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In addition, Hu Weidong, who knew a lot about Okamura Ningji and his people, didn't expect this at first, after all, there was no precedent for a high-ranking general to be captured so far, let alone surrender. It is also believed that Okamura Ninji may have subconsciously realized that the war of aggression against China was inevitable (although he would have subjectively resisted this idea), so he did not dare to do too much, but wanted to leave a way out for himself and his subordinates. In history, Okamura Ningji engaged in "Three Lights" because the strength of the Eighth Route Army was still too weak at that time, so he had no scruples, but the situation in this time and space was completely different, although Okamura Ningji, who had always claimed to be loyal to the emperor and cherished his little life in his bones, naturally did not dare to do so much

Okamura Ningji decided to defend Kaifeng to the death, and his wishful thinking was to contain the main force of the Eighth Route Army and force the 15th Group Army to deal with the main force of the Central China Dispatch Army alone. In Okamura Ningji's view, although the current strength of the 15th Group Army is not necessarily inferior to the more than 500,000 Japanese troops in Xuzhou, if the Japanese army is also determined to hold on, the 15th Group Army will definitely not be able to eat it. At the same time, Japan's newly expanded troops can also continuously reinforce Central China, and with the population and industrialization degree of the Red Party's major border areas, no matter how capable the Red Party is, the number of troops it can mobilize cannot be compared with that of Japan, an industrial country, and except for the Central Plains Border Region, which is the closest and has the highest degree of industrialization, the rest of the border areas, even if they are mobilized to the limit, can only be used for local defense, and it is impossible for them to have the economic ability to support them to fight in the Central Plains. Therefore, as long as it drags on for a month or two, the ratio of forces in the Central China battlefield will inevitably be completely reversed, and then it will be an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the enemy.

More importantly, even if the 11th Army was surrounded, it would not sit idly by, but would constantly engage the besieging Eighth Route Army, which consumed more ammunition than any other form of combat. Hundreds of thousands of people have been engaged in such high-intensity battles for a long time, and even Japan may not be able to afford the consumption of ammunition, let alone China, which has a weak industrial base. At that time, the ammunition consumption of the Eighth Route Army was huge. This will undoubtedly seriously affect the combat effectiveness of the 15 th Group Army, which relies most on firepower under the Red Party, and may also increase the contradictions between the two enemy armies.

Okamura Ninji's plan is not quite like the Japanese army's combat style. But judging from the current situation of the Anti-Japanese War, it seems to be a very reasonable choice, but Okamura Ninji missed two points, one is that he didn't expect that the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation would unbelievably win seven battles and seven victories after changing the coach. dealt a heavy blow to the Kwantung Army, while the ranks of the Anti-Union became stronger and stronger; At the same time, the South Manchurian Column, which had been sharply reduced in strength, also came back to life in a special way of struggle, and the flames of anti-Japanese resistance ignited everywhere almost brought Japan's rule in the three eastern provinces to the brink of collapse. In order to keep the three eastern provinces, which were more important to Japan, the Japanese army headquarters was forced to expand the Kwantung Army again and again, and even had to reassign a large number of troops originally intended to be sent to the Central China Battlefield to the Kwantung Army in order to meet the emergency, which led to a huge shortage of more than 300,000 Japanese troops in the Central China Battlefield, which alone was enough to bankrupt Okamura Ninji's plan. The second point that the old devil Okamura missed was that he still underestimated the speed of the strength of the 15th Group Army and the means of Hu Su and the others

However, Okamura's strategy still had some effect at the beginning. If more than 100,000 devils are bent on defending, not to mention the Eighth Route Army, even if it is the 15th Group Army with the largest ability to attack fortifications in China

It was not so easy to take, and although Okamura Ninji was a heinous man in history, he was honest and self-disciplined (Note 1). Although he has not been the commander of the 11th Army for a long time, he has already won the hearts of the army, so everyone has the heart of death, which is very different from the morbid bravery inspired by the threat of harsh military law and the poison of militaristic ideology, which when there is no hope of victory, the latter often do stupid actions such as breaking the jar and breaking the cans when there is no hope of victory, and are quickly eliminated by the enemy with strong firepower (although it may be miraculous when dealing with enemies with less firepower), At this time, the Japanese 11th Army always maintained the necessary calmness and sanity, knowing when to not give an inch and when to abandon some of the positions that could not be held in order to preserve the survival of Liliang, such an enemy has always been the most difficult to deal with

According to the original plan of the Central Plains Battle, it was first necessary for the Eighth Route Army to eliminate the Japanese 11th Army with the cooperation of the 300,000 troops mobilized in the Central Plains border area not long ago, and then join forces with the 15th Group Army to divide the big fat of the Japanese army in Xuzhou, which had a strength of more than 500,000, so after the encirclement was roughly completed, the Eighth Route Army launched a fierce attack on Kaifeng, but due to the unprecedented tenacity and cunning of the enemy, the initial offensive was not smooth, and the Eighth Route Army suffered more than 50,000 casualties in just three days, while the Japanese casualties were less than 30,000. And more than 70 percent of them were the results of the air force and artillery, which consumed almost the total amount of ammunition produced in the Central Plains Border Region in a whole month in November 1938.

After learning that the Eighth Route Army had suffered a setback, the headquarters of the 15th Group Army proposed to the Central Committee that the Eighth Route Army only need to trap the Japanese army in Kaifeng, and the Japanese army in Xuzhou should be left to solve the problem by itself, in the view of the two military commanders of the 15th Group Army, Hu Su, as long as they try to mobilize the Japanese army in Xuzhou for field combat, then even if they only rely on the 15th Group Army themselves, it may not be able to kill the Xuzhou Heavy Army Group of the devil, and perhaps the results of the battle are not as good as the predetermined plan, but there is still a certain certainty that more than 200,000 prisoners will be killed, plus the Japanese 11th Army surrounded by the Eighth Route Army, Adding up to the least, it can also annihilate three or four hundred thousand devils, which is a new record since the Anti-Japanese War, no matter how you look at it, it is not less

Note 1: Unlike most Japanese generals who burned, killed, and plundered out of greed (most typical such as Yamashita Fumi), animal nature (most typical such as Qian Zhengxin), or both (most typical such as Tani Shoufu), for example, he proposed the "Three Lights" policy entirely for the purpose of eliminating the Eighth Route Army, rather than trying to satisfy his own personal desires, on the contrary, his personal ethics were very rare among the senior Japanese generals. Although this person does deserve death, but the study of historical figures must be realistic, to a certain extent, in fact, the situation of the mustache is similar to him, the same heinous crime, but the personal ethics are good, and the ability and insight are also very set, so history is very complicated (to be continued). )