After a while, Otaka Kamezo realized that Lieutenant General Maeda was looking down on him, openly challenging his authority, and giving him a disgrace.

It's worth it! Ozaka Kamizo stood up all of a sudden, stared at a pair of eyes that wanted to eat people, pointed at Maeda Osamu and scolded: "Baga! Your 35th Division and Tubalu will collapse at the touch of a button, and even the crotch cloth will be taken off when you run, and you will lose the face of this Imperial Army, and you still dare to speak disrespectfully to this commander, which is simply the extreme! ”

Hitting people doesn't slap their faces, scolding people doesn't expose their shortcomings, Maeda Osamu and Odaka Kamezo expose each other's shortcomings as soon as they come up, naturally they are taboos, can there be good fruits in this quarrel?

Sure enough, Maeda immediately ridiculed him: "My 35th Division is a newly formed garrison division, and they are all a group of newly recruited recruits. However, you, who commanded the elite 19th Division, were reckless and stupid, and took the risk of attacking without knowing the enemy's situation, resulting in heavy casualties among the 19th Division. A commander like you, that's the best of Baga! ”

The two old devils began to fight like this, Otaka Kamizo scolded Maeda Osamu for being cowardly as a mouse, and Maeda scolded Otaka Kamezo The son of a farmer knew that he was brutal, and he almost used a knife in the end. It was Major General Kobayashi Asaburo, chief of staff of the 12th Army, who saw that it was not a drama and threatened to report to the base camp, so that the two did not fight.

After calming down for a while, Ogaka Kamizo felt a little remorse in his heart, thinking that he was shouldering a heavy responsibility, and he could not spread the anger he received from the Soviets on the Shandong garrison, in that case, he would not be able to do it as a military commander. You must know that the commanders of these divisions are all directly under His Majesty the Emperor, not to mention that they are army commanders, even if the commander of the North China Front wants to deal with them, it must be approved by the Emperor.

Thinking of this, the angry Odaka Kamizo had to back down slightly, stood up and bowed to Maeda Osa, changed his previous arrogance, and said: "Maeda-kun, it was indeed a little impulsive just now, mainly to stimulate the situation in Shandong. Please forgive Maeda-kun. In the next battle, I would like to ask Maeda-kun to take care of me. ”

In fact, everyone present knew that Otaka Kamizo and Osamu Maeda had a falling out, and no matter how good they sounded, it was impossible to save them. However, Maeda Osamu also felt remorse in his heart at this time, because he knew that although he also graduated from the Army University, he was still a well-known artillery expert in the army, but no matter what, if a division commander and the commander of the army directly under him had a fight, then the last unlucky person must be the division commander. What's more, although Otaka Kamezo is reckless and unwise, he is a classmate of Okamura Ninji, Dohihara and the dead Itagaki Seishiro, and those people can't afford to mess with.

Maeda Osamu thought it was not bad at all, if it weren't for Liu Yimin who eliminated the cavalry wing and field artillery wing of the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division, and forced Itagaki Seishiro to commit suicide by disembowelment, at this time in history, Itagaki Seishiro was acting as the land minister of the cabinet, which was a red and purple position, and it was definitely not something that the little Maeda Osamu could offend.

Seeing the soft eggs hidden by the tail turtle, although Maeda Osamu despises the roughness of the tail turtle in his heart, he also knows that this is a step for himself, and if he misses this village, there will be no such shop, and if he continues to make trouble, the tail high turtle is naturally not good, and he has no good fruit. Therefore, he immediately bowed to Ozaka Kamizo, and a string of bird words came out of his mouth, which means Your Excellency Commander, I was offended just now, please take care of me.

Although Otaka Kamizo is known as a brave general in the military circles and is known for his recklessness, he graduated from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School and the Army University after all, and if he was completely reckless, he would not be able to sit in his current position. Therefore, as soon as he saw that Maeda was soft, Otaka Kamizo no longer held any military meetings, so he simply led a group of commanders of the devil division, under the leadership of the commander of the Jinan garrison, to a restaurant that he opened and drank wildly. In the end, several division commanders simply hugged a maid by themselves, and regardless of whether it was cold or not, they picked up the essence on the tatami mat and began to have promiscuity.

Not to mention, if anyone's relationship is to be truly iron, it really has to be honest. After this chaotic exchange, no one in the division commanders said that Odaka Kamizo was more than reckless and resourceful enough, and one by one he happily said that His Excellency the commander was endowed with heroic martial arts and outstanding talents, so strong and long-lasting, and he must have marched forward bravely and made great achievements in battle.

The next morning, Odaka Kamezo summoned his division commanders to another meeting. This time, Odaka Kamizo learned the lesson of yesterday and no longer scolded him, but asked the commanders of each division to report on the battle situation of their respective units.

During this period of time, all units of the Eighth Route Army actively carried out the campaign of cold guns and cold artillery, and although the results of each battle were not great, they did not dare to settle accounts, and once they settled the accounts, they knew that this tactic was very powerful, and all units of the army were dying every day, and the attrition was very serious, and they had to apply for supplementation after a while. Therefore, Lieutenant General Shimoto Kumaya, the commander of the 10th 8th Division, who first reported, said at the beginning of the report that the Tubalu was too cunning and that there was a problem with the strategy of the imperial army.

At this time, Yuan Xiong Mi once led the 24th Brigade to attack Wusongkou during the 128th Songhu War of Resistance, and was also an executioner whose hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese. Historically, on June 22, 1938, he was relieved of his post as commander of the 10th and 8th Division, served as attached to the General Staff Headquarters, and was immediately transferred to the reserve and escaped the judgment of history. But now it is different from history, the army has lost troops one after another, Emperor Hirohito ordered all troops in China to stop being transferred back to the mainland for rest, and Shimoto Kumanya has not been dismissed, and is still the commander of his 108th Division.

Xiong Ya Shimoto also graduated from the Army University, and served as the vanguard of the war of aggression against China, with both strategic knowledge and combat experience. He said that it was useless to say that the Tubalu was too cunning, but he said that if there was a problem with the strategy of the imperial army, it was worth pondering.

All the chiefs looked at Xia Yuan Xiong Mi to see what he said.

The meaning of Xia Yuan Xiong Mi is very simple, that is, the imperial army has fallen into a strange circle strategically and is led by the nose by the Chinese. Generally speaking, at the beginning of the war, from the original intention of the base camp, it was only to expand the occupied area in North China, and if it wanted to fight, it was also fought in North China, but as a result, Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army actually moved in Songhu in order to save the crisis in North China, so that the empire had to fight on both sides. Now it is said that all the forces of this empire have fallen into the war against China, and the strength of the preparation for war against the Soviet Union has been greatly reduced, and once something happens, it will inevitably be caught off guard. Judging from each battle, in addition to the rapid progress and good results at the beginning of the war, after the Eighth Route Army entered the war, the imperial army was basically led by the nose of the Eighth Route Army. This is the case on the Shanxi battlefield, the Pingjin battlefield, and the Shandong battlefield. Just like the last time, General Terauchi Shouichi mobilized 700,000 troops to encircle and suppress Liu Yimin's instructor, but not only did he not eliminate the instructor of the Eighth Route Army, but lost the elite of the 10th Division. Seeing that the Eighth Route Army was surrounded in Jiaodong and could be wiped out in one go, no one would have thought that Liu Yimin would break out of his shell and capture Lianyungang. At this time, it was supposed to be a part of the main force to pursue the main force of the instructor, concentrate most of the troops to attack Jiaodong, and annihilate all the troops left by Liu Yimin in Jiaodong, but I don't know how the base camp thought about it, and the main force went south, leaving only the 108th Division and the 33rd Division to fight in Jiaodong. The two divisions said that there were 40,000 men, but the Tu Balu was so cunning and the terrain was familiar, and the strength of the two divisions and regiments, except for those who protected the baggage and covered the lines of communication, was really only half of the men and horses used for the attack. With only this centaur, how can the encirclement be stuck? It's good now, the Eighth Route Army in the encirclement has slipped away, and it has returned to the plains to fight guerrillas with the imperial army, and it has revived!

Speaking of this, Xia Yuan Xiong Mi sighed and sighed: "The branch is too big, we have tried our best, but the troops are still insufficient, there are loopholes everywhere, the earth eight roads are like swimming fish in the sea, take a bite and slip away, it is simply the extreme of Baga!" ”

Odaka Kamizo said a "Baga Extreme", and immediately Maeda Osamu and Shimoto Kumaya also learned it, and when they scolded each other, they said "Baga Extreme", and when they scolded each other, they also said that the Eighth Route Army also said that Baga was extreme, and the headquarters of the 12th Army of the Army simply became the world of Baga.

Xia Yuan Xiong Mi's next report is nothing worth talking about, except that he is fighting every day and losing every day, but he has never captured the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

The commanders of several other divisions reported more simply, saying that after General Toshiroku Hata commanded the main force to launch the Battle of Wuhan, all divisions and regiments were ordered to protect the lines of communication and maintain law and order in the occupied areas. But now the situation has changed, and without waiting for the imperial army to advance and suppress, the small units of the Eighth Route Army launched an active offensive one by one, sending grain convoys, small strongholds, patrols, and sentinels. Organize a large army to suppress, in addition to being able to burn, kill and rob, even the shadow of the Eighth Route Army cannot be found. Once a small unit of the Imperial Army moves, it will always encounter an attack by the Eighth Road, and it is bound to suffer heavy casualties. The best way is to kill the Chinese, but they can't grab food after they are all killed. What should be done, please ask the commander to make it clear.

After eating and drinking and having promiscuous relations with the division commanders last night, Odaka Kamizo felt that his relationship had become closer, and he could carry out his combat intentions. Therefore, after listening to the reports of several division commanders, they immediately began to make operational arrangements.

According to the instructions of Emperor Hirohito when Otaka Kamezo Jin met with the emperor, the task of the 12th Army was to clear the remnants of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong and restore law and order in Shandong. As for the specific battle plan, the base camp already had a plan, and the staff officers of the Otaka Kamizo and the base camp operations section also had a brief discussion, that is, to carry out divisional clearance and suppression with the garrisons in various areas of Shandong as the mainstay, and after the task was completed, concentrate on sweeping away the remnants of the Eighth Route Army encircling and suppressing the Taiyi Mountains. In this way, the task of each division and regiment of the Chinese Army is very clear, that is, they are responsible for the task of sweeping and clearing their own garrison areas, and completely extinguishing the remnants of the Eighth Route Army and local armed forces.

After Otaka Kamizo asked the chief of staff, Major General Kobayashi Asaburo, to explain the operation and the situation, the commander of the 10th and 8th Division, Kumaya Shimomoto, asked him to strengthen his strength, otherwise he would not be able to complete the task. The reason is that most of the Eighth Route Army, which was originally in Jiaodong, flowed to the Qinghe, Jiaolai and Luzhong areas, and its activities were extremely rampant, often attacking the outpost strongholds. This Eighth Route Army was definitely the main force left by Liu Yimin before he fled south, and its combat effectiveness was strong, and the main force of the imperial army was attracted to Jiaodong step by step by them by the nose. Unfortunately, due to the influence of Liu Yimin's capture of Lianyungang, the heavy army group of the imperial army went south and missed the opportunity to completely exterminate this Eighth Route Army. Now, with the 10th and 8th Divisions alone, they have to defend the newly built Jiaoji Road and Jiqing Highway, and they have to sweep and clean up, which is really beyond their strength.

What Xia Yuan Xiong Mi said was the truth, and the other division commanders of the little devil all understood, but the more he listened to it, the more angry he became, and he regarded the truth of Xia Yuan Xiong Mi as a coward and afraid of death, and looked down on Xia Yuan Xiong Mi very much in his heart. However, with the lessons of yesterday's conflict with Osamu Maeda, Otaka Kamizo will no longer ridicule, ridicule, and insult Shimoto Kumaya.

Hiding in his heart the idea that he must report to the emperor and let the old and timid Maeda Osamu and Shimoto Kumaya be transferred to the reserves, Ogaka Kamizo told Shimoto Kumaya with a smile that the Jiaoji Railway has a joint garrison of Jiaoji Road, Qingdao Garrison in Qingdao, and Jinan Garrison in Jinan, and the 10th Eighth Division has no worries, so it can only concentrate its forces to carry out sweeping operations, and must chase and attack the remnants of the Eighth Route Army and drive them all into the sea to feed the fish.

Ogaka Kamizo said it easily, Xia Yuan Xiong Mi and the other division commanders didn't think so, they had seen the methods of Liu Yimin's instructor, didn't the elite troops of the Eighth Division and the Tenth Division end up collectively dying? Although Liu Yiming went to Wuhan with all his strength, the Eighth Route Army remaining in Shandong would definitely suffer heavy losses after being attacked by the Imperial Army's heavy army group, and under normal circumstances, they would not have had time to run, and it was impossible for them to take action against a division of the Imperial Army. However, after fighting for so long, the enemy situation is still unclear, and no one can say who the remnants of the Eighth Route Army left in Shandong are the troops and commanders of Liu Yimin's troops. In this way, whoever sweeps first on a large scale will inevitably suffer first. It's better to play it safe.

After Ozaka Kamizo saw that after he finished speaking, Shimoto Kumaya did not speak, and the commanders of the other divisions did not speak, thinking that the commanders of these fourth-rate troops were a group of cowards, and they wanted to slash them with a knife. It's a pity he doesn't have this power!

Otaka Kamizo and Chief of Staff Major General Kobayashi Asaburo muttered for a while, and finally decided that he would personally command the 108th Division and the 33rd Division to launch the Jiaoji Road Clearance Campaign, and the other divisions and regiments would send officers to form a field observation group to report to the headquarters of the 108th Division in Weixian County, observe the battlefield, and learn tactics.

Since Odaka Kamizo was going to go out in person, and Shimomoto Kumaya, Maeda Osamu and other division commanders had nothing to say, the 12th Army was finally temporarily twisted into a rope and prepared to launch a sweeping operation called "blind movement" in later military history.

(To be continued)