Yoshio Shinozuka and Kitagawa were continuing to deduce the operational deployment against the Eighth Route Army, when the signal corps suddenly arrived and stood at the door and reported:

"Your Excellency Commander, Shimada Nakazuo asks to see you!"

"Let him in!" Yoshio Shinozuka said without raising his head.

"Hey!"

A moment later, with the sound of powerful footsteps, an old devil with a solemn expression, possibly in his early 40s, wearing the rank of center-left, strode into the headquarters.

He respectfully saluted Yoshio Shinozuka and Kitagawa with a military salute: "General, Your Excellency the Chief of Staff!" ”

Yoshio Shinozuka raised his head and looked at Shimada Shozo's gaze, not like looking at an ordinary subordinate, but with some special kindness.

"Shimada-kun, what's the matter?"

Shimada Shozo replied loudly: "General, I would like to apply to you to participate in this secret raid on the Huangyadong Arsenal of the Eighth Route Army!" ”

Yoshio Shinozuka seemed stunned, and then said earnestly: "Shimada-kun, you should understand that the elite combat units of my empire should be used in key places.

This time to deal with the Huangyadong Arsenal of the Eighth Route Army, I have made sufficient deployment arrangements, and I don't need you elite airborne troops to participate in the battle. ”

“…… General, the hatred of Yamamoto Daizuo, we always remember that the warriors of the Airborne Forces led by me have all used the strictest environment in training for more than half a year, and are not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice at all.

Isn't it just to eliminate the Eighth Route Army and avenge Yamamoto Daizuo? ”

Speaking of this, Shimada's words became very decisive:

"Your Excellency General, please be sure to do it!"

It turned out that the Shimada Shozo in front of him, speaking of which, was one of the members of the Yamamoto special team led by Yamamoto back then.

However, it was said that at that time, when the Yamamoto special team was sneaking into the headquarters of a team, due to the trap deliberately set by Kong Jie, the whole army was finally wiped out, and all the members of the special team, including Yamamoto, were killed.

At this point, Yamamoto, an old devil who returned from studying at the German special forces academy and was full of military innovation theories of special operations, tried to carry forward special operations in the army, and even led the army's tactical innovation, died in this way.

Originally, the promotion of the Yamamoto Special Forces, including the special operations of the devils, in the army's tactics was basically broken here.

The last remaining members of the entire Yamamoto Secret Service are some of the reserve members of the Devil Secret Service Team.

At this time, there was another devil who had a special relationship with the Yamamoto secret service and the old devil Yamamoto Kazuki, Shimada Shozo stood up.

This Shimada Shozo was originally the oldest member of Yamamoto when he first formed the special team.

Later, because he was seriously injured in the battle, he retired early.

Later, in China, he heard about the collapse of the Yamamoto special team, and the old devil Shimada Shozo was angry, and chose to re-enlist, and found Yoshio Shinozuka and asked to return to the special team and serve as the commander of the special team.

And Yamamoto Kazuki has always been Yoshio Shinozuka's favorite general, and Yamamoto Kazuki's death has always been a regret in the bottom of his heart for Yoshio Shinozuka.

Yoshio Shinozuka simply agreed to Shimada's request.

and let Shimada Shozo take over the last remaining reserve force of Yamamoto's secret service.

Later, when Yoshio Shinozuka put forward a proposal to rebuild the Yamamoto Secret Service, Shimada Shozo put forward his own different views.

He argues:

The defeat of Yamamoto Kazuki, in addition to the excessive cunning of the Eighth Route Army, lured the Yamamoto special team into a trap.

Another reason for this is that the approach chosen by the entire Yamamoto team to raid operations is too traditional and complicated.

In this regard, Shozo Shimada's exact words were: "General, no matter how good the interspersed curve, no matter how stealthy a combat unit is, no matter how small the target is, how well camouflaged it is.

As long as you walk on the ground, you will always leave clues, which can easily lead to exposure.

That's why I've always believed that the way of invasion, infiltration, and invasion that the special operations of the special forces should choose should not be through the ground, but through the sky! ”

What does that mean?

This old devil advocates abandoning the complex mode of fighting by land.

The most simple and crude, but also the most direct and effective airborne method, to carry out dimensionality reduction strikes on enemy targets.

With an absolutely crushing combat mode, unleash surprise attacks on targets.

In the end, Yoshio Shinozuka was moved by Shozo Shimada's rather gambler-like, even daring.

Gambler psychology, this is one of the qualities that the devil commander has always had.

Therefore, with the assistance of the resources of Yoshio Shinozuka's First Army, Shimada Shozo led the reserve troops left over from the original Yamamoto Special Forces, and some special elites were transferred from various departments to form an airborne force of the Japanese First Army headed by Shimada Shozo.

Shimada Shozo called his own airborne troops as:

Destroy the Chinese Airborne Forces!

Reading between the lines reveals that this old devil has great hatred for the Eighth Route Army and China because of the destruction of Yamamoto's special forces and the death of Yamamoto Kazuki.

For most of the next six months.

Unlike some regular airborne troops of the Japanese army, they are smiling and generous in the training of the airborne troops.

This special airborne unit, which was personally commanded by Shozo Shimada and conducted airborne training, had the special nature of a death squad from the very beginning.

The little devils are like crazy people who are enchanted and are not afraid of death at all.

Under the leadership of Shozo Shimada, this airborne force originally had more than 140 people.

In extremely bad weather conditions, he once jumped from a height of several thousand meters.

They jumped over the sea, over the lakes, over the mountains and forests, over the ravines.

The great rivers and mountains that originally belonged to China have their airborne figures almost everywhere.

How cruel was the airborne training that followed?

To illustrate this with a simple statistic:

Originally, there were more than 140 people in the airborne troops of the destruction of China, but after more than half a year of training, they had not been on a real battlefield at all.

As a result, only 112 people remained.

The remaining 30 people, all of whom were completely smashed into flesh during the parachute training, or were directly unlucky enough to be inserted into sharp tree trunks, some smashed into ravines, and some directly collided with the mountain.

All of them died on the spot in the most tragic way.

The training of this devil airborne troops can be described as crazy.

And Shimada Shozo's obsession has always been to take revenge on the Eighth Route Army for Yamamoto Kazuki.

How could he miss this good opportunity to destroy the Eighth Route Army's Huangyadong Arsenal?

Looking at Shimada Shozo's unusually determined look, vaguely, Yoshio Shinozuka seemed to see the figure of the love general Yamamoto Kazuki from Shimada Shozo's body again.

The same stubbornness, the same tenacity and heroism.

After finally hesitating for a moment, Yoshio Shinozuka still sighed and relieved:

"Well, since you've made up your mind, I won't stop you.

It's just one thing, Shimada-kun, I want your airborne troops to cooperate with the main combat force this time, and be sure to destroy the Huangyadong Arsenal of the Eighth Route Army, and in addition, I want you to come back alive one by one! ”

"Hey!" Shimada Shozo replied solemnly.

"Thank you, Your Excellency, Commander!"

With another military salute, Shimada Shozo turned his head and strode away.

Looking at the back of Shimada Shozo gradually walking away, Yoshio Shinozuka once again suddenly froze: "Kitagawa-kun, do you think Shimada-kun looks a little like Yamamoto-kun?" ”

Kitagawa said thoughtfully: "What the general said is very true, Shimada-kun does have a lot of similarities with Yamamoto-kun. ”

"That's it, let's not talk about this, let's continue the deduction!"

Yoshio Shinozuka shook his head with a smile and continued the topic at hand: "Then the combat units we used to attack the Huangyadong Arsenal of the Eighth Route Army are in addition to the original several mechanized combat squadrons, as well as the main combat units of the 36th Division that are rapidly moving towards the northeast, as well as the flying units that cooperate with the operation.

Now we should add the Airborne Forces led by Shimada-kun! ”

With the narration, the look on Yoshio Shinozuka's face seemed to become more and more confident.

"Knocking out the Huangyadong Arsenal of the Eighth Route Army is the operational goal that our army must complete this time.

However, this is only one of them.

This time, our army transferred troops, and even chose to sacrifice a large number of advance strongholds in the quasi-security areas on the outer line, as well as the combat opportunities that were only exchanged for towns and villages.

If it is just the replacement of an arsenal of the Eighth Route Army, how can it be regarded as a subversive victory? ”

Yoshio Shinozuka, who was looking at the combat map, had a smile on the corner of his mouth:

"Isn't Balu particularly good at attacking the east and the west, and encircling the point to send reinforcements?

This time, we will treat others the way they do.

The combat units attacking the Huangyadong Arsenal of the Eighth Route Army included some mechanized combat units, one elite combat unit, and other flying units and the airborne troops led by Shimada Jun, and these forces were sufficient.

As the largest Huangyadong Arsenal of the Eighth Route Army, it was attacked by our army.

The Eighth Route Army is bound to frantically reinforce in the direction of the Huangyadong Arsenal.

Then, our army can use the Huangyadong Arsenal as this point, and then come to an operation to encircle the point and send reinforcements. Use the main forces of the 36th Division, which our army ambushed along the route in advance, as well as part of the mechanized combat units.

A huge trap net was set up for the troops of the Eighth Route Army who came to reinforce them, and the main combat units of the Eighth Route Army who came to reinforce them were wiped out. ”

With Yoshio Shinozuka's narration.

A few days later, because of the surprise attack of the Japanese army on the base area of the 385th Brigade, the Eighth Route Army immediately flicked a shot and directly attacked the Huangyadong Arsenal in the north of Licheng County, and then used the Huangyadong Arsenal to encircle the point to send reinforcements, which eventually caused the Eighth Route Army to fall into the trap set by the Japanese army.

Not only was the arsenal destroyed, but the reinforcements also suffered heavy casualties.

It seems to have appeared in front of the eyes of the two old devils.

Kitagawa, the chief of staff of the devil, couldn't help but praise two sentences, and then added:

"In addition, General, during this period of time, with the retreat of our army's strongholds, towns and villages in the outer security area, a large number of troops of the Eighth Route Army have left their base areas and gradually advanced in the direction of our army's security area.

Once the battle around the Huangyadong Arsenal began.

The 385th Brigade, which was closest to Licheng County, was pinned down by the main forces of several mixed brigades of our army, and the Eighth Route Army here was completely immobile.

The base area of the Eighth Route Army, which is located around the Huangyadong Arsenal, is due to the large-scale advance of the Eighth Route Army troops to the outer line.

It is in a state of emptiness of troops.

In this case, if the Eighth Route wants to quickly rescue the Huangyadong Arsenal, it can only quickly dispatch reinforcements from the base area in other directions of Taihang.

Then the defensive strength of the Eighth Route Army's base areas in other parts of Taihang will inevitably be weakened again.

At this time, the several mixed brigades and regiments of our army in the base area of the 385th Brigade could mainly contain the main combat forces of the 385th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

At the same time, he secretly shrank part of his forces and prepared to launch a surprise attack on the empty base area of the Eighth Route Army.

In addition, the reserve troops we have prepared in advance, including a large number of imperial cavalry units stationed in Mongolia that we have contacted in advance, can wait for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the large number of Eighth Route Army base areas that are empty of troops.

All military and economic construction of the Eighth Route in the base area will be completely destroyed.

Of course, at this time, the defenders of our army, which were originally shrinking in the main county towns and towns under the pressure of the Eighth Route Army, could also order to attack from all sides at the same time and drag the troops of the Eighth Route Army on the outer line of the public security area to prevent these troops of the Eighth Route Army from returning to the base areas. ”

Speaking of this, Beichuan couldn't help laughing: "General, speaking of which, this seems to be a home-changing tactic that the Eighth Route Army often uses to deal with our imperial troops when they conduct sweeps.

We went to the base area of the Eighth Road, and the Eighth Route took the opportunity to sneak up on our security area in a roundabout way.

But this time it was the opposite, and the Eighth Road hit our quasi-security zone. Why did we take the opportunity to take a detour and go straight to the hinterland of the Eighth Route Base Area.

With the reinforcement of air firepower, all encounters will be eliminated, and this move will definitely destroy the entire Taihang, as well as the economic and military construction foundation of the Eighth Route Army base area in the northwest of Shanxi.

In addition, the Huangyadong Arsenal of the Eighth Route Army was completely defeated, and the reinforcement of the main force of the Eighth Route Army was severely damaged.

After this battle, it was enough to inflict unprecedented heavy losses on the entire Shanxi Eighth Route Army! ”

"Roar!"

Yoshio Shinozuka nodded.

"I have always been worried about the fact that our army's artillery test site and processing plant were attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and the artillery and ammunition were intercepted by the Eighth Route Army.

It would be great if the lost artillery and ammunition could be found and recaptured in this operation.

There's really no way.

If it can be believed that it will be destroyed, as long as this batch of artillery and the equipment of the processing plant do not fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, there will still be room for maneuver. ”

Beichuan was relieved: "The general can rest assured, according to the situation of the Eighth Route Army."

No matter which Eighth Route has captured the equipment of our army's artillery test site and processing plant, most of them will be transferred to the Huangyadong Arsenal, the largest of the Eighth Routes.

If the Huangyadong Arsenal of the Eighth Route can be destroyed this time, the artillery and military equipment captured by the Eighth Route will also be destroyed. ”

"I hope so!" Yoshio Shinozuka said.

……