Brigade Commander Zhang continued: "Our new cement factory has been started, and while building roads, it is used for repairing fortifications in the mountains on the front line, and the troops are constantly gathering to do mountain attack and defense drills.

This year's grain harvest is good, with the food support of Commander Fu and the canned meat support of the northward detachment, the soldiers are all well fed, trained sufficiently, and are holding back their strength to fight Taiyuan City again.

In particular, once our iron and steel mills and special rigid smelters were mass-produced, we first imitated artillery shells, and the Type 45 150-mm heavy cannon, Type 97 150-mm cannon, Type 89 150-mm cannon, Type 96 150-mm howitzer, Type 38 150-mm howitzer, Type 91 105-mm howitzer, Type 92 105-mm cannon, Type 97 150-mm mortar, and Type II 120-mm mortar equipped by the heavy artillery units directly under our military region were all repaired and maintained.

With the cannonballs, we pulled them up to fight the devils, and let the little devils taste the taste of being bombed.

We have already calibrated all the fortifications in the west of the devil's city, and we are waiting for the headquarters to order ten thousand cannons to surprise the devils.

This is not counting our 75-caliber artillery, small-caliber flat-firing guns, mortars, which used to have more gas and less steel, but now we also have steel, and use artillery to export evil gas to us. ”

The big leader was the first to applaud and said, "Okay, it's good!" It's a cannon that makes our angry voices, and the troops brought out by Lao He are amazing, amazing. ”

The venue immediately applauded warmly, and the atmosphere became more lively.

Captain Song said even more happily: "Lao Zhang, it seems that Harada has sent a lot of good things outside Taiyuan City, when will I borrow this batch of heavy artillery, Lao Yang and I have been investigating Zhangjiakou for a long time, and watching the devils expand the industrial scale every day, my heart is itching!" ”

Brigade Commander Zhang smiled: "It's easy to say!" You need it whenever you need it, and we are here to support you whenever it is convenient! ”

"That's a good dare!"

Then Staff Officer Zhou of the 129th Division spoke on behalf of the troops of the 129th Division: "The main force of the 129th Division has crossed the Pinghan Railway ahead of schedule; Among them, the main force of the new 1st Brigade has already arrived at the 5th Division, and the main force of the 5th Division has already led Lao Pi to the south to converge with the Yang Department of the Northern Henan Base Area, and can cooperate with the 4th Cavalry Brigade of the Northern Henan Base Area against PY at any time.

The 386 Brigade Headquarters has also moved eastward into Jizhong, preparing to secretly approach the Baoding area, and is ready to fight with the Jinchaji troops in the Baoding area.

At the same time, when the Qin Department of the 1st Division and the Fan Department of the New 10th Brigade near SJZ were mobilized to reinforce other places in the area of the devil's SJZ and HD, another black tiger would dig out his heart and knock out the devil's lair in one fell swoop.

The 385 Brigade also assembled in central Hebei near Cangzhou to prepare for an attack on eastern Hebei.

The Iron Triangle troops have secretly assembled in southern Hebei and are deployed as planned, among which Ding Weibu is ready to make a feint attack on Liaocheng and then intersperse it with the anti-Japanese base in Tengzhou and Huxi.

Li Yunlong's troops also approached Jizhong, did a good job of feint to attack Jinan, interspersed with Binzhou, opened the road to the Jiaodong Peninsula, and destroyed all the winter sweeps that the devils were about to launch.

Kong Jie's main force served as a reserve, and after disrupting the devil's position, he directly interspersed Weixian on the Jiaodong Peninsula again. ”

The Japanese army plotted to attack the Jiaodong base area.

"The little devil's abacus is very good, but unfortunately it is destined to become a void, let's let the devil taste the taste of stealing chicken and rice.

At that time, the little devils in the Jiaodong base area will not be able to defeat them, and they will even have to lose Taiyuan City.

After this battle, the little devil broke his muscles and bones, and this new arrival, Naosaburo Okabe, should also stop! ”

The deputy commander-in-chief's speech was domineering.

The commanders unanimously agreed that they were trying to plot against the Jiaodong base area while the devils were ostensibly loosening control over Shandong and the air force was constantly sneaking up on it.

It was also an excellent time for the Eighth Route Army to raid Taiyuan City.

In these days, the Japanese army deliberately set off smoke bombs to replenish its troops to recuperate and recuperate, and suspended fighting with the Eighth Route Army, and even encouraged the troops below to engage in trade with the Eighth Route Army.

The Eighth Route Army was also paralyzing the judgment of the Japanese army, announcing the temporary renovation of various base areas.

The abandonment of the five cities of Licheng and Xiangyuan, as well as the voluntary retreat of various communication lines, sent a signal to the Japanese army that the Eighth Route Army was temporarily resting and recuperating and unwilling to continue to fight with the Japanese army.

Who would have guessed that at this juncture, the Eighth Route Army would not make a sound, and it would be a blockbuster, while reinforcing the Jiaodong base area, it was preparing to capture Taiyuan City at the same time?

……

……

In Beiping, the commander-in-chief of the North China Front of the Japanese Army, Naosaburo Okabe, was taking his staff officers to study the battle situation in the war room.

Speaking of recent deregulation initiatives in Shandong, Okabe asked:

"What is the reaction of the Eighth Route Army?"

The chief of staff of the devil replied: "General, the Eighth Route seems to have been fooled, and there is no special movement, and after we deregulated, the Eighth Route Army has also increased trade with our army." ”

Okabe nodded, he was very ambitious, "The trade with the Eighth Route Army in private, on the one hand, can also relieve the logistical pressure and food pressure of our army to a certain extent.

On the other hand, it can paralyze the judgment of the Eighth Route Army and cover our army's surprise attack plan against the Jiaodong base area of the Eighth Route Army.

In addition, through business dealings with the Eighth Route Army, we can try to find out the distribution of their troops, as well as the defensive deployment of the base area, etc., so as to accumulate intelligence in advance for the subsequent operations of our empire. ”

"Hey! Your Excellency the General is wise! ”

Gombo smiled, he didn't dare to say whether he was wise or not, but in just two weeks since he came to power, the entire North China Front Army can be said to have taken on a new look, the military spirit has been re-stabilized, and the law and order stability in the important occupied areas have also been further strengthened.

In such a comparison, he thinks that he is much stronger than his senior Okamura Ningji.

Speaking of his seniors.

Okabe suddenly asked curiously, "I don't know how Senior Okamura is doing." ”

…… At this time, if the horizon of the sky changes time and space.

Guah, that is, the Guadalcanal region.

Allied forces, mainly American forces, and the Japanese had started a new round of confrontations, and a war later became known as the Battle of Kuah.

The supreme military commander of the Japanese side in this battle was Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, commander of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, and this old devil was bent on washing away the shame of the defeat at Midway Island and seizing the initiative in the Pacific War in one fell swoop.

In order to regain the strategic initiative, the Battle of Kuah Island was launched.

Needless to say, the confrontation on the naval side is Admiral Yamamoto's area of expertise.

What Yamamoto didn't expect was that on the eve of his preparation for the Battle of Kuah, the headquarters actually parachuted an army commander into himself, General Okamura.

At this time, Okamura Ninji suffered a defeat on the North China Front, retired from the position of commander-in-chief of the North China Front, and was transferred to Kuah Island to command the army operations.

There is a bit of loneliness in Pingyang.

As the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Yamamoto made great contributions to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor of the US Army, and it was the time when his spirit was high.

The two are dwarfed.

In addition, the Japanese military system at that time was divided in this way, and the highest organs of the army were the Ministry of the Army, the General Staff Headquarters, and the Training Headquarters.

Okamura Ninji's highest rank at this time was only the commander-in-chief of the North China Front.

And the highest organs of the Japanese Navy are the Ministry of the Navy, the Naval Command Department and the Combined Fleet.

Yamamoto, as the commander of the Combined Fleet, also completely suppressed Okamura in his position.

Not only that, after graduating from the Japanese Naval University, Yamamoto also studied at Harvard for three years, which was gilded back, and his ability in military command was definitely not inferior to Okamura.

Okamura graduated directly from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School and began to participate in combat.

So when he learned that Okamura was transferred to Kuahma, Yamamoto was originally very dissatisfied.

In his opinion, his army commanders are all elites, and they are not inferior to Okamura, the former commander-in-chief of the North China Front.

In the final analysis, the high-spirited Yamamoto looked down on the defeated battle in front of him, who was beaten by the Tubalu guerrillas and lost his official position, and was transferred to the army commander of Kuah Island in embarrassment.

Okamura, who arrived on Kuah Island, was also holding back his anger.

This was wronged in the defeat of the Eighth Route when the North China Front Army, how did you know that this melon island still makes people look at it coldly.

In the end, it was under such circumstances that the Battle of Kuah Island officially broke out.

In the whole battle, one side was the allied forces led by the US army, and the other side was the invading force mainly the Japanese army, and the two sides launched an all-round operation in the army, air force, and navy.

Needless to say, the naval and air force operations were under Yamamoto's full command.

The army was commanded by Okamura, the former commander of the North China Front, who had parachuted in.

At this point, Okamura's opponents, the Allied forces, mainly the American army, immediately learned the origin of the opponent's army commander, Admiral Okamura, and immediately gave birth to a taunt that was almost identical to Yamamoto's.

"I heard that it is the commander of the Japanese army who can't even defeat the Eighth Route Armed Forces in China, is such a person worthy of being our opponent?"

"I've heard that those Chinese Eighth Route Army troops even need to go to the battlefield with red cherry guns and broadswords!"

"The Japanese army has decayed to the point where such a person is needed to be in command?"

After the official outbreak of the Battle of Kuah.

The US warships covering the formation began shelling the Japanese positions on Kuah Island, and then the carrier-based planes that took off from the aircraft carrier flew over Kuah Island and carried out fierce bombing and strafing fire.

Yamamoto Isoroku organized the forces of the navy and air force to fight back.

The two sides engaged in a fierce contest that looked more like a show off of their industrial and military prowess.

Almost all of the Japanese attention was drawn to this first encounter.

Okamura, who temporarily served as the commander of the army, had insight into the hidden cunning intentions of the US military in this hot first confrontation.

He speculated that the US military was just bluffing, and that the immediate confrontation must be to cover the covert landing, and that the landing of the land troops was the only way for the US military to seize control of Kuah Island.

Okamura knows too well about such a tactic of setting up a suspicious formation and attacking the west.

The Eighth Route Army, which was in the occupied area, was good at this.

The Yankees, who rely on their well-equipped equipment and ignore tactics, are still far behind in this regard!

Okamura, who was aware of this intention, immediately personally led an elite unit all the way and secretly transferred and deployed it in the direction of the river beach where the US troops were most likely to land.

At that time, he was preoccupied with the war between the navy and the air force, and his preconceived dissatisfaction with Okamura, Yamamoto did not have an insight into the intentions of the American military.

I learned that Okamura took the elite all the way away at this juncture.

Yamamoto Isoroku was so angry that he cursed and claimed that he would send Okamura back to the same way.

As everyone knows, with the support of naval artillery and aviation firepower, the first wave of US landing troops has already begun to make a secret landing, and the commander of the US 5th Marine Regiment was the first to rush to the beachhead, and the troops followed closely behind, quickly landed and then took control of the coast, and immediately developed in depth and tried to advance according to the predetermined battle plan.

At this time, what did the direction of the river beach look like according to Yamamoto's original plan?

Since the Japanese army did not expect the US side to secretly land in such a way,

At this time, the Japanese troops on the river beach were completely unprepared, and most of them were engineers, including Korean laborers sent by the Japanese army to help build the airfield.

This unit did not carry many weapons at all, and it was not the elite of the Japanese army, so it did not have much combat effectiveness.

There are no solid fortifications in the direction of the river beach, and it is completely an open field that can be attacked.

In this way, the success of the landing operation even far exceeded the expectations of the US military.

After a large number of American troops quickly landed, only a small number of Japanese garrison troops did not dare to resist at all, and fled into the jungle in a panic.

This proved that the Japanese defense in the direction of the river beach airfield was almost non-existent, and they did not expect the American troops to suddenly land from this direction in this way.

In the end, the U.S. military successfully landed without even firing a shot.

The colonel who led the team loudly mocked the incompetence and stupidity of the Japanese army.

first scolded Yamamoto Fifty-six, and then ridiculed the so-called General Okamura, who was transferred from the North China side of the Japanese army, as nothing more than a rabble.

And are things really going so well?

After many years of confrontation with the tactically shrewd, tough and cunning troops of the Eighth Route Army in the occupied area, Okamura, an old devil, had already tormented the old devil Okamura into an absolute combat commander who was proficient in all of them, had a keen sense of military smell, and had amazing insight.

Since Okamura had sensed the intention of the US military to make a covert landing in advance, how could he not make preparations?

And that's not all.

This old devil has a great appetite, plus since he was transferred to Kuah Island from the commander of the North China Front Army to the current transfer to Kuah Island, first in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, and then in the hands of the Japanese troops on Kuah Island, including the officers of Yamamoto's 56th Brigade, he was humiliated and had long held back his anger.

When he led his elite troops to the vicinity of the river beach airfield.

The subordinate officers proposed to immediately strengthen the defensive deployment to guard against the enemy's landing.

Okamura's mind was filled with a series of actions by the Eighth Route Army to lure the enemy deep and ambush the imperial troops, he shook his head slowly, and then the words he said made the Japanese officers under him shudder.

"No, deploy defenses in advance, you can only repel these American troops!"

"And we are not only here to defeat the enemy army, but also to completely destroy the enemy army, let's make this place a large slaughterhouse, put all the American troops who have landed in, sit in that river beach area, and then start the slaughter, I think this will be a killing feast!"

Okamura, who has been holding back the fire in his belly, now just wants to vent.

He wanted to tear these hateful enemies to pieces.

He clenched his fists and roared inwardly, if he can't kill the cunning Eighth Route Army, can't he kill you stupid American troops who have landed?

That's it.

In the sight of the Japanese forward observation posts, a large number of American troops successfully landed and gradually advanced from the river beach area.

After two hours in a row, it is estimated that seven or eight thousand US troops have successfully landed on Kuah Island.

However, His Excellency Okamura, the Supreme Commander on the side, still waited in silence and did not give the battle order.

Although all the artillery and machine guns in the vicinity have been erected, and the troops responsible for cutting off the retreat of the American troops and destroying the American landing battleships are all ready, this place has long been turned into a large slaughterhouse made of countless local flesh mills......

(End of chapter)