Okamura's words made Yamamoto finally face up to the Eighth Route Army, the army he thought was surviving in the cracks of the occupied areas in China.

After all, General Okamura in front of him is a clever commander who can beat the US landing army on Kuah Island in a fancy way, but such a clever commander is still defeated in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, which is backward in equipment and scarce in ammunition.

Yamamoto became more and more curious about how the Eighth Route Army did all this.

When it comes to this topic.

The old devil Okamura's face was full of bitterness, and his expression also fell into memory, and he slowly spoke: "At the beginning, our ordinary Imperial Field Squadron could easily deal with one of their battalions.

Even if it encounters a regimental-level combat unit of the Eighth Route Army, unless it is the main combat regiment of the Eighth Route Army, it is not an opponent of my Great Japanese Imperial Squadron at all.

Even if it is the main combat regiment of the Eighth Route Army, if the squadron of our empire attacks with a sneak attack, it may not be able to defeat it.

Even if you can't eliminate it, you can evacuate calmly.

At that time, the equipment of the Eighth Route Army was really poor, and in our opinion, it was not much different from a group of primitive natives.

It is no exaggeration to say that at that time, a casual wing of ours, even an elite infantry brigade, needed them to deal with the whole base area with all their might, and we even chased them all over the mountain.

Especially after the expansion of the Eighth Route Army, due to its poor military quality, we often dealt with one regiment of them, and we only needed one reinforced squadron.

At that time, we won more and lost less, and the battle loss ratio of both sides was often above 1 to 3, and if it was exaggerated, it could even play a casualty ratio of 1 to 10.

At that time, one of our squadrons could control a county town, and under the deterrence of the imperial army, there were Chinese troops everywhere who came to take refuge.

Although we were not able to completely destroy China in three months, we succeeded in occupying half of China's mountains and rivers in a short period of time. ”

Yamamoto said thoughtfully: "No one can defeat the Great Japanese Empire, and this is what a victory should look like...... But how could the situation have been reversed to such a bad state? ”

Hearing this, Okamura sighed.

"We spent decades preparing to occupy China, and it seemed that we were invincible and invincible.

But as the war accelerated, and as we occupied more and more territory, China's land was too large, even though we used a large number of troops to enter the Chinese battlefield.

Even if a very small number of troops were used to cooperate with the local Imperial Allied Army and those Chinese armed forces who surrendered to control the occupied area, there were still fewer troops and more troops.

As a result, our forces are becoming more and more dispersed and insufficient.

In addition, the stubborn resistance of the Chinese regular army, although they were defeated in one battle after another, they were never completely defeated, which led to the gradual elongation of our battle line, and the war has been in continuous attrition, resulting in the logistics of our army becoming more and more unsustainable.

Later, we took a long-term development and built some economic zones in the occupied areas of China in the form of war and warfare to provide the logistics needs of the army.

But no one could have imagined that when our imperial troops were in a head-to-head battle with the Chinese regular army, these Tubalu troops, who were in the middle of the occupation area, were originally just a Tubalu team called Hanako, would grow quietly.

We are still the same as us, but the Eight Paths continue to grow in the dark, learning from us, and finally they absorb the lessons of the war with us, and grow rapidly.

From the very beginning, they were flexible in their operations, familiar with our combat mode, and later developed many tactics in a targeted manner, and their superiority gradually shifted to them, especially the so-called Taihang Military Region of the Eighth Route Army.

Even their so-called steel helmets, with the support of technical arms, can defeat even our most elite field divisions in one-on-one combat.

How much did it go later?

There was even a humiliating incident in which a brigade of the security division in China surrendered under the blow of an armored unit and an infantry company of the Eighth Route Army! ”

"Yagayalu, have they forgotten the spirit of bushido?" Yamamoto didn't get angry when he heard it.

Okamura smiled bitterly: "Don't blame them, these recruits from China are not even suitable for the battlefield, the elite field divisions in front have all collapsed, and they have been scattered and organized, it is not surprising that there is such a situation."

It is really that the so-called steel helmets of the Eighth Route Army have grown too fast, and they are fighting in a system, and ordinary troops are not their opponents.

I'm just copying their tactics here, I'm ashamed, they already have a different way of fighting than we are, and we're still standing still! ”

Yamamoto asked, "Can't the Imperial Army fully learn their tactics?" ”

Okamura said: "I can't learn it, this is the most suitable tactic created by Yachiro, and I'm afraid no one else can learn it."

They are in order to win the war.

Not only did it carry out a series of tactical battles such as guerrilla warfare, movement warfare, ambush warfare, and annihilation warfare.

It has also improved a lot of equipment that can cause us trouble, such as heavy machine guns and wheels, grenadiers to mortars, and for example, I learned to throw these depth charges out in eight ways, they can change the equipment according to the battlefield conditions, and we can't replace them in a short time under our existing weapon system.

For example, they do not have many anti-aircraft weapons, but 12.7 heavy machine guns, 20-mm anti-aircraft guns, 37-mm anti-aircraft guns, and 76-mm anti-aircraft guns all fight in a system, and the efficiency is very high.

According to my observations, the triple 25-mm anti-aircraft gun on the general's warship, the middle one will not work normally in wartime, right?

Moreover, the general's battle is too sincere, and any battle plan is sent in detail through the radio, and if my calculation is correct, the defeat of Midway Island has something to do with the leakage of communications. ”

Yamamoto said: "How do you say that? ”

Okamura recounted how the Eighth Route Army had used the only radio they had at hand to deceive the Imperial troops in North China.

In the end, gritting his teeth in hatred, he suggested: "The general might as well give it a try, make a little more fake communication, reorganize a set of special communication codes, and hide a true message with a lot of false information."

The general can even send a fake message right now, saying that the troops of my Okamura on Kuah Island have run out of food and are short of ammunition, and they need to be replenished quickly, and then the general is ready to send troops to a certain position in the waters of Kuah Island in order to maintain supplies.

I am sure that the Americans will definitely send an aircraft carrier fleet to intercept.

This is just the lowest level of deception, the Eighth Route Army has used all kinds of means in order to deceive me over the years, all the intelligence seems to be true, but the result is all fake, and even their high-level cooperation with the front-line troops to deceive me. ”

As he spoke, he probably poked at the sad place, and Okamura's words were a little choked.

There have been too many people on the Eighth Road over the years!

Yamamoto was equally dumbfounded, amazed by the strong survivability and cunning operational thinking of this Chinese armed force, known as the Eighth Route Army.

Think about it again, if he Yamamoto is sent to the North China Front as the commander-in-chief, what can he Yamamoto do with such an extremely cunning opponent?

Perhaps thinking of something out of his mind, Yamamoto couldn't help but shudder, and then came back to his senses.

Fortunately...... Fortunately, he is not the commander-in-chief of the North China Front!

Then I felt emotional, I couldn't help but have a headache just thinking about it, and it was really embarrassing for Okamura.

The Battle of Kuah continued.

The Battle of Kuah continued.

Okamura, the old Baga, secretly learned the tactics of the Eighth Route Army, he set up an ambush circle on Kuah Island, lured the enemy deep after the ambush, and left a secret passage at the airport location, and after the US troops went deeper, they attacked the airport again, and after cutting off the back road of the Americans, they fought another war of annihilation!

Postwar.

Talking about this ambush battle, Yamamoto found it incredible.

"How can one place fight two ambushes?"

He had never heard of such a tactic, not even in his studies at the Military Academy.

The corners of Okamura's mouth were full of bitterness, naturally there would be no such examples, this was the first way to fight by the generals of the Eighth Route Army, and for this reason, the Japanese army in North China suffered a lot of losses.

Not only that, but this has caused panic on the part of the follow-up Japanese army, even if it has been ambushed on some roads, the transport team often does not dare to pass at will, and must always explore clearly, make sure that there is no ambush along the way before daring to go on the road, it is really a cup of bow and snake shadow, the wind is loud!

Okamura said: "Not only is it a second ambush, the Eighth Route even dares to carry out three, four, or even many ambushes in the same way, the most exaggerated thing is that there was once a transportation channel in our North China, and it was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army more than eight times in one year!" ”

"This ......"

Yamamoto's eyes widened with a look of incredulity.

Okamura said: "So this is just the beginning, and even I planted bombs around the airport, buried them relatively deep, and saved them for the third time."

These are all learning eight ways, all kinds of means emerge in endlessly, you think that he is attacking the west, but in fact, he is a thousand miles of leap forward, and he can't prevent it! ”

At this point, Yamamoto understood why Okamura, who was constantly thwarted and defeated by the so-called Eighth Route Army in North China, and the army commander who was transferred to Kuah Island, was able to beat the US army in a fancy way in the land confrontation on Kuah Island.

As he said, it's all thanks to the cunning and tough opponent of the Eighth Route Army!

……

On the side of the Eighth Route Army.

Kong Jie and other generals did not know that it was precisely because of their tossing behind enemy lines in North China that Okamura stepped down and was transferred to Kuah Island.

On the contrary, it became a nightmare for the US troops and other allied forces in the Battle of Kuah.

Later, although the allies led by the U.S. military had the last laugh in the Battle of Kuah, they suffered quite heavy casualties because of Okamura's strong command, and even became a nightmare for the U.S. side for a time.

The air force and navy under the command of Isoroku Yamamoto were constantly defeated.

However, in the jungles and mountainous areas of Kuah Island, Yamamoto relied on all kinds of outstanding guerrilla warfare, movement warfare, and mountain warfare to conduct tunnel warfare in combination with tunnels dug in various places, and the US landing force was stunned until the Japanese navy and air force were completely defeated.

Speaking of which, Okamura has always lost battles in North China, and originally lost his capital in the military circles.

- No one will hire a commander who always loses battles to lead the troops.

Until he reached the highlight moment of his life in the Battle of Kuah Island and shined.

This has once again accumulated a lot of military exploits for Okamura, an old devil.

This later became one of the capitals that allowed Okamura to serve as the last commander-in-chief of the Japanese army's dispatch forces in China and take over the position of Junroku Hata.

The old rival Okamura is online again, and in the capacity of a higher-level commander such as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese dispatch army, he is re-playing against the Eighth Route Army.

It's really unpredictable.

Of course, that's all for later.

……

At this time, the Eighth Route Army was actively preparing to attack Taiyuan City and assist the operation in the Jiaodong base area.

Because this attack on Taiyuan City was not like the last time, it was just a siege but not an attack, in order to attract the attention of the Japanese army, it was dry thunder and no rain.

This time, I want to go all out and completely kill this old nest of devils.

So the preparatory work is extraordinarily huge.

Main Enemies to Deal With:

The main garrison of Shandong is the 12th Army Headquarters stationed in Jinan, and the 59th Division Headquarters is responsible for the defense area around Jinan; The Tanaka Mixed Brigade stationed in Texas was responsible for the garrison of the Shide Line; The Fifth Independent Mixed Brigade stationed in Qingdao garrisoned Qingdao and the Jiaodong area, as well as the Jiaoji Line; The Independent Sixth Mixed Brigade stationed in Zhangdian was responsible for the garrison around Weixian; the 32nd Division stationed in the Yanzhou area; The 35 Division was stationed in the Kaifeng area.

There is also the 7th Independent Mixed Brigade of Yoshitaro Hayashi stationed in the area of Liaocheng in Luxi......

In view of the distribution of the Japanese army's various field units, the Eighth Route Army carried out joint operations in various base areas, dispatched its own troops, and made coordinated preparations.

At the meeting, Commander Chen of Southern Hebei said that the main forces of their Southern Hebei Military Region would be fully assembled, and after the campaign to attack Taiyuan began, they would immediately besiege Liaocheng and Dezhou, so as to attract the mixed brigade of the devil Tanaka Brigade and Lin Fangtaro.

Commander Lu of Jizhong also expressed his full support for the troops to attack Baoding, Jidong, and Xingtai, and to move all the newly built factories of the devils, and we must also engage in large-scale industry.

Deputy Yang of Jinchaji also spoke and said that he would go all out to attack Baoding, strive to attract all the troops from Beiping, Tianjin, and Zhangjiakou, create an opportunity to attack Zhangjiakou, and empty all the troops.

Lao Yang in northern Henan said that they would make every effort to prepare for the attack on the Fourth Brigade of the PY Cavalry, and first disrupt the deployment of the devils and mobilize the devils.

Ding Wei secretly muttered to Li Yunlong: "Old Li, Brigade Commander Zhang said that 75 mm caliber artillery is not a cannon, this is the second one in our Eighth Route Army to say so, what do you think?" ”

Li Yunlong said in a low voice: "You see that Lao Zhang and Lao Song sing and sing in harmony, how interesting it is, let's not expose others."

People have saved up their families, and they have this capital to make big deals, this Taiyuan City is a hot potato, if not, don't be, I won't go to this troubled water, this little devil in the Jiaodong area is still waiting for our Lao Li to go over!

These Shanxi devils have basically been replaced by recruit eggs, what kind of oil and water do you have to beat them? ”

Speaking of this, Li Yunlong poked Kong Jie who was sitting on the side again: "Hey, hey, old Kong, are you closing your eyes or thinking about the problem, why don't you make a sound?" ”

Before Kong Jie could say anything, the commander of the Qin Division next to him approached Li Yunlong and asked, "Old Li, haven't you always had ghost ideas?" Why don't you express your opinion, I heard that you are going to prepare a heads-up wrestling with the old brigade commander, is there such a thing? ”

Li Yunlong hurriedly said: "Old Qin, Brother Qin, my big brother Alas, don't be kidding, how can I be the opponent of the old brigade commander?"

Don't tell the old brigade commander! In this way, how about I send you a batch of anti-tank mines? ”

(End of chapter)