Yamamoto Kazuki frowned and said, "Your Excellency Commander, do you want to call a military doctor to come and show you?" ”

"No need, there is nothing the military doctor can do about hypertension, it is nothing more than to ask me to increase the dosage of medication." Yoshio Shinozuka waved his hand helplessly, and said, "Let's talk about your discovery." ”

"Hello." Yamamoto shook his head slightly, then turned around and walked to the north wall.

Brush up again and pull off the curtain on the wall, revealing the map of Shanxi underneath.

"Your Excellency, Commander, please take a look." Kazuki Yamamoto picked up a long wooden pole and pointed to the map, and said, "Here, in the old Donkey Ridge tunnel, we found the wreckage of the Type 94 armored train. ”

"Have you found the wreckage of the Type 94 armored train?"

Yoshio Shinozuka said, "Did you enter the carriage to investigate?" ”

"Unfortunately, we no longer have the ability to enter the carriage to investigate." Kazuki Yamamoto shook his head and said, "Because there is only one iron frame left in the entire train, and there are no even carriages." ”

"All the equipment on the train, even the steel plates,"

"They have all been dismantled and transported away by the Eighth Route Army."

"Yagayalu." Yoshio Shinozuka roared with a dark face, "Eighth Route Army! ”

Kazuki Yamamoto continued, "However, we still found some clues from the wreckage. ”

"Through the bullet holes left in the wreckage, as well as the fragments of grenade explosions left on the ground of the tunnel, it is almost certain that there was once a fierce battle on the armored train."

"It also proves my previous suspicions."

"The Eighth Route Army does have such an elite small force."

"This small unit has the ability to launch a surprise attack on the 11th armored train, and really hijacked the Type 94 armored train equipped with the 11th armored train."

"And it was a complete hijacking of the train."

Speaking of which, Kazuki Yamamoto emphasized the complete two words in an accentuated tone.

Yoshio Shinozuka said: "Are you sure that the Eighth Route Army hijacked the train completely?" ”

"Yes, I'm sure." Yamamoto Kazuki said solemnly, "Because after surveying the wreckage of the armored train in the old Donkey Ridge tunnel, we quietly infiltrated the Sangzhang stronghold, Yanzigou stronghold, the ruins of the Niangziguan Railway Station and Yangquan County, and entered a large number of reconnaissance ......."

Yoshio Shinozuka said in a deep voice, "What did you find? ”

Yamamoto Kazuki said: "We found that the three strongholds of Sangzhang, Yanzigou, and Niangziguan, as well as Yangquan County, were shelled by 105mm caliber cannons and 75mm caliber anti-aircraft guns. ”

"That's true!" Yoshio Shinozuka nodded, his face a little embarrassed.

Kazuki Yamamoto said: "Then we followed Zhengtai Road to the east, searching all the way, and then, we found suspicious traces at the foot of Phoenix Ridge Mountain, several infiltration and latent traces. ”

"Although the marks have been treated and the methods are very professional."

"But it still didn't escape our eyes, and we found out."

"After the restoration, it is basically certain that the main force of the elite small unit of the Eighth Route Army was lurking at the foot of Phoenix Ridge Mountain at that time, and one or two team members infiltrated the armored train in advance, and took advantage of the opportunity that the armored train began to slow down because of the climb at the foot of Phoenix Ridge, and opened the door to pick up other personnel to get on the train."

"Sodesne!" Yoshio Shinozuka nodded and said, "Yamamoto-kun, what conclusions did you draw from this?" ”

"Hello!" Yamamoto Kazuki suddenly paused, and said in a deep voice, "Your Excellency, the emergence of this elite small unit of the Eighth Route Army, as well as a series of incredible achievements created by them, are enough to prove the decisive role of special operations in the modern combat system. ”

"Therefore, I implore Your Excellency the Commander to immediately make a proposal to the Front Command to make a major innovation in the existing tactics of the North China Front."

"The existing tactics of the North China Front are a conventional tactics."

"It can be described as an effective tactic for the Chinese government army and the Jin Sui army, which advocate positional warfare."

"However, for the Eighth Route Army, which advocates guerrilla warfare and sparrow warfare, and now adds special operations, the existing tactics of the North China Front appear clumsy and difficult to deal with."

"If we don't innovate tactics in a timely manner,"

"The situation in North China is only going to get worse."

Yoshio Shinozuka fully agrees with Yamamotoki.

Yoshio Shinozuka really feels that the current tactics are really more and more adaptable to the needs of the situation.

If we continue to hold on to the remaining defenses and do not make any changes to the existing tactics, the situation in North China will only get worse and worse, and the strength of the Eighth Route Army will become stronger and stronger until the Japanese army is completely driven out of the five provinces in North China.

And such a result is unacceptable to Yoshio Shinozuka in any case.

However, Yoshio Shinozuka also has his concerns, because Okamura Ninji has just arrived in office, and he has not even figured out what kind of public order and anticipation policy Okamura Ninji will adopt.

So now he doesn't want to show his hole cards.

At that moment, Yoshio Shinozuka said, "I know." ”

When Kazuki Yamamoto wanted to say more, he was interrupted by Yoshio Shinozuka waving his hand.

"Yamamoto-kun, I can understand your feelings." Yoshio Shinozuka waved his hand and said, "But it's not time yet, I'll report your thoughts to Okamura when I have the chance." ”

"Please!" Kazuki Yamamoto paused.

……

Okamura Ninji attended another reception banquet last night.

And drank a few more glasses at the banquet, and as a result, he slept until ten o'clock in the morning and did not get up, and he would be eating breakfast in the small cafeteria of the headquarters.

The old devil's breakfast is also white flour steamed buns with porridge, and a plate of pickled melon.

This old devil is bent on making contributions to the empire, and he does not have too high requirements for personal material enjoyment, and he can eat porridge and steamed buns with relish.

While eating, Miyano Michichi walked in quickly.

"Miyano-kun, have you had breakfast? Eat together? ”

"Thank you, Your Excellency, General, I have already eaten it just now." Miyano Road.

Okamura Ninji sighed lightly and asked, "Miyano-kun, look at your expression, what's wrong?" ”

Miyano Dao paused and said: "Your Excellency, General, I just received an urgent telegram from the 110th Division, and they sent the cavalry brigade of the small unit of the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei to intercept and kill it, and the collective jade was shattered. ”

Okamura Ninji's outstretched chopsticks paused in the air.

A cavalry brigade collectively shattered jade, this is not a trivial matter.

Putting down the chopsticks, Okamura Ninji said, "When did this happen?" ”

Miyano Michiichi replied, "It was probably around two to four o'clock yesterday afternoon. ”

"Yaga!" Okamura Ninji said angrily, "Why did the matter between two and four o'clock yesterday afternoon be reported to the front army headquarters until now?" What were they doing before? ”

Michiichi Miyano replied, "I couldn't contact the Tado Brigade before, so I didn't report it." ”

"Yaga!" Okamura Ninji's facial muscles twitched twice, and he asked again, "So, what about the small unit of the Eighth Route Army that went to Shanghai to smuggle medicines?" Did they stop them? ”

"Nope." Michichi Miyano shook his head and said, "Ran away." ”

Okamura asked again: "So, the medicine is not intercepted?" ”

"Yes." Miyano said, "No accident, this batch of medicines must have arrived at the field hospital of the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang bandit area." ”

"Yaga Yaru!"

Okamura Ninji felt his face burn.

If the Battle of the Hundred Regiments launched by the Eighth Route Army before hit the face of the former commander of the North China Front, Tada Jun, then the total annihilation of the Tiandao Brigade this time hit him Okamura Ningji in the face!

This wave is really careless, I didn't expect the Eighth Route Army in North China to be so difficult?

He originally thought that the most difficult enemy to deal with was the Central Army of the Kuomintang, but now it seems that this judgment is likely to be discounted, because even the Central Army of the Kuomintang is extremely difficult to completely annihilate a cavalry brigade of the Japanese army in a field battle.

This is a cavalry brigade!

Cavalry is much more mobile than infantry!

After a long while, Okamura Ninji said, "Miyano-kun, do you know what this means? ”

"Hello, I know." Miyano replied, "This means that thousands of wounded soldiers of the Eighth Route Army will be treated and will be able to return to the battlefield." ”

"Thousands? No? ”

Okamura Ninji shook his head and said, "You're wrong, it's tens of thousands!" ”

"Tens of thousands?" "According to intelligence, the total casualties of the Eighth Route Army in this offensive are only about 20,000, and most of them are only slightly injured. ”

"That's now." Okamura Ninji said.

"And in the future, that batch of medicine is enough to save tens of thousands of people!"

"Imagine tens of thousands of elite veterans who have been seriously wounded returning to the battlefield?"

"How terrible would that be? And how much damage will it inflict on the North China Front? ”

"Not necessarily." Michiichi Miyano said, "If there is medicine alone, if there is no hospital, I am afraid that it will not be able to treat the wounded." ”

"Huh?" Okamura Ninji said with a moving expression, "Miyano-kun, what do you mean by this?" What you just said seems to mean something, huh? ”

"Hello!"

Miyano said for a moment: "I mean, as long as the hospital of the Eighth Route Army is destroyed and all the medical staff of the Eighth Route Army are killed, then all these medicines will become decorations, not to mention, while destroying the Eighth Route Army Hospital, this batch of medicines can also be destroyed." ”

Okamura Ninji heard something meaning, and said in a deep voice: "You mean, launch a revenge?" ”

"Yes, the Imperial Army must launch a-for-tat retaliation." Michiichi Miyano said.

After a pause, Miyano Michiichi said again: "Before this, with the successive defeats of the Central Army of China, the resistance forces in China are declining day by day, and Wang Sang's curve salvation theory has become the mainstream, but the Eighth Route Army engaged in a hundred-regiment battle and inflicted heavy losses on the battlefield, but this situation was completely reversed. ”

"If the Imperial Army can't reverse this situation as soon as possible."

"Then the situation in China will continue to deteriorate."

"Therefore, the North China Front must launch a-for-tat retaliatory action."

"The first is to destroy the field hospital in the Taihang Mountain bandit area, destroy the medical staff along with the batch of medicines in Shanghai, and second, to offset the negative impact caused by the Battle of the Hundred Regiments."

"Yo Si." Okamura Ninji nodded happily and said, "It seems that Miyano-kun is already well aware of this?" ”

"Hello." Miyano Dao shook his head, stretched out his hand again, and said, "Has Your Excellency the General finished breakfast?" If you're done, head over to the War Room and I'll tell you more about the plan. ”

"I've finished eating." Okamura Ninji wiped his mouth, got up and left.

Soon came to the war room, Miyano Michiichi brushed open the curtains on the wall, revealing the map underneath.

"Your Excellency, General, please take a look." Miyano Daoyi picked up the wooden pole and pointed to the map and said, "This is the Taihang bandit area of the Eighth Route Army, which is east of Tongpu Road and north of Zhengtai Road. ”

"Here, this place is called Daxia Bay."

"I know that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army is in Daxiawan."

"If nothing else, the field hospital of the Eighth Route Army must have been built here."

"The minimum goal of this surprise attack is to destroy the Eighth Route Army Hospital in Daxia Bay, and if possible, destroy the command organ of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters by the way."

Okamura Ninji frowned, "This is just an idea. ”

After a pause, he asked, "Can I hear a specific course of action?" ”

"Of course." The wooden pole in Miyano Dao's hand moved down and landed in Shouyang County, and said, "Shouyang, it is only less than a hundred kilometers away from Daxia Bay, where the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the hospital are located. ”

"Moreover, there is an infantry brigade of the 4th Brigade in Shouyang County."

"This infantry brigade, which was originally the mobile brigade of the 4th Brigade, is fully formed and well-equipped."

"Your Excellency the General can directly give an order to the 1st Army, ordering this infantry brigade to surprise attack Daxia Bay and launch a fatal blow to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army."

"And then?" Okamura Ninji said, "After the successful surprise attack, this infantry brigade will definitely be encircled, how can we rescue them at that time?" ”

"That's the whole program that's the focus."

Miyano Michichi said in a deep voice: "The surprise attack on Daxia Bay not only has the opportunity to destroy the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the field hospital and kill all the medical personnel, but it is more likely to attract the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the entire Taihang Mountain bandit area, and create an opportunity for the 1st Army to concentrate its forces and completely annihilate the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army!" ”

"Nani? Can the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army be completely annihilated? ”

Okamura Ninji suddenly came to his senses, and said in a deep voice: "How feasible is it?" ”

"All I can say is extremely high." Miyano Michiichi said, "Because the Eighth Route Army has just won the victory of the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, this is the time when their defense is the most lax, and the Battle of Zaoyi has not ended at this time, and the troops of the 1st Army that were seconded to the Central China battlefield have not returned, so the Eighth Route Army never imagined that we would counterattack at this time!" ”

"Yo Si." Okamura Ninji said, "Perfectly in line with the element of surprise. ”

Miyano Michiichi said: "In fact, the 222nd Infantry Wing, the 225th Infantry Wing, and the 237th Infantry Wing drawn from Jinnan have entered the front line of Taiyuan, Changzhi and Pingding County respectively, plus the 3rd Brigade Regiment stationed in Ping'an County, you can launch a centripetal attack on Daxia Bay from three directions. ”

"Soga." Okamura Ninji said happily, "Once the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army concentrates its main forces to launch a siege on this infantry brigade that raided Daxia Bay, the 1st Army's units stationed in Taiyuan, Pingding, and Ping'an County will be able to carry out counter-encirclement of the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army concentrated in Daxia Bay from the periphery!" ”

Miyano said: "So, Your Excellency the General agreed?" ”

"Of course, why not?" Okamura Ninji nodded and said, "Immediately call the headquarters of the 1st Army and order this infantry brigade of the 4th Brigade to surprise attack Daxia Bay!" ”

"Hello!" Miyano said a meal.

……

The order of the headquarters of the North China Front soon arrived in Taiyuan.

"It's a battle of wills." Kazuki Yamamoto said very politely, "Your Excellency Commander, I am against it!" Such an act of revenge is not only pointless, but doomed to failure! ”

"Yamamoto-kun, why do you say that?"

Chief of Staff Takayoshi Tanaka frowned and said, "I think it's worth at least trying." ”

Ryuichi Sakamoto, the head of the operations section, also said: "Yes, at least one thing will not be wrong, the Eighth Route Army has just won a big victory, and this must be the most lax time, the Yamazaki Brigade launched a surprise attack at this time, maybe it can really catch the Eighth Route Army by surprise, destroy the Eighth Route Army headquarters in one fell swoop, and destroy their field hospital." ”

Takuya Mizuhara, head of the communications section, also said: "Moreover, this is also perfectly in line with Sun Tzu's art of war to attack its unprepared and unexpected use of troops, maybe it can really succeed!" ”

Yamamoto Kazuki frowned and said: "The Art of War is to say that it is unprepared to attack it and take it by surprise, but Sun Tzu's Art of War also said that soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent, so we can't blindly copy Sun Tzu's experience in the Art of War!" ”

"You know, this is Shanxi, the land of the Chinese people, and the country of the Chinese people."

"The Taihang bandit area is the so-called base of the Eighth Route Army, and almost everyone there is the eyes, ears and eyes of the Eighth Route Army, and the Yamazaki Brigade will be discovered as soon as they step into the bandit area."

"So where did you come from to attack it unprepared and take it by surprise?"

"It's easy." Takuya Mizuhara said, "Just kill." ”

Ryuichi Sakamoto also said: "Yes, kill all the people along the way, and there will be no problem." ”

Tanaka Takayoshi also said: "Moreover, even if there are people from Shina to report the news, they may not be able to get ahead of the Yamazaki brigade, because the straight-line distance from Shouyang County to Daxia Bay is only less than 100 kilometers!" If you replace the mountain artillery of the Yamazaki Brigade with mortars, and then add some pack horses, you can carry all the military supplies onto the pack horses. ”

"In this way, the mobility of the Yamazaki brigade will be higher than it is now."

"They can even take the remote trails in the mountains instead of relying on the main roads!"

While a few old devils were talking, a battle plan had gradually taken shape.

In the final analysis, the North China Front Command only issued an operational order.

However, the real concrete battle plan still needs to be formulated by the 1st Army itself.

Although he was opposed by almost all his colleagues, Yamamoto Kazuki did not back down, and said: "This is just your wishful thinking, even if the Yamazaki Brigade does not reveal its whereabouts, how can Daxia Bay, where the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army is located, not have a guard force?" Do you think it is possible for the Yamazaki Brigade to solve the guard units of the Eighth Route Army in a short period of time? ”

(End of chapter)