Gangcun Ningji's next deployment is even more ruthless.

Okamura Ningji, the most powerful person is that he is not ambitious and pragmatic. He had led the Second Division to participate in the Japanese army's heavy sweep of Shandong, suffered a heavy loss of the Eighth Route Army on the Jilu border, and then became more and more cautious when he took up the post of commander of the North China Front. Half a year after taking office, he also basically understood the strength of the various units of the Eighth Route Army in North China. He knew that the heavy firepower of the Eighth Route Army was basically concentrated in Liu Yimin's department in Shandong, and Liu Yimin captured it from the Japanese army. Okamura was as familiar with the firepower of Japanese-made artillery, combat vehicles, and armored vehicles as he was himself, and knew that if Liu Yimin's troops were allowed to target one of his divisions, the consequences would be unimaginable. Therefore, in the past six months, the method he adopted was basically the same as that of Tada Jun, that is, to besiege central and southern Lu with heavy troops, put the main force of Liu Yimin's troops in a cage, and frequently attacked and fought on the battlefield in Shanxi. Unexpectedly, the tiger in the cage actually ran out and occupied the big Shanghai. For this reason, when the base camp reprimanded the commander-in-chief of the Chinese dispatch army, Shunroku Hatata, he also severely reprimanded Okamura Ningji, saying that he besieged Lu Zhongnan with heavy troops, surrounded and besieged, and actually surrounded Liu Yimin to attack Shanghai! It's like throwing His Majesty's face on the world!

Fortunately, Okamura Ninji is not as addicted to women as Terauchi Shouichi, Sugi Sugimoto, and Tada Jun, and has a good reputation in Japan, otherwise, I'm afraid that the newspapers in Tokyo will disgust him again and again like disgusting Terauchi Shouyi, Sugi Sugimoto, and Tada Jun!

Okamura Ninji began to deploy.

To the surprise of Tendo Moritake and Hirata Masasa, Okamura Ninji's first emphasis on deploying military operations was the issue of dividing and disintegrating the remnants of the Kuomintang forces in North China.

This work has been done since Shanshan Yuan, but the results are not great. The main reason was that the Eighth Route Army's record was too brilliant, and the Japanese army could not cope with the offensive of the Eighth Route Army alone. There was no time and energy to suppress the remnants of the Nationalist army in North China. In the same way, due to the achievements of the Eighth Route Army, all the attention of the Japanese army was attracted to the Eighth Route Army, such as Sun Dianying's department, Pang Bingxun's department, and Sun Liangcheng's department. Including the Yu Xuezhong Department in the Sulu Theater that retreated from Shandong to the Henan-Anhui border region, there was basically no pressure and could be maintained, and naturally no one would surrender.

Okamura Ninji said that in the four and a half years of the North China War, in addition to the heavy losses of the imperial army, another major loss was that Liu Yimin had almost wiped out those local armed forces that were bent on supporting the imperial army. Just take Shandong as an example. Zhang Zongyuan's department, Zhang Buyun's department, Liu Guitang's department, and Li Wenli's department were all completely wiped out by the Eighth Route Army. The imperial army has lost its helpers and has become a blind man and a blind horse, and there is no reason to be invincible in war! Therefore, the most urgent task of the North China Front at present was to fight the Eighth Route Army, but to suppress the remnants of the Kuomintang forces in North China, force them to join the appeasement army, and turn their guns to fight the Eighth Route Army. And. The latter is more important than the former!

Okamura Ninji said: Now is a great time to divide and disintegrate the remnants of the Kuomintang. There are several reasons for this. One reason was the victorious end of the Battle of Nakajo Mountain. There were no more troops of Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army north of the Yellow River, and these remnants of the Kuomintang had to survive in the cracks, and if the Imperial Army launched an offensive against them, they would soon collapse. The second reason is that the Japanese army and navy successfully ended the Japanese-Soviet War, and the Pacific War went smoothly again, and the strength of the troops was unparalleled, and many Chinese lost confidence in persisting in the war of resistance. The third reason was that many of the high-ranking officials of the Wang Ching-wei regime were high-ranking officials of the Chiang Kai-shek government, which had the temptation to put them in touch with the remnants of the Kuomintang in North China. Pull together and divide. As long as a high-ranking general surrendered to the imperial army, a group of troops would surrender. The fourth reason was that Chiang Kai-shek would soon understand that if he did not take drastic measures against the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army, and if the current situation continued to develop, the strength of the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army would surpass that of his Nationalist Government. However, Chiang Kai-shek was likely to be confined to their anti-Japanese national united front. He did not dare to attack the Communist Eighth Route Army with great fanfare, and it was very likely that he would adopt a compromise and covert method, conniving at some of the troops to surrender to the Imperial Army, joining Wang Jingwei's troops, and participating in the attack on the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army.

This Okamura Ninji, who originally did not advocate letting Wang Jingwei establish a national regime, now needs to be used, and he actually hit the idea on Wang Jingwei's government!

However, these reasons analyzed by Okamura Ninji were indeed favorable factors for the Japanese army to lure the remnants of the North China National Army. He saw it with precision! In history, starting from 1942, a group of miscellaneous troops who insisted on the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression defected to the enemy one after another and joined the puppet army. For a time, the generals were like hair, and the troops were like a tide!

After analyzing the feasibility, Okamura Ninji began to clearly divide the responsibilities and asked Hirata to contact the Special Service Department of the North China Front Army to assist the First Army in dividing and disintegrating the Yan Xishan Division. Okamura Ninji made it very clear that Yan Xishan could not surrender openly, but he had to operate in the defense area designated by the imperial army to assist the imperial army in containing the Eighth Route Army. Otherwise, it will be wiped out.

Okamura Ningji said that Yan Xishan is a very good person, and he is good at ruling the Jin Sui army with his thoughts. Therefore, the cohesion of the Jin Sui army is very strong and it is not easy to divide. Therefore, the key to doing the work of Jin Suijun is to do the work of Yan Xishan. This man is accustomed to dancing on two or three eggs, and is a typical opportunist. To deal with this kind of person, one is inducement, and the other is coercion. Let him understand that if he does not cooperate with the imperial army, there is only a dead end.

Hirata listened carefully and remembered clearly, and couldn't help but ask: "Your Excellency, Commander, why don't you take the opportunity to mobilize troops to completely destroy Yan Xishan?" As long as Yan Xishan is eliminated, only the Eighth Route Army will be left in the entire North China, and the imperial army can concentrate on completely sweeping the Eighth Route Army. ”

This was also the doubt of Heavenly Dao Shengwu, and he also cast a puzzled gaze at Okamura Ningji.

Okamura Ninji waved his hand and said seductively: "Hirata-kun doesn't understand the strategy, eliminating Yan Xishan is tantamount to helping the Communist Party, and the people of Shanxi will follow the Communist Party." Yan Xishan's can't be eliminated, he can play a role that the imperial army can't play, and the Eighth Route Army can't turn Shanxi all red. What we have to do is to let Yan Xishan and the imperial army come together and assist the imperial army in eliminating and suppressing the Eighth Route Army. ”

Heavenly Dao Shengwu and Hirata Masashi thought about it carefully, and felt that His Excellency the Commander was indeed clever, and he said in unison.

Then, Okamura Ninji broke down the tasks of dividing and disintegrating into the Xuezhong Division, Sun Dianying's Division, Pang Bingxun's Division, and Sun Liangcheng's Division, and clearly gave each unit a time limit for completion.

Okamura Ningji is playing real this time, if he succeeds, a large number of puppet troops will appear in North China again!

After talking about how to divide and disintegrate the remnants of the national army in North China, Gangcun began to talk about military deployment.

Okamura's deployment revolved around the struggle for the North China Plain.

Gangcun Ningci envisaged launching a winter offensive in Shanxi and Shandong, focusing on sweeping the base areas of the Eighth Route Army in mountainous areas and attracting the attention of the Eighth Route Army. In the early spring, with a sudden move, heavy troops were mobilized to encircle and suppress the Qinghe River and Jiaolai River valleys in central Hebei, southern Hebei, northwest Shandong, southwestern Shandong, and north of Jiaoji Road, so as to completely wipe out the Eighth Route Army in the above-mentioned areas and restore public order in the North China Plain. In other words, Okamura Ninji was going to use the winter sweep operation to cover the sweep of the plains that he planned to carry out in the spring.

There is nothing new about this tactic, Terauchi Shouyi, Sugi Sugimoto, and Tada Jun have all done it, and they all failed. Heavenly Dao Shengwu and Hirata Masashi both looked at this commander, whom they already respected extremely highly, hoping that he could play some new tricks.

Okamura Ninji really played a new trick, so he heard him say tepidly: "In the past heavy army sweeps, the mistake was that the large army left after the assault, and the Eighth Route Army could drill tunnels and escape from the cracks, and then wait for the heavy army group to return and restore their base area." We didn't do this this time, we didn't make such a big noise, and we quietly concentrated on sweeping one district after another. First, the iron wall was closed, and then the area was divided into several small pieces, and the grate was repeatedly swept away, and the area was completely turned into a consolidated occupation area. That is to say, in the central Hebei region, the imperial army was stationed on the spot after the heavy sweep and did not leave, until the Eighth Route Army was completely wiped out, all the tunnels were destroyed, all the communist and anti-Japanese elements were shot, and the political power system, police system, and security team system were all built, and the buses could be safely passed in Jizhong, and the task was completed. ”

Heavenly Dao Shengwu and Hirata were sentenced to listen, if it was really carried out according to this method, then the Eight Roads of Earth would really have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth, and they must be destroyed.

Okamura Ninji's tricks were far more than that, so I heard him continue: "When we control the North China Plain, then we will strengthen the security and sweep of the Eighth Route Army base areas in the mountainous areas. There is a difference in this, that is, in the consolidated security areas, all units must strictly observe military discipline, do not burn, kill, or rob, and encourage the people to develop production, and the military rations of the imperial army and the appeasement army must also be normally collected by political power at all levels, so as to form a good production and living environment like that of Manchukuo. In the quasi-security area, while fighting the Eighth Route Army, the Imperial Army should compete with the Eighth Route Army for the hearts and minds of the people, crack down on anti-Japanese elements, discover, cultivate, and give preferential treatment to friends who cooperate with the Imperial Army, and help them build up their armed forces to fight against the local armed forces of the Eighth Route Army. In the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, that is, non-security areas, such as the northwest of Shanxi, Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, southeastern Shanxi, and central and southern Shandong, it was necessary to maintain continuous high-pressure sweeps, and everywhere the imperial army went, it was necessary to kill all the people it saw, burn all the houses it saw, and rob all the people's property. In other words, to create a large area of no man's land in the base area of the Eighth Route Army, and let the people know that running with the Eighth Route Army can only lead to one ending, that is, death! If you follow the Imperial Army, you will be able to enjoy security and peace. ”

Okamura Ninji is going to engage in the "three lights" policy!