In Beiping, the military conference of the North China Front was still going on. It is not that they have nothing to say about the question of the commander of the front army, Tada Jun, because it is not that they have nothing to say, on the contrary, the haze of the disastrous defeat in the previous war still hangs over the hearts of every officer of the army, and almost all the officers of the army have many opinions and understandings of their own about that battle. Despite this, these people were all shocked by the strong performance of Han Yunhua's subordinates, and temporarily lost the courage to compete with the Inner Mongolia Military Region in Saibei, and they easily did not dare to fight indiscriminately. Even if he still disdains Han Yunhua's subordinates in his heart, no one should talk to Tada Jun on this occasion, because these senior commanders of the army are very experienced generals, and they have already been clear about what Tada Jun wants to express, and no one is willing to take the responsibility for another defeat.

However, due to the strong performance of Han Yunhua's department, almost all the officers of the North China Front Army who started a war with Han Yunhua's department had concerns, you must know that before General Terauchi Shouichi and General Binshan Yuan had asked the senior officers of the entire North China Front Army for their opinions on recovering the northern part of the country, and almost all the officers at that time unanimously believed that it was absolutely possible to eliminate Han Yunhua's department in a short period of time. But it turned out that the strength of Han Yunhua's troops was far more terrifying than imagined, and a few sets of combined punches brought the entire North China Front to the brink of destruction, so when Tada Jun once again put the same problem in front of these people, almost all of them remained silent.

But there are also those who are not afraid of death, Lieutenant General Naojiro Amaya, the commander of the 40th Division who has just been transferred to the battle sequence of the North China Front, is one of the most arrogant among them, speaking of this Naojiro Amaya, there may not be many people who know, but this person is one of the culprits in the Nanjing Massacre, and is the enemy of the blood feud of the entire Chinese nation. However, in terms of important surnames, it is not much smaller than Tada Jun, because Lieutenant General Naojiro Amaya at this time is one of the reserve officers vigorously cultivated by the military department.

Different from the general backbone of the reserve army, reserve officers like Naojiro Amaya are generally the successors trained by the military department, so Naojiro Amaya has always been above the top, and Naojiro Amaya is very disappointed that Lieutenant General Tada Jun has been beaten by the Hanako troops of Shina [***] during this period of time, and he does not even dare to fight back. Therefore, as soon as Lieutenant General Tada Jun finished asking, he hurriedly jumped out: "Your Excellency, you think that Zhina [***] is just a small mouse, and you can't regard it as a big trouble for my empire, especially that Han Yunhua in Saibei and his half-crippled troops are not qualified to be regarded as opponents by our front army or even the imperial base camp. Our henchmen are not in the north but in the south, and it is the Kuomintang and not [***]. ”

Naojiro Amaya's words caused a lot of dissatisfaction, and even Umeko Yamaguchi, who has always disliked fighting with people, frowned. Secretly Dao this Tiangu is really rude, and he doesn't speak through his brain, is this kind of thing said explicitly on such an occasion. If Han Yunhua's department was really so easy to dismiss, it would still be necessary for the Great Empire to send hundreds of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress it, and even the big men in the army like General Binshan Yuan would be affected. If the combat effectiveness of Han Yunhua's subordinates is really not good, it is really a naked insult to those generals who died on the battlefield or were forced to commit suicide because of the drag of Han Yunhua's subordinates, including Tada Jun's meritorious service of turning the tide and ensuring that the situation in North China does not deteriorate.

Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka has fought no less than 20 battles with Han Yunhua's subordinates, from the Yangtze River valley to the Yellow River valley, and no one knows the combat effectiveness of Han Yunhua's subordinates better than him, and no one knows the threat of the Eighth Route Army better than him. Originally, the 10th Division did not belong to the battle sequence of the North China Front, and the reason why it suddenly appeared on the battlefield in Saibei some time ago was entirely due to the transaction between the North China Front and the Central China Front. According to the arrangement of the military department, Yoshio Shinozuka's 10th Division belongs to the permanent division and is one of the earliest 17 infantry divisions of the Yue Army, and its combat effectiveness is far from being comparable to that of ordinary infantry divisions and regiments.

Therefore, the entire 10th Division is also extremely famous among all the infantry divisions of the Japanese army, even Binshan Moto, Tada Jun, Okamura Ninji, Kazuki Kiyoji and others appreciate the 10th Division and the current division commander of the 10th Division, Yoshio Shinozuka. In addition, some time ago, the Central China Front Army had to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Kuomintang in Wuhan, so four field divisions and regiments were mobilized from the North China Front Army to participate in the Second Battle of Wuhan, and all of them also achieved good results.

After defeating the troops of Wuhan with the Nationalist Axe, the Central China Front quickly sent back the four divisions that had been temporarily mobilized, and the 10th Division went north with the army, which was the elite of the Central China Front to support the North China Front.

Yoshio Shinozuka was disgusted by Naojiro Amaya's idiotic statement, which was an insult to the souls of the more than 100,000 imperial soldiers who dedicated their lives to the north of the Emperor for His Majesty. So Yoshio Shinozuka stood up without thinking and refuted: "Amaya-kun, please pay attention to your words and deeds, your statement is extremely irresponsible, I admit that the performance of the entire front army was extremely bad some time ago, but it is not what you imagined, our front army headquarters mobilized almost all the forces that can be used to launch an attack on the Chinese troops in the north of the country is not a whim, but we underestimate the strength of the general of the branch in the north of the country. Coupled with other strategic mistakes, it led to the subsequent disaster. However, this is not a mere tactical mistake, but a mistake in the overall strategic layout of our entire Imperial Army and a serious lack of understanding of our enemy. This further illustrates the depth of the hidden strength of Han Yunhua in the north of Cyprus and the Chinese army under his leadership. Yoshio Shinozuka eased the slightly annoyed emotion just now, and then his voice suddenly increased, and he said loudly: "Gentlemen, I, Yoshio Shinozuka, as the commander of the Lieutenant General of the 10th Division of the Imperial Army, warn everyone, no one should underestimate that General Shina, he is far more terrifying than we imagined. If we treat this army as an ordinary Eighth Route Army, he will definitely shock the world in the next big war, so we must not be in a hurry to deal with such an enemy, and we must think in the long run. ”

"Baga, Shinozuka, isn't it that bullshit Han Yunhua from China who scared you, or the general who raised the branch so much to make excuses for your cowardice, you must know that the military department has launched an investigation into the cause of the last fiasco, and the results of the investigation are about to be announced, so I will show you the bottom in advance. The defeat of Saibei some time ago was not due to the fact that the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army was not as good as that of Han Yunhua's department, but because of the mistake of the old thing in the strategic layout of Binshan Yuan, but I don't care about you, anyway, Binshan Yuan has been ordered by the military department to commit suicide and apologize, and I don't need to worry about anything with a dead man. But I want to remind Shinozuka-kun that you are a general and one of the most elite troops in the battle sequence of my North China Dispatch Army, so to regain the lost territory, then your 10th Division must have full confidence, otherwise it will not be easy to regain the lost territory. "Lieutenant General Naojiro Amaya, because of his family connections and he himself is also extremely appreciated by the military department, so many secrets were known to Naojiro Amaya before they were released, and this time was no exception.

For Naojiro Amaya's words, Yoshio Shinozuka is not unclear, but since the end of the fight with Han Yunhua's subordinates, Yoshio Shinozuka has greatly improved the strength of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, so Yoshio Shinozuka has always insisted that strengthening the work of correcting the law and order of the [***] forces in North China is the most important task at present. And the cunning Han Yunhua said that the Imperial Army was the toughest enemy, so Yoshio Shinozuka continued: "Thank you Tiangu-kun for telling me such a confidential thing, but I don't think what Tiangu-kun said is all correct. Tiangu-kun's words just now certainly have a certain amount of truth, but he doesn't really know the situation of Han Yunhua's department, let alone fight with Han Yunhua's department, so his understanding of Han Yunhua is not comprehensive. There is no doubt about the horror of the Korean part of China, and I don't need to repeat this point anymore. Therefore, I implore Your Excellency the Commander to pay attention to the threat of Han Yunhua's department and the entire Eighth Route Army, and elsewhere in China, Jiang Zhengaxe is indeed the biggest threat to the imperial army, but the power of the Zhina political axe here is not the largest. In the northern part of China, Jiang Zhengaxe's strength can only be regarded as third-rate, except for the Jin Sui Army, which has been sitting in Shanxi and most of Suiyuan's Yan Xishan, and now even the strength of the Eighth Route Army is much stronger than Jiang Zhengaxe's. Therefore, I believe that the Eighth Route Army in Saibei and even in the entire North China region is the biggest threat to my imperial army, and we must pay attention to it. ”

Tada Jun is a wise general in the army, and he is a senior commander who hopes that he can turn the tide in the hope of the military department, so Tada Jun's ability is still undoubted, otherwise he would not have been able to achieve such a high position. So he knows all these things that Yoshio Shinozuka said, but he is not as organized as Yoshio Shinozuka said. After Yoshio Shinozuka said this, Tada Jun himself felt a little bottomless, after all, the previous North China Front Army was not muddy, and its strength was not much weaker than the current North China Front Army. The sense of loss of the previous two North China Front Army was that they were both young and powerful generals, and they were famous veterans in the army, especially General Terauchi Shouichi, who was a descendant of the righteous elders of Terauchi, and his combat command ability was much stronger than him.

But such an army was forced to a dead end in a short period of time by the general surnamed Han in China, and if it were not for his efforts to stabilize the situation during this time, the interests of the empire in North China would have been more seriously threatened. Even if he barely gained a foothold in Saibei during this time, Zhangjiakou, Wanquan and other counties and cities are still controlled by Han Yunhua's subordinates, among which Zhangjiakou, as the northern gateway of Beiping, has seriously threatened the rule of the front army and even the entire empire in North China. The horror of Han Yunhua's subordinates can be imagined, compared to the bombastic Naojiro Amaya, Tada Jun still believes in the famous Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka.

Moreover, Tada Jun knows better that from the Great Wall War of Resistance in May 1933 to the "77" incident in 1937, the invasion of China and the army stationed in Guannei were mainly more than 6,000 Chinese troops stationed in the Pingjin area (the combat unit is the Chinese infantry brigade stationed in the tun) and more than 5,000 people of the Shanghai Special Marine Corps of the 3rd Fleet of the Yueben Navy stationed in the Shanghai area. At that time, it only used such a small number of troops to force the whole of China to its knees, and after the outbreak of the "77" incident, on July 11, the cabinet officially passed the decision to send troops to China, marking the beginning of a full-scale war of aggression against China. On the same day, Lieutenant General Kiyoshi Kazuki, director of education of the Army, was appointed commander of the Chinese garrison to replace the critically ill Wanichiro Tashiro, and the 20th Division of the Army was ordered to urgently mobilize to North China. Since the 20th Division arrived in Tianjin from Korea on July 19, 1937, there have been 39 infantry divisions and 15 mixed brigades in North China, and the garrison in North China exceeded 400,000 at its peak. But in this way, it was still defeated by the Chinese army, and even the commander of the front army had to commit suicide, and the major general and lieutenant general killed and captured countless prisoners, which is enough to prove that the combat effectiveness of the [***] team has been improved to a point where it is enough to make people stand sideways.

"General Shinozuka, then what do you think we should do to deal with the Chinese troops, especially the Han Yunhua department you mentioned." Tada asked aloud.

Yoshio Shinozuka thought for a while and said: "Report to Your Excellency Commander, if you want to deal with the Chinese troops, you must understand their fighting methods and the fundamentals of survival. Only when we fully understand the enemy we are facing can we find a way to solve it. Through the understanding of the special high school course, the communist army has strict discipline, for example, it pays special attention to protecting the monasteries and villages in Wutai and does not destroy them, which makes people feel that they are very able to unite the masses and win the hearts of the people. On the part of the communist army, in order to win the support of the people, the requirements for military discipline were extremely strict. During the march, pears from roadside trees were picked and given to the captives, who refused to accept them, saying that the peasants could not eat whatever they wanted. Another example is a soldier of the Eighth Route Army who was detained in the Longhua County Public Security Bureau, who was once punished for secretly talking to a woman while camping in a certain village. The most common is that the communist army takes advantage of the terrain and often ambushes our transport troops. As a result, the roads in the southern part of the country, which are steep, are impassable due to poor security. In the north, transport links must also be heavily guarded. Even the long-distance bus between Taiyuan and Yuci was attacked by the communist army and other accidents. The city is safe, but the outside is dangerous, and only 50 of the 95 counties in Shanxi Province can still obey the empire. Between Taiyuan and Yuncheng, the train between Taiyuan and Datong runs twice every day, and the tracks are damaged. The number of incidents of vandalism of power lines and poles at night has not decreased to this day. The communist army's incursions into the areas occupied by our country have become more and more frequent, and this has become the most serious problem in the work of rectification in the future. ”

"Shinozuka-kun's analysis is very reasonable, but how to deal with the Shina troops, I want to hear your opinion?" Tada continued.

"In order to deal with the Chinese troops, it is necessary to do the following: first, to keep the combat intentions strictly secret, and to be thoroughly familiar with night operations. Second, all units should be trained in mine search and handling and should carry the necessary equipment. Thirdly, in order to break through the steep terrain, it is necessary to prepare hemp ropes, cane rods, spare horseshoes, etc., and it is necessary to train the horses. Fourthly, all means should be taken to ensure that communication is unimpeded, and spare radios should be carried. Fifth, it is also necessary to conduct radio tapping and prepare secret reconnaissance teams. Sixth, the method of encirclement compression should be studied, taking into account, in particular, the difficulties of communicating with each other and plugging gaps in mountainous areas. Yoshio Shinozuka picked up a cup of strong tea on the conference table and took a few sips and continued: "The specific method is to treat others in the way of others, isn't the discipline of the Shina army strict, then we will make their reputation stinky and ruined, our army can vigorously cultivate troops like the Mashiko Advance Team, and at the same time improve the status of the Shina New Deal Axe, after all, they are a good weapon for us to eliminate the Eighth Route Army, and stop beating and insulting the new regime's armed forces, officials, and civil servants in the past, and implement a policy of softness....... ”

Yoshio Shinozuka spoke in great detail and his advice was quite reasonable, and he had a high viable surname. Subsequently, Umeko Yamaguchi read out some relevant information about the Saibei Central [***] team on behalf of the entire Tegaoke, the most important of which was the information meeting on Han Yunhua's department. Immediately afterwards, Lieutenant General Yukio Kasahara, chief of staff of the Front Army, made a report on the deadly scourge of public order in North China in the future, pointing out that the Eighth Route Army was the greatest enemy of the imperial army in the northern part of the country, and only by breaking this anti-war organization based on the organic integration of the army, the government, the party, and the people could it be the foundation of law and order at the present stage.

This meeting was quite important for the entire North China Front, although it was only a military meeting at the level of the Front. Only a few dozen officers attended the meeting, but it made all the officers realize that the communist army was a fatal scourge to public order in North China, and in view of this situation, it concretely studied the comprehensive and organized intelligence gathering work, which laid the tone for the next campaign, and thus we can see the importance of its significance.

(To be continued)