The spring sweep ended in a fiasco.

The devils and puppet soldiers of the First Army stationed in Shanxi ushered in an unprecedented decadence.

In Taiyuan City, the commander of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi, Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the Japanese First Army, was listening to the summary of the final casualties of the Japanese army's attack on the independent regiment in the area of Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang.

"The brigades suffered more than 7,500 casualties, of which more than 3,600 were broken in the battle, and more than 400 died due to the wounded and sick, totaling more than 4,100 deaths."

"There were more than 2,400 casualties among the various units of the Imperial Army, of which more than 1,200 were killed in battle, more than 1,000 were captured, and more than 200 were missing."

"Yaga!"

Yoshio Shinozuka was angry, although he had always had a calm temperament, although he had been mentally prepared before listening to the report of the casualties, but when it came to the end, hearing the specific casualty data, Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't help but break the defense, and he was angry.

He didn't even want to know about the casualties of the Eighth Route Army's Independent Regiment now.

Even if the independent regiment is wiped out, the independent regiment will only have a few thousand men, compared to the casualties of the imperial forces this time, in the eyes of Yoshio Shinozuka, it is already a humiliating fiasco.

waited until he looked at the data in detail, and finally came to the conclusion that the comparison of casualties between the independent regiment of the Japanese Empire and the Eighth Route Army this time was even higher than 10:1.

The great shame made Yoshio Shinozuka furious at the post-war military conference held later, and said on the spot:

"This spring sweep, the battles of Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, is the greatest shame of the Japanese Empire's war against China since the Manchurian Incident!"

"It's the biggest shame in the history of my First Army!"

"If this great shame is not washed away, I am afraid that he will kill himself by disembowelment to apologize for the emperor."

In the angry voice of Yoshio Shinozuka, all the Japanese officers of the First Army who participated in the meeting hung their heads.

Yoshio Shinozuka was even more annoyed: "Yaga, lift your head up for me, do you still have the appearance of an imperial soldier?" ”

"A soldier should have the backbone to be fearless of everything, since he has been humiliated, as a soldier of the empire, what should he do?"

"Annihilate the Independent Regiment, Your Excellency General, we will completely destroy the Independent Regiment, and we will be ashamed!"

A devil captain gritted his teeth and spoke, and several of his other friends were all killed in the battle to reinforce Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang.

The other devil officers also spoke one after another, and they all hated the independent regiment with great hatred.

Yoshio Shinozuka felt a little relieved at this time, and his eyes looked around at the officers who had raised their heads again, and said: "After this battle, the danger level of the Independent Regiment will increase again for our First Army, and you should work together, if you can destroy the Independent Regiment in one fell swoop, even if you add three more wings, I will never hesitate." ”

"Hey!" The devil officers responded in unison, and they all felt the resoluteness of Commander Yoshio Shinozuka in destroying the independent regiment.

After the meeting, Yoshio Shinozuka asked people to call Kazuki Yamamoto again.

Now Yamamoto has already been frustrated by Kong Jie, The whole person looks much more humble, seeing Yoshio Shinozuka, Yamamoto respectfully saluted the military salute, "General! ”

"Here, sit down!"

"Hey!"

After Yamamoto sat down, Yoshio Shinozuka said: "Yamamoto-kun, then I'll get straight to the point, this time our army reinforced the strength of nine Japanese brigades, and combined with the fourth mixed brigade to attack the independent regiment, and ended up in a fiasco, do you know where the key point is?" ”

Yamamoto frowned slightly, and said, "General, what do you mean, the small combat unit of the Eighth Route Army that infiltrated behind enemy lines during the battle between the two sides and attacked the temporary joint headquarters in one fell swoop?" ”

"Yes, the temporary joint command was destroyed, and all the jade, including Yamaguchi-kun, including the nine captains, was shattered, which was a fatal blow to our army, and it led to the total defeat of this time.

This is undoubtedly the tactic of infiltrating behind enemy lines and decapitating that Yamamoto-kun often mentioned, and I originally wanted to see this scene on the body of the special team, but I didn't want to see it on the enemy. ”

Yoshio Shinozuka said calmly with a little dissatisfaction.

Yamamoto lowered his head: "It was Yamamoto who lived up to the high hopes of the general!" ”

Yoshio Shinozuka glanced at Yamamoto, stepped forward and patted Yamamoto lightly on the shoulder, then sat down back in the chair, and continued calmly:

"There is an old saying in China, it is called shame and then courage, and there is also the truth that the mourning army will win, it is nothing to fail a few times, as long as you can learn from the lessons of defeat, and finally destroy the opponent in one fell swoop, that is victory."

"Although the Eighth Route Army is backward in equipment, ammunition is scarce, and the quality of personnel is also very poor, they have this quality, and they will not be ashamed to learn from the enemy, just like many tactics of our army, which can soon be seen in their troops, which shows that the Eighth Route has always learned combat experience from our imperial troops."

"Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated in a hundred battles, and the Chinese art of war has studied this very thoroughly."

"Yamamoto-kun, it's time for us to calm down and learn from the Eight Paths to learn from their strengths."

"Hey! Yamamoto is taught! Yamahamoto should say.

Yoshio Shinozuka said: "Continuing this topic, although the equipment and military literacy of the Eighth Route are not good, they are better at being familiar with the mountain environment, and they are engaged in guerrilla warfare, sports warfare, sparrow warfare, mine warfare, and so on. ”

"These are the places where we should learn. Over the years, why has the Eighth Route Army been swept again and again, but why has it always been a symptom rather than a root cause? ”

"The most important point is that the forces of the Eighth Route are more dispersed, and the vast mountainous area is used as a guerrilla zone.

Each of our sweeps consumes a lot of manpower, material resources, and time.

And they only need to hide a little to avoid our soldiers.

In this way, we will only get more and more tired, but the Eight Roads can still maintain their vigorous energy.

At the end of the day, we're using too much energy to deal with the eight roads, but we haven't improved much efficiency.

Some artillery attacks on mosquitoes mean that an attack without a target will never be effective. ”

Yamamoto said thoughtfully, "General, what do you mean?" ”

Yoshio Shinozuka said: "I have been thinking about the complete elimination of the Eighth Route Army for a long time, and the sweep that was blindly launched by spending a lot of manpower and material resources will always be a symptom but not a cure.

In order to completely remove this hidden danger of the Eighth Route Army, we need to launch more targeted offensive means.

And all this, from your Yamamoto special team, as well as the Eighth Route Army's operation to infiltrate behind enemy lines and defeat the temporary joint command, I see hope.

It's very simple, if the Eight Roads like to fight guerrilla warfare, we will fight guerrilla warfare, and if Eight Roads likes to fight sports warfare, we will fight sports with sports, and Eight Roads like to fight sparrow warfare, and we can also use sparrows to deal with sparrows.

Cultivated with the resources of our empire and aimed at the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, is it not comparable to the Eighth Route Army, which can't even eat enough? ”

Yamamoto suddenly said: "Your Excellency General, do you mean that you will no longer use large-scale troops to sweep the Eighth Route Army, but cultivate small groups of elite combat troops and eat the guerrilla units of the Eighth Route Army one by one?" ”

Yoshio Shinozuka nodded with a smile, and then said, "Yes, I have this idea, which is why I called you over." ”

"After this battle, in view of the increasingly difficult situation of the Eighth Route Army, I applied to the commander-in-chief for a relatively special unit, all members of this force have undergone special training, and have lived with the Chinese for a long time, they can speak Chinese quite fluently, and even master many local dialects, as well as local folk customs, culture, traditions, and so on, and they also have a considerable understanding."

"They can be easily camouflaged and lurk inside the Eighth Route Army's roots."

"Waiting for an opportunity to find the location of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and at the same time carry out the mission of assassinating the officers of the Eighth Route Army and spying on military intelligence."

"You spend some more time, give them some special military training, enhance their combat effectiveness, and then infiltrate the enemy's interior."

"In addition, our army will also train a group of plainclothes teams to act in concert to fight against the guerrilla operations of the Eighth Route Army."

"The focus is on dealing with the Independent Regiment, if the Independent Regiment Command can be destroyed in one fell swoop, I think it will be an absolutely irreversible blow to the Independent Regiment."

"Hey!" Yamamoto should say.

……

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With the end of the Japanese army's crushing defeat at the hands of the Independent Regiment at Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, the influence of this campaign is far from over.

The morale of the Japanese puppet army was low for a while, and the anti-Japanese sentiment of the Chinese troops in the entire Shanxi was high, so it was not mentioned for the time being.

However, it was said that because of the unprecedented fiasco of the Spring Sweep, there was even what Yoshio Shinozuka called the greatest humiliation of the Japanese army on the battlefield against China since the Manchurian Incident.

The top brass of the Japanese army accused the North China Front of being unfavorable in combat.

Not long after the end of the spring sweep on the 12th, Tada Jun, the former commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in North China, was accused of poor command by the high-level because of the failure of the spring sweep, especially the fiasco of the Japanese army in the first battle at Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, which had a very bad impact, and was transferred out of North China, and Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji took over the post of commander-in-chief of the North China Front.

Compared with the previous commander-in-chief, Tada Jun, the newly appointed Okamura Ninji, has always been known for being ruthless, arbitrary, and cunning in the army.

When it comes to the various means of dealing with the Eighth Route Army, this Okamura Ningji is undoubtedly on a higher level.

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The commander-in-chief of the North China Front of the devil was changed, and when the news reached the independent regiment, the soldiers were in a meeting at the regiment headquarters.

Kong Jiezheng proposed to commend the commando team's exploits in infiltrating behind enemy lines, destroying the Japanese Temporary Joint Command in one fell swoop, and even forcing the Japanese army to retreat on its own initiative.

For this reason, even Huang Baiyang, the platoon commander of the sniper platoon, had to give Ye Min a thumbs up and admired: "Now that my old Yang is convinced, if you want to say that the most elite combat unit of our independent regiment, your commando team recognizes the second, and no one dares to recognize the first." ”

"Good guy, the two sides are fighting hotly, you infiltrated behind the enemy and directly put the devil's command to the end, if you really run into a force like you in the war, then you will have to fight a hammer!"

The cadres who talked about the humorous joke burst into laughter.

Then, Wang An, head of the enemy engineering department, arrived and reported the news, but the battalion and company commanders did not realize the seriousness of the problem, and even joked.

"The devil has suffered too many defeats, and he has no choice but to change people, Tada Jun, that old devil, I don't think it's very good, this time it is estimated that it is thicker."

The commander of the first battalion, Wang Leihu, mocked unabashedly.

"That's it, isn't it just a change of commander-in-chief! This little devil, how should we beat it! ”

The cadres laughed, and as time went on, the laughter quickly subsided again.

Because everyone noticed that the head of the regiment had not smiled, and his face was ugly, and his brows were deeply furrowed.

"Commander, is this Okamura Ningji a powerful person?"

Shen Quan guessed the reason and asked tentatively.

The war criminal Okamura Ninji is naturally powerful, and what is even more powerful is his ruthlessness and cunning, among the several commanders-in-chief of the Japanese army, this Okamura Ninji is the most difficult.

The numerous crimes committed in the war of aggression against China are also too numerous to mention.

Kong Jie knows this.

But what should come will still come after all, Kong Jie settled down, was not afraid, and said with a smile: "The little devil is not stupid, this Tada Jun is not good, he can't change to a more one, so this Okamura Ningji must be more powerful than Tada Jun." ”

"But it's nothing, it's still the same sentence, the soldiers will block, the water will cover the earth, the little devil is powerful, our independent regiment is more powerful than his little devil."

When Kong Jie said this, he naturally despised the enemy strategically, but tactically, Kong Jie attached great importance to the opponent.

The soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, what were they worried about as a regiment commander!

After the meeting, Kong Jie immediately racked his brains to recall his impressions of Okamura Ningji in all aspects, as well as the various vicious methods that Okamura Ningji had done against the Eighth Route Army.

Then find a way to deal with it one by one and resolve it.

I thought about it until it was dark.

After combing everything that should be combed, Kong Jie stretched his waist, walked out of the regiment room, and moved his body.

Adequate preparation for the response allowed Captain Kong to regain his self-confidence.

Looking at the increasingly dazed sky, Head Kong leaked domineeringly in his own words:

Isn't it the little Okamura Ningji!

Come on, old devil, it's our turn to compete!

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