the Teaching Brigade, the New Second Brigade, the Luxi Garrison Brigade, and the Second Brigade of the Luxi Garrison in the Luxi area. In Tada's words, it is to fight a complete dàng Ping Luxi.
To this end, the North China Front planned to mobilize the 1st Guards Division, the 32nd Division, the 36th Division, the 17th and 18th Brigades of the Independent Hún, and the Li Wenli Department of the puppet army to launch an attack from Anqiu, Gaomi, and Jiaoxian to the north-central part of central Shandong; mobilize the 29th Division, the 114th Division, the 9th Division, the Manchurian Tǐng Army, the Independent Hún into the 22nd Brigade and the Xuzhou Garrison to attack Lunan; The 2nd Guards Division, the 12th Division, and the 27th Division were mobilized to attack from central and western Shandong.
The three-way army encircled central and southern Lu, which seemed to be violent, but in fact, the Japanese army's battle plan made it clear that it was a limited attack. The northern route is only allowed to attack the first line of Zhucheng. The south road is only allowed to attack the first line of Tancheng, and the east road is only allowed to capture Fei County, and no army is allowed to attack the hinterland of the mountainous area in central and southern Shandong to avoid being ambushed by the Eighth Route Army. Because Liu Yimin was in central and southern Lu, whether it was Tada Jun or Yoshizumi Ryosuke, they all had scruples and were afraid of repeating the tragedy of one or two divisions being wiped out.
At the same time as the three-way army encircled central and southern Lu. The Japanese army planned to mobilize the 37th Division stationed at Deshi Road, the 40th Division stationed in Dexian, the 41st Division stationed in Liaocheng, and the puppet North China Security Army of four groups, and launched a large-scale sweep in Luxi, find the main force of the Luxi Army of the Eighth Route Army, and encircle and annihilate it.
In order to cooperate with the sweep of Luxi, the North China Front ordered the Japanese troops stationed in southern Hebei, central Hebei, Hebei Lubian, northwest Shanxi, southwest Lu, and Jiaodong to launch a sweeping operation to attract the attention of the Eighth Route Army and cover the operational intentions of Luxi.
After reading the battle plan, Tada Jun said to Yoshizumi Ryosuke, Hirata Masaki, Kinoshita Toshita, and Yoshioka: "Yo Sai! No matter how cunning Liu Yimin is, he can't imagine that my real target is Lu Xi. Luxi has the 2nd Brigade and the New 2nd Brigade of Liu Yimin's Department Jīng Rui, as well as the Luxi Garrison Brigade and the Luxi Garrison 2nd Brigade. The strength of a full four brigades. There is also a large number of local armed forces. As long as we succeed in attacking Luxi, it will be equivalent to cutting off one of Liu Yimin's arms. Without the Eighth Route Army in Luxi, the Eighth Route Army in Hebei and Lubian, the Eighth Route Army in southwest Lu, the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei, and the Eighth Route Army in Hebei have all become ghosts at the bottom of the kettle, and they can only be eliminated by the imperial army one by one. Wait until we have eliminated the Eighth Route Army in these areas. You can wave the army to the east and solve the Eighth Route Army in Qinghe, Jiaolai, Jiaodong, and Taixi. Hmph, Liu Yimin's entrenched mountainous area in central and southern Lu will eventually become an isolated island, and starvation will starve him to death! Ladies and gentlemen, how about this New Year's gift we prepared for Liu Yimin? ”
There was a hint of coldness in Tada's words, but it was extremely useful to listen to the ears of Yoshizumi Ryosuke and others. Several old ghosts all had red faces. Laugh.
Tada Jun now has sufficient troops at hand, and after this period of replenishment, the Japanese troops have regained their combat effectiveness. It's just that the supplies are not sufficient, which is also one of the main reasons why Tada Jun strictly ordered that the troops attacking central and southern Lu could only feint.
There is another reason, since the Eighth Route Army launched the Lunan Campaign, the main force of the 10th Division rebuilt by the Japanese army was annihilated, and the 38th Division was annihilated. The Shijiazhuang garrison was completely annihilated, the Qingdao garrison was completely annihilated, the Abe brigade was completely annihilated, and the North China Front became synonymous with defeat. Although Tada Jun commanded the heavy army group to capture a large area of land in the base area of the Eighth Route Army, he had to defend it with heavy troops, which consumed a lot of war resources. The Japanese government and opposition have long been criticizing the North China Front. The newly appointed Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yonechi even proposed to replace the commander of the North China Front and send more offensive generals to deal with the Eighth Route Army. Don't look at Tadajun's request to resign at every turn as soon as he suffers a major defeat, and even have to disembowel, in fact, he is not willing to lose this position at this time, because he still hopes to receive the Golden Jī Medal and the rank of general in the post of commander of the North China Front!
The third reason is that in recent times, due to the siege of the mountainous area of central and southern Shandong by the Japanese army's heavy army group, the 115th Division knocked out the Abe brigade, and the Japanese First Army's sweep of the base area of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi had to come to an abrupt end. In this way, the Eighth Route Army in the two main battlefields of Shanxi and Shandong began to launch offensive operations, ambushing small units of the Japanese army and heavy troops, pulling out the scattered strongholds of the Japanese puppet army, and actively restoring the base areas.
The fourth reason is that the Japanese army's work to repair railways and highways is progressing smoothly. Longhai Road has been completely repaired and opened to traffic, Jiaoji Road has also been restored to traffic, Jinpu Road only has a few sections of Lunan Road that have not been repaired, and it will not be long before the whole line can be opened to traffic. Moreover, the construction of Deshi Road has also been carried out in full swing, and if nothing else, it will be completed and opened to traffic in July and August this year.
What Tada Jun needs most now is time, the time to repair the railways and highways, and build the Jiāo Tong blockade network, and he is desperate to launch an offensive operation so that the Eighth Route Army cannot sabotage his plan to build railways and implement the cage policy.
Several reasons came together to force Tada Jun to launch a retaliatory operation under insufficient preparation, in order to achieve a major result, improve the law and order situation in North China, and also change the perception of the local government and opposition on the North China Front.
Tada ordered Yoshioka to collect information by all means and provide the attacking forces with as much information as possible. For example, the exact location of the main force of the Luxi Eighth Route Army.
Tada Jun made it clear that the front army command supported the use of nvsè to seduce, the purchase of golden tickets, and the severe torture of prisoners, no matter what methods the secret services adopted. There is only one purpose, that is, to obtain accurate information about the Eighth Route Army.
Yoshioka performed well during this time, and was commended by Tada Jun many times, and saw that he became the second big spy head and celebrity of the North China Front Army after Kita Seiichi, and his ambition also swelled, and he was anxious to be a lieutenant general, eager to perform, and carried out Tadajun's orders thoroughly and resolutely, and loudly promised to resolutely complete the task in front of Tada Jun.
Kinoshita's Third Flight Group had a heavy task, because the Xuzhou and Jinan airports had not yet been repaired, and the Japanese army was afraid that the Eighth Route Army would attack the airfield again, so they did not dare to build the advance airfield too close to the battlefield, resulting in a great increase in flight costs. In particular, because the United States suspended the Japan-US trade treaty on navigation, it is no longer possible for the Japanese army to get a liter of gasoline from the United States, and can only use reserve gasoline, and the military department has begun to control the use of aviation gasoline. Kinoshita had to think about fuel consumption for long-distance battles.
Not only Kinoshita Toshitoshi had to think about the fuel issue, but also Tada Jun and the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Dispatch Army, Nishio Shouzo, had to think about this issue, and even Lu Xiang Sugimoto and Prince Miyazaihito of the General Staff Station had to think about this issue. The entire Japanese military leadership has now hated the Americans to the core, believing that the Americans are an obstacle to the expansion of the Japanese army's aggression. Think about it, if there is not enough fuel, the planes can't fly, the warships can't drive, and the chariots, armored vehicles, cars, and motorcycles are all lying on their stomachs, what is the difference between the Japanese army and navy and the Chinese army?
The Japanese base camp is now secretly making plans for war against Britain and the United States, and has begun to collect intelligence on Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia.
No matter how tight the fuel is, Kinoshita still has to support the North China Front's operations, right? It's just that we can no longer dispatch a large fleet of aircraft as in the past, and we have to reduce the size of the fleet to maintain continuous air cover.
Everything was ready, and Tada Jun set the time for the Japanese army's attack on all fronts at 7 o'clock in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
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