Chapter 713: Turning Point (Sixth Update!) )
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Isamu Yokoyama is now the highest-ranking officer in the eastern Hebei region, and coupled with the special status of the First Division in the history of the Japanese army, although this battle was dominated by the North China Front, Isamu Yokoyama was still the supreme commander in the eastern Hebei region. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although the commander sounds very majestic and domineering, Isamu Yokoyama knows better that power is not only accompanied by prestige, but also responsibility. If the current battle does not achieve the expected goal, if the base camp is held accountable, Lieutenant General Tada Jun will certainly be duty-bound, and he, the supreme commander of the eastern Hebei side, will not escape the blame.
After pondering in the command tent for more than ten minutes, Isamu Yokoyama suddenly said loudly: "Order, the 1st Infantry Brigade and the 1st Wing of the Field Artillery continue to attack the West Brain Pack, and the 49th Infantry Wing continues to attack the Pig Brain Mountain. The 3rd Wing and the 57th Wing of the 2nd Infantry Brigade attacked the outer positions of Qian'an from the northeast. Tell Koura Taro and Fukuhara Kojiro that they only have three days, and if they still don't make progress in three days, let them explain it to His Excellency the Commander themselves. ”
After doing all this, Yokoyama Yong was still not at ease, after all, the combat effectiveness shown by the Eighth Route Army was so strong. And the momentum of seeing death as if it were home is far stronger than the elite of the Nationalist Government, perhaps only the 74th Army of Wang Yaowu and Zhang Lingfu and Du Yongming's Fifth Army of the Nationalist Government can overwhelm this Eighth Route Army in momentum.
After thinking about it, Yokoyama felt that the strength of the eastern Hebei side was still a little weak, so he sent a telegram to the North China Front Headquarters, hoping that Tada Jun could send them some more reinforcements.
And Tada Jun's reply was also very simple, there were no more infantry, and now that the whole of North China was in a big war, how could he have so many idle troops. However, the air force can transfer some of them to the past, and Tada Jun is also preparing to transfer the special combat team of Hattori's Kuratomi to eastern Hebei to coordinate the operation.
Although the reinforcements he wanted did not go as he wished, Isamu Yokoyama was also extremely happy. He knew the strength of the special combat team very clearly, and during the second battle of Wuhan half a year ago, the North China Front sent the only two infantry squadrons of special operations units to the front line to fight with the 15th Division and the 3rd Division.
To be honest, compared with the first Battle of Wuhan, the Nationalist Government's preparations for the Second Battle of Wuhan were still very sufficient, both in terms of the quantity and quality of troops were much stronger than the First Battle of Wuhan, and the Navy and Air Force were also on standby at any time, planning to fight a main decisive battle with the Central China Front on the periphery of Wuhan.
Moreover, this time the commander of the armies from all walks of life is still full of experience, but Chen Cheng and Minister Chen, it stands to reason that no matter how much you fight this time, there should not be a big rout like the one in the end.
But the result was that the two sides only fought for less than two months, and the Nationalist Government lost Wuhan and finally had to withdraw from Wuhan. Of course, there was a strategic mistake on the part of the Nationalist Government, but the irrational tactical arrangements and the strong combat effectiveness of the Japanese army were also reasons that could not be ignored.
The divisions and regiments that shone in the Second Battle of Wuhan had one thing in common, that is, they all had special forces to cooperate in the operation. Moreover, because of the cooperation of the special forces, the intelligence of the various units almost did not need to be collected by the special high-tech department, and the situation of the enemy forces on the opposite side would be sent to the headquarters of the division commanders the night before.
The enemy's troop deployment, troop number, number, firepower, military commander's name, age, graduation school, preferences, and so on can be collected by any special combat team you can imagine, and then in response to these situations, the division commanders on the front line formulate detailed battle plans, and almost all of them are implemented immediately, thus avoiding the leakage of the battle plan, and under the multi-pronged approach, the national government will inevitably be defeated and defeated.
At the same time, the various novel tactics of the special combat team also made the high-ranking officers of the Japanese army dumbfounded, and the methods of sniping at the enemy's officers and technical units on the battlefield, assassinating at night, touching the sentry and scratching the tongue, and so on, even the location of the enemy's arsenal could be figured out and destroyed at all costs.
It is precisely because of the cooperation of the special combat team that the Central China Dispatch Army will be like a fish in water on the battlefield in Wuhan, and every battle will be fought heartily and brilliantly.
This time, the battle situation in eastern Hebei seemed confusing, and the Eighth Route Army changed its previous habit of guerrilla warfare and started a positional war with the Imperial Japanese Army, and even prepared to fight the main decisive battle with the Imperial Army in Qian'an, so Yokoyama Yong subconsciously thought of Hattori's special combat team, and Yokoyama believed that with the cooperation of the special combat team, no matter how strong the defensive line was, it would not be difficult to be torn apart.
Speaking of which, I have to talk about the Japanese officers of this era, who are full of inexplicable self-confidence just like the Japanese government of this era. Many times their contempt for their opponents is groundless, so absurd, that only when they suffer losses do they know how arrogant and ridiculous they are.
It is as if the Japanese army felt that the entire Chinese army was vulnerable before it invaded China, and even the Japanese military leaders openly declared that the Chinese soldiers were a group of farmers with weapons, and that as long as the Japanese Empire sent 10 divisions to China, it would be able to completely occupy this large country 30 times the size of Japan.
Not to mention the arrogant Yokoyama Yong commanding tens of thousands of troops and Liu Fengchi's troops to fight to the death in the Qian'an area, this will definitely be a battle to the death without the slightest retreat, and its tragedy can be imagined.
However, for Ma Zheng, Liu Fengchi's desperate resistance was extremely meaningful, although Liu Fengchi's troops would inevitably suffer heavy casualties, but it laid the foundation for the victory of the entire conference battle.
Although Tadajun's tactics of flowering on all sides were powerful, the Japanese army seriously underestimated the strength of Ma Zheng's troops, and Ma Zheng was able to deal with the Japanese army with fewer troops than them with a huge lineup. However, it was not the Suicha Military Region that took the first turn in the battle, but the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the Jizhong Military Region.
This time, the Japanese army used to sweep the occupied area with the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade, the 1st and 2nd Independent Infantry Wings, the 2nd Cavalry Wing of the Front Army, and the 2nd Cavalry Regiment of the Puppet North China Public Security Army, totaling more than 20,000 people, and its commander was Numata Shigetoku.
Originally, in the opinion of Lieutenant General Tadajun, for the Suicha Military Region, which is less than a thousand miles apart, the so-called Jincha-Hebei Military Region and the Jizhong Military Region are actually paper tigers, and 20,000 people are enough to eradicate them.
Moreover, according to the information detected by the intelligence organs, the vast majority of the main forces of the Eighth Route Army in central Hebei are concentrated in the Taihang Mountains, Wutai Mountains, and other mountainous areas, and if they are not familiar with the terrain, it will be useless to go to as many people as they want; in addition, according to the information transmitted by the special high-tech department, the Eighth Route Army's Jizhong Military Region was established for a very short time, and it has not been more than a year now, and its strength is not strong.
In order to achieve the strategic goal of eliminating the Jizhong Military Region and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region in one fell swoop, Tada Jun, an old devil, sent Numata Shigetoku and his second brigade to the Jin-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. Because this independent mixed second brigade was originally an old unit of Abe Norihide, a well-known mountain combat brigade in the Japanese army, sending this brigade to the central Hebei region to sweep was completely the right medicine.
In addition, considering that there are still a large number of plains in Jizhong, Tada Jun insisted on dividing the already small cavalry unit into a cavalry wing in Jizhong, and Tada Jun believed that on the Jizhong Plain, a cavalry wing with extremely strong mobility can definitely be worth an infantry brigade.
However, to everyone's expectations, less than half a month after Numata Shigetoku led his troops to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region defense area, news came that the independent mixed second brigade had suffered a crushing defeat and that Lieutenant General Numata Shigetoku had been killed.
The telegram jointly issued by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the Jizhong Military Region can be said to have stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and the Chinese and Japanese armies, who were already holding their breath, were taken aback, and in particular, Duotian Jun, who was sitting in Beiping, vomited blood directly when he received the telegram from the special high-tech department, and ordered the troops attacking the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to immediately return to Dingzhou and wait for a new order from the front army. (To be continued.) )