Toshimatsu Kasai, a communications staff officer, had just walked to the door when he ran into Kazuki Yamamoto, who walked in with a big left saber.

Kasai Toshimatsu is just a center-left, and he takes the initiative to stand up and head Yamamoto Kazuki, while Yamamoto Kazuki nods slightly at Kasai Toshimatsu.

After Kasai Toshimatsu left, Kazuki Yamamoto continued to walk towards the commander Yoshio Shinozuka.

Seeing Yamamoto Kazuki, Yoshio Shinozuka's face was as black as the bottom of a pot softened slightly: "Yamamoto-kun, you are here, please take a seat." ”

Yoshio Shinozuka stepped out from behind his desk and stretched out his hand in the direction of the chessboard, and then the two walked over and sat down facing each other across the board.

Kazuki Yamamoto picked up the teapot next to him and filled Yoshio Shinozuka's blue and white porcelain teacup.

Yoshio Shinozuka said to the chessboard in front of him: "Yamamoto-kun, this is the endgame that I and Chief of Staff Nanshan have not finished, what do you think?" ”

Yamamoto Kazuki's eyes sank, and after only two glances, he said, "Your Excellency, with all due respect, this is a draw. ”

"It's a draw." Yoshio Shinozuka said, "Does Yamamoto-kun have a way to break the game?" ”

"It is absolutely impossible to completely defeat the opponent in this game of chess, unless you play another game and start the game again."

Yamamoto Kazuki knew the meaning of Yoshio Shinozuka's words, and seemed to be asking about the chess game, but in fact he was asking him about the current battle situation between the First Army and the Eighth Route Army.

Yoshio Shinozuka sighed, this sweep cost so much material, financial and manpower, but it still fell short, which made the old devil very unwilling.

"Have you heard about Yamazaki-kun's martyrdom?"

Picking up the teacup and taking a sip, Yoshio Shinozuka calmed down his irritability a little and changed the topic and asked.

"I heard that Yamazaki-kun graduated from the Imperial Army Academy and is an excellent Imperial soldier."

Yamamoto said unceremoniously with a serious face: "But he made the common mistake of most imperial soldiers, regarded himself as the god of war, and with a force of more than a thousand people, he went deep into the enemy's hinterland, how could he not be defeated!" ”

"I said a long time ago that the Tubalu is no longer what it used to be, and they already have the strength to quickly annihilate a wing of the Imperial Army."

"It's really stupid to use this kind of central flowering tactic."

Shinozuka Yoshio listened to Yamamoto's words of scolding Sang, his face was a little embarrassed, and let the Yamazaki detachment enter the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army, after all, it was the battle plan that he personally agreed.

Before the war, he agreed with Kusunayama Hideyoshi and Tada Jun that after the main force of the Eighth Route Army launched the battle, after more than two months of attack, it was now a tired division.

Desperately needed to recuperate and replenish.

Moreover, it is estimated that the shells of the Eighth Route may not be consumed much.

At this time, it is not difficult to give the Eighth Road a center to bloom and eliminate the Eighth Road in one fell swoop.

However, the ideal is very plump, but the reality is very skinny.

The sweeping troops searched for several days in the Eighth Route base area, but they didn't even see the hair of the main force of the Eighth Route.

However, it was not without gains, and everywhere the Japanese army went, houses, farmland, hospitals, schools, and arsenals were all destroyed.

Yoshio Shinozuka says:

"The destruction of the Yamazaki detachment is nothing more than adding more than a thousand heroic souls to the Yasukuni Shrine."

"But I'm thinking about the honor of the First Army."

"In the past few months, the First Army has suffered heavy losses, with more than 10,000 casualties among its soldiers, and its honor has been disgraced."

"I've been thinking about how to save the honor of the First Army and wash away the shame."

Yamamoto Kazuki said: "General, with all due respect, with the current strategy and tactics against the Tsuchihachi, I am pessimistic about the battle situation. ”

"The commander of the Eighth Route is very smart, and he knows very well that the Eighth Route Army is not an opponent of the Imperial Army with its current strength."

"So every time I faced the sweep of the imperial army, I adopted the tactics of avoiding the edge of the imperial army, so that the imperial army's fists hit the cotton every time."

This said to Shinozuka Yoshio's heart, Shinozuka Yoshio said: "Not only to avoid the edge of the imperial army, this group of mud-legged people often jump to the outside line and ambush the imperial army's transport team, this afternoon's transport team from Yangquan was ambushed by the Eighth Road, and the two imperial army squadrons that went to the aid were all broken. ”

"That's to be expected."

Yamamoto Kazuki still had a cold and paralyzed face, without the slightest expression of surprise on his face: "Now the Eighth Road is still adopting the strategy of avoiding the edge of the imperial army, once the Eighth Road takes the initiative to fight the imperial army, it means that the Eighth Road has the strength and chance of defeating the imperial army, and the imperial army is afraid at that time..."

After speaking, Yamamoto Kazuki's eyes flashed.

Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly felt a little restless when he heard this, and he would not worry about this problem without military assistance from the outside world.

Even the government forces of China, which controlled the distribution of resources, financial, material and manpower, were defeated and retreated by the Japanese army, and most of China fell into Japanese hands.

What's more, the dirt road that only occupies a few small plots?

However, after receiving military assistance, coupled with flexible strategies and tactics, the Tsuchihachi Road has already shown good combat effectiveness and poses a considerable threat to the Japanese army.

In time, Tubalu has full wings, and its weapons and equipment are even better than those of the imperial army...

Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't sit still, and asked in a deep voice, "Yamamoto-kun, what do you mean by restarting the chess game just now?" ”

Kazuki Yamamoto said: "Your Excellency, the subject of my research is special operations, so I have always considered problems with the thinking of special tactics. ”

"The so-called restarting the chess game is to reformulate a plan to sweep and decapitate the eight roads with the special team as the center."

Yoshio Shinozuka asked, "Didn't you say that there are internal ghosts in the headquarters, and the special forces will not easily behead the head of the Eighth Road, why did you change your mind this time?" ”

Kazuki Yamamoto looked left and right, and Yoshio Shinozuka saw this, and then walked to the door, took the guards away, and ordered no one to approach.

After making sure that no one was eavesdropping, Yoshio Shinozuka said, "Yamamoto-kun, it's just the two of us here, can we talk about your plan?" ”

Yamamoto Kazuki nodded and said, "Your Excellency General, I beg your pardon, I secretly trained two troops to decapitate the Eight Roads instead of the special team. ”

"Oh?" Yoshio Shinozuka frowned at first, and then said, "Yamamoto-kun is for the sake of secrecy, it is understandable, which two troops are they?" ”

Kazuki Yamamoto said: "The captains are Lieutenant Shigeo Mashiko of the 9th Squadron of the 223rd Wing of the 36th Division and Lieutenant Momoyoshi Okawa, the squadron leader of the 224th Wing. ”

"These two people were specially selected by me in the last training camp, and there are 200 elites of the imperial army, and they have not been sent back to the original unit."

"Although they can't meet the standards of special soldiers, their individual soldier quality is stronger than that of ordinary imperial soldiers, and after my intensive training, their individual soldier quality is stronger than that of the elite soldiers of the permanent division."

"Lieutenant Mashiko and Lieutenant Okawa each brought 100 elite people to carry out the mission of beheading the head of the Eight Roads in place of the special team, and there was no problem."

"These two units are not up to the standards of the special forces, I call them the advance team."

Kazuki Yamamoto is not a fool, on the contrary, he is smarter than everyone in the upper echelons of the First Army Command.

Since the last failed sneak attack on the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Daxiawan, he always felt that there were ghosts in the top echelons of the First Army, and even the whereabouts of the special forces had been kept secret, and most of the time even the commander Yoshio Shinozuka didn't know where the special forces were or what they were doing.

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"Advance team? It's kind of interesting. Yoshio Shinozuka nodded, "But the most critical problem now is that the Imperial Army does not know the whereabouts of the head of the Eighth Road. ”

Kazuki Yamamoto said: "As early as a few months ago, I sent a telegram to a special instructor in Germany, asking him to help purchase and send the most advanced radio detection equipment. ”

"Radio detection equipment has arrived two days ago, and this radio detection equipment can accurately detect the location of all radio signals within a radius of several tens of kilometers."

"The advance team took it close to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, as long as the high-power radio station of the Eighth Route was receiving and receiving telegrams, then the head of the Eighth Route Army could be found and beheaded."

"Yo Xi!" Yoshio Shinozuka nodded happily, "It turns out that Yamamoto-kun has already prepared, how many sweeping troops do you need to use?" ”

"Your Excellency, you only need two brigades."

Yamamoto Kazuki's expression did not rise or fall in the slightest.

"Two brigades, not much." Yoshio Shinozuka muttered, "However, this battle plan needs the approval of the North China Front Command. ”

Although Yoshio Shinozuka was the commander of the First Army, he could only move the strength of one brigade at will at most, and the transfer of two brigades required the approval of the commander of the North China Front.

"I'm sure Commander Tada will agree to this battle plan." Yamamoto Kazuki said, "But I have a request, this battle plan does not require the participation of the staff officers of the headquarters. ”

"If Commander Tada agrees to this battle plan." Yoshio Shinozuka said, "I agree to your request. ”

"However, I also have a request, that is, this combat operation must only succeed and not fail."

"Hey!" Yamamoto Kazuki was the first to say, "I will not live up to the requirements of His Excellency the General!" ”

……

With the order of Yoshio Shinozuka, the swept devil army withdrew from the southeast base area of Jin Province one after another the next day.

Although the devil sweeping troops did not find the main decisive battle of the Eighth Route Army, they wreaked havoc in the base area, causing considerable losses to the base area of the Eighth Route Army.

The 9th Brigade, the 29th Brigade, the 36th Division, and the 37th Division withdrew to their respective defense areas.

Yoshio Shinozuka was not idle, planning to make a comeback, and in order to persuade Tada Jun to agree to the beheading operation, he personally flew to Beiping and met Tada Jun in the Iron Lion Alley.

Although the sweep plan failed, the Japanese base camp gave Tada Jun another chance.

After the two met, Yoshio Shinozuka showed Yamamoto Kazuki's battle plan to Tada Jun, and blew Yamamoto's battle plan into the sky.

After listening to Yoshio Shinozuka's narration, Tada Jun was also very satisfied after reading this beheading plan.

In Tada's view, the failure of the cage tactics and the sweep showed that the previous tactics did not work, and the dangerous tactics of the soldiers might be able to achieve miraculous results.

As a result, Commander Tada Jun agreed to this battle plan and ordered Major General Hattori Naotomi, commander of the 21st Brigade directly under the North China Front, to form an observation group and go to the First Army to observe the special operation.

If this special operation can be successful, then Tian Jun will promote the special operation and innovate tactics throughout the North China Front.