958 Strategic deception
When the news of Huang Tianyang's capture of the airport came, Sakagaki was at a military meeting, discussing his attack, and his staff were a little panicked when they saw the rapid collapse of the two brigades under Huang Tianyang's attack, and the Jinou Peninsula was not too far from Saigon, but Sakagaki was unmoved. As Sakagaki expected, he hoped that the two brigades would be able to attract the forces of Chu Tingchang and make them unable to maneuver, and he finally sent a telegram to the troops on the peninsula, asking them to fight to the end.
Sakagaki's attention has been on Chu Tingchang's main force. In the sporadic information I have obtained recently, there has been a lot of information about the location of Chu Tingchang's headquarters, and if he is asked to choose between 100,000 enemy troops and Chu Tingchang personally, he will not hesitate to throw * on Chu Tingchang's head. However, the current information is only a letter of surrender from the original French authorities' informant organization in an attempt to surrender, and it is difficult to verify.
In addition, after the first nuclear bomb strike, Chu Tingchang has become a frightened bird, in Saigon he only used a few telegrams hinting at nuclear bombs, he scared away his opponents, but now the question arises, since the enemy is so afraid of nuclear bombs, how easy is it to attack again with nuclear bombs?
Chu Tingchang's troops are still hesitating, still panicking, and still stagnating. As for the attack on the Jinou Peninsula, it seems to Sakagaki that it was just a tentative attack by Chu Tingchang in the secondary direction, the purpose of which may be to eliminate the Japanese airfield on the peninsula and see if the Japanese army has any excess*, but Sakagaki will not be fooled and throw the precious weapon on the head of Huang Tianyang and his troops. Of course, the airport in Jinou is no longer important. The scenario of a nuclear bomb attack on Chu Ting Changbu has been changed, and according to the new plan, the plane will take off from the airport on Hainan Island in China, and the backup plan will be to use the Malay airport.
At present, from the aircraft to the personnel and even the fuse, it is not finalized, if it is peacetime, the entire equipment commissioning and personnel training will take at least a year, but now, the time left for the army to complete all this is only one week. This is the time for the movement of troops, and in a week the offensive will begin.
The situation suddenly turned around when the intelligence services were taking over, and the French left behind the gendarmerie intelligence system.
The Japanese ruled Vietnam for two years and also failed to master the secret police and whistleblower system of the French colonial authorities. This is an intelligence network below the Director General of the Gendarmerie. The Vichy government regarded this network as an important capital for its return to Vietnam, and did not cooperate with the Japanese side.
The Japanese army slaughtered the French several times, causing the collapse of the upper echelons of the entire system, which made the Japanese unexpected, and the civil informers, eager to find their new masters, and Chu Tingchang's troops used a large number of British counterfeit Vietnamese dong (printed in London) issued by CrΓ©dit Agricole CIB wherever they went, and forced to buy and sell, which became the decisive inducement. The poor intelligence gathering situation of the Yugoslav authorities after being severely dealt a blow in Thailand has actually begun to improve.
Due to the secrecy strategy formulated by Kagesa Zhenzhao, most of Sakagaki's subordinates who attended the meeting did not know that this attack from east to west was only part of the strategy to eliminate Chu Tingchang. Many of them had fought against Chu Tingchang in Burma and Thailand, and were still apprehensive about such a wide frontal attack on a highly mobile enemy.
"Within a week, the main forces will land in all the predetermined directions, and at that time, we will use Hue and Saigon as the starting point and launch a pincer offensive at the same time to encircle the Zhou Youfu Division. The ratio of forces is 2.5 to 1."
"The enemy will definitely slip away. Their intelligence is always sensitive. His staff officer, Iwamoto, said something dejected.
"Well, they're likely to slip away, but their intelligence won't be sensitive anymore."
"Why?"
"I should have announced this in a few days, but since you seem so careless, I can tell you in advance. At that time, the offensive in all directions will be entrusted to command, and a small number of communications will be completed using airdrops from aircraft. All the telegrams of the General Staff, all are fake news, and the enemy will no longer be able to find any useful intelligence from the communications. β
"But sir, would that mess up our own command?"
"General Isoya, who commanded the battle in the direction of Hue, is a trustworthy and famous general, and in addition, General Iida, who defeated Chu Tingchang in Burma, will also participate in the operation, hehehe, there is always a tacit understanding between famous generals."
Sakagaki's answer is plausible, it seems that because they are all famous generals, they don't need to communicate, and they can communicate only by telepathy, which echoes the unpredictable prophet of Chu Tingchang.
"General Iida will also be involved in this battle?"
"Oh, yes, he will strike a fatal blow at Pavilion Chief Chu at some point." Sakagaki realized that what he said was wrong, and that Iida's Malay counterattack was still a matter that had to be kept secret, "However, I can't explain the direction of his troops. β
The subordinates looked at each other, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in the Sakagaki gourd. The mobilization of 200,000 troops from Manchuria to Vietnam has exhausted Japan's shipping capacity, but listening to him, Iida of the reserve will still have a role, but where is it placed?
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have seen your confusion, and you are worried that Pavilion Chief Chu will attack halfway ashore of our army; Or. Are you worried that he will use his mobility to divide our forces before they have completed their build-up? Or, in the event of a major offensive by our army, use a far-reaching detour to cut off logistical supplies? β
None of the people spoke, and Sakagaki did express everyone's worries.
"Chu Tingchang's momentum is too strong, and the defeat is being revealed, from the perspective of the Book of Changes, our odds have appeared."
The crowd went from staring at each other to being dumbfounded.
"Chu Tingchang defected to the United States and committed Chiang Kai-shek's taboo, this is a defeat............ Sakagaki stretched out his hand and raised his fingers, "The control area is too large, and the troops are scattered, this is a second defeat...... Oppressing the natives and robbing the people's property is a three-defeat ...... Got carried away and held a military parade in the Thai Royal Palace, offending the Thai royal family, which was a four-defeat defeat. The troops stood out and broke away from the range of American aircraft, which was a five-way defeat...... As for the most critical defeat...... Hehehe...... "Sakagaki sold a pass, and didn't say anything further."
"Is it that the logistics are too weak?" Iwamoto asked boldly.
"Iwamoto-kun, that's right, Chu Tingchang has these six defeats, how can he not be destroyed, and our army has six victories, have you ever seen it?"
"So many?" Iwamoto Yaguchi said that his staff had been studying the situation and had not found any chance of victory. Unexpectedly, today, the commander counted so much
"Not bad." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand again, "* In your hand, crit the enemy at any time, this is a victory." With the sea in its back, the mobilization is extremely fast, and this is a double win...... Compact action and careful planning, this is a win-win; The strength of the whole country, a battle to the death, this is four victories. The intelligence is favorable, and the enemy is expected to take the lead, which is a five-win victory; β
He counted to five, stopped again, and bought another pass. It's not yet time to mention that Iida is killing in Malay, so let his subordinates guess. In fact, he knows in his heart, the so-called first five victories are not counted, and only the last blow is the key to the decisive victory.
Just as the Japanese were planning their desperate plan as if they had lost their minds, Chief Chu was working on the formation of his troops. If there was no war, it would take half a year just to reorganize the organization and change personnel, but now he only has a week.
419 had detected the build-up of the enemy's fleet in the direction of Manchuria, and these ships were already arriving one after another, and it was estimated that the enemy's plan should be a week later. He had to hurry up and complete the new formation and deployment.
He had been guessing the enemy's plan for the next counterattack, and Lin Xiuxuan's Saigon reconnaissance and 419's intelligence were completely in tune, and now it was up to him to see where the final landing site of these troops was. If all the ships tracked by 419 went ashore along the coast of Vietnam and did not enter the Gulf of Thailand, it shows that the enemy will not use troops in the direction of Malay, which he fears most.
Of course, 419 is in the East China Sea and cannot detect the movement of the broken zone in South Asia, but common sense judges that it is difficult for the Japanese to mobilize troops from Malaysia, Indonesia, and New Guinea, which would exceed Japan's mobility limit, after all, the United States and Japan are still at war in the South Pacific.
There was no further news from Chen Ping. Chen Ping's guerrillas had blossomed throughout the Malay Peninsula, and he was particularly well coordinated with Tao Mingzhang, who had not yet found any increase in enemy troops. The Malay Peninsula was still attacking with the 2nd Division and the 1st Guards Division. Singapore also did not see a large number of ships massing up.
If they just came ashore from Vietnam, it seems that there is nothing to fear. He set out a plan to lure the enemy deep into the enemy, and after luring the enemy away from Hainan Island and Malay (where the bomb-dropping planes were expected to take off), he would launch a night offensive, which would make it very difficult for the enemy to drop nuclear bombs by air. The first is the issue of air navigation, and the second is target recognition.
According to estimates, a deviation of 500 meters from the explosion point of a 20,000-ton nuclear bomb will reduce the damage by 90%. At night, the average error of a horizontal bomb dropped at an altitude of 5,000 meters is about 500 meters, and if a parachute is used, the wind deviation will be even more affected. But in any case, he must admit that his decision-making has been interfered with, not only by the transfer of troops, but also by his command, which has been forced to retreat to Cambodia.
The Vietnamese seem to have a deep-seated hostility towards the Chinese, and Zhou Youfu abused fake money to detonate the grudge in advance. When his troops were in Burma, they received a lot of fake money from British intelligence, ranging from fake Burmese rupees, fake Thai baht, to fake Vietnamese dong. The production was quite good, but the money was only used to disrupt the monetary system of the Japanese-occupied areas, and after the occupation, it should be immediately switched to the hard currency of the allies. However, Zhou Youfu has not handed over this part of the money, saying that it was bombed by enemy planes during the war. Recently, there are countless Japanese detectives who have been caught, and when one was caught, he probed his brain 200 meters outside Chu Tingchang's headquarters.
Now he is far away from the war zone, and far away from the intelligence in front of him. The only thing that can be trusted is the news that Lin Xiuxuan and they played from the front, but unfortunately Lin's group could not be transferred to Malaysia in a short time. None of Chen Ping's men were highly trained, and they were easily deceived by the illusions deliberately arranged by the enemy.
Before the Iida people arrived in Singapore, the strategic deception of the Malay Front had already begun, with the aim of disguising a large-scale transfer as a divisional reinforcement.