Peiping.

Iron Lion Alley.

The heavily guarded headquarters of the Japanese North China Front.

"The main force of the Eighth Route Army is already assembling towards Datong and Yangquan?"

Listening to Yamamoto Kazuki, who was in charge of the information, read the latest information, Okamura Ningji's expression turned grim, and his expression became a little solemn.

Judging from the intelligence from all sides, the Eighth Route Army will launch a fierce offensive against the North China Front in the near future.

"Hey."

Kazuki Yamamoto replied:

"It seems that the Eighth Route Army wants to use a pincer offensive to defeat the locust armies in Zhangjiakou and Shimen City, and then attack the Pingjin area."

Yamamoto Kazuki saw through the tactics of the Eighth Route Army's attack at a glance.

Although he saw through it, he didn't have a way to crack it.

The gap in strength between the two sides is too big to be made up for by ordinary tactics.

Even Okamura Ninji, who is known as a master tactician, has nothing to do, let alone him Kazuki Yamamoto.

"Then, the ambush troops of the 11th Division can be ordered to set off."

Okamura Ninji turned around, stared at the map for a while, and then said to Yamamoto Kazuki in a fierce tone:

"In this ambush, we must thwart the spirit of the Eighth Route Army!"

The divisions of the North China Front, the 1st Division, the 26th Division, the 40th Division, and the 56th Division, which were severely beaten by the Eighth Route Army, were all demoralized.

The current North China Front Army urgently needs a victory to boost the morale of the troops and break the myth of the invincibility of the Eighth Route Army.

In this way, the North China Front will have a chance of victory, or a less ugly defeat.

"Hey."

Kazuki Yamamoto quickly drafted a telegram and handed it to a staff officer to take to the communications room.

"Your Excellency, General."

"The headquarters of the secret services of the five provinces in North China sent a telegram saying that this year, Henan Province has suffered a major drought that is rare in a century, and the number of people affected by the disaster has reached 30 million."

Kazuki Yamamoto reported to Okamura Ninji again.

"It's a pity."

Okamura Ninji sighed:

"The plan to capture Yu Province this year cannot be implemented."

In the middle of the year, Okamura Ninji already knew about the severe drought in Henan Province this year, and formulated some operational plans to capture Henan Province, which were ready to be implemented at the end of the year.

Henan Province has suffered such a big disaster, and the national government will definitely not be able to provide so much food for disaster relief.

At this time, as long as the locust army takes out some food and hangs the lives of some victims, these victims will help the locust army to support the government army.

At that time, the locust army will definitely be able to capture Yu Province.

When the time comes, the North China Front will also be able to raise its eyebrows and be at the base camp and the locusts.

However, before this battle plan could be implemented, the Eighth Route Army launched a major counteroffensive in North China.

At this time, Okamura Ningji no longer had extra troops, war materials and food, and used them to attack Yu Province.

It is difficult to protect oneself, let alone take the initiative to attack.

"Let's find a way to block the attack of the Eighth Route Army first, if we can survive this attack, wait until next year to capture Yu Province."

Okamura Ninji said.

At this moment, the communications staff officer walked in quickly, bowed his head to Okamura Ninji and reported:

"General, just now a telegram has been sent from the base camp that the main force of the Kwantung Army and the main force of the 11th Army have completed the secret assembly, and they can reinforce the North China Front Army at any time."

"In addition, 2 B divisions have already boarded ships on the mainland and can set off at any time to land from Tianjin Port to support the North China Front."

Okamura Ningji, Seizo Arisue and Yamamoto Kazuki all looked slightly happy when they heard this.

"The base camp didn't reply to us for half a month, it turned out that it was ordered to secretly prepare for the Kwantung Army and the main forces of the 11th Army."

The chief of staff has three ways:

"Your Excellency, General."

"Regarding the reinforcement of the main force of the Eastern Army and the main force of the 11th Army, our North China Front can hold North China."

Okamura Ninji also nodded, and said happily: "It seems that His Majesty the Emperor and the base camp have not given up North China, nor have they given up our North China Front. ”

It was only the end of 1942, and the Japanese army had not yet reached the point of exhaustion.

However, the strength of the Japanese army in the Pacific Ocean was also very tight.

The base camp of the Japanese army thought that after the North China Campaign was fought and the Eighth Route Army was eliminated, the Japanese army would have to draw a large number of troops to go to the Pacific Theater.

It's just a group of farmers who have received some support from the outside.

Is it stronger than the U.S. military in the Pacific?

Okamura Ninji felt that he had done it again, and he was instantly full of confidence, and he walked quickly to the wall, looking at the map on the wall and thinking.

"At present, the North China Front Army has 14 divisions and regiments, mainly distributed in Zhangjiakou, Shimen City, Baoding and Pingjin areas."

"Order the main forces of the six divisions of the Locust Army in Zhangjiakou and Shimen City to hold out for three days and then feign defeat and retreat."

Okamura said without looking back.

Now that there are reinforcements from the 11th Army and the main forces of the Kwantung Army, Okamura Ninji is also ready to let go of his hands and feet.

He prepares for the next big game.

"Lure the enemy deeper, gather and annihilate him, Your Excellency, are you going to use the central flowering tactic?"

Yuseki's expression moved, and he quickly understood Okamura Ninji's thoughts.

Kazuki Yamamoto also rolled his eyes, and at the same time guessed Okamura's tactics.

"That's right!"

"As long as the main forces of the 11th Army and the main forces of the Kwantung Army arrive in time, we will be able to defeat at least one of the main forces of the Eighth Route Army and break the pincer offensive of the Eighth Route Army."

Okamura Ninji changed the gloom on his face before, and his expression and tone were full of confidence.

Yamamoto Kazuki thought carefully along Okamura Ninji's train of thought, and felt that there was a chance of winning this battle.

Although the Eighth Route Army is well equipped and has strong firepower, many soldiers of the Eighth Route Army are new recruits, and if they want to give full play to the firepower of those equipment, they must have experienced technical troops.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army on paper is very strong, but the actual combat effectiveness has to be discounted.

Although the Japanese army was relatively weak in terms of firepower, with the main forces of the Kwantung Army and the 11th Army, the total strength was at least four or five hundred thousand.

Moreover, it formed an encirclement posture against the Eighth Route Army, and when you look at it this way, the chances of victory are greatly reduced.

"Your Excellency, I think this tactic is feasible!"

Kazuki Yamamoto also says:

"However, the intelligence capabilities of the Eighth Route Army are very powerful, and if this tactic is to be successful, it must ensure that the intelligence is not leaked."

"Hmm." Okamura Ninji nodded, "There are Sue-kun and Yamamoto-kun." ”

There are Sue Seizo and Yamamoto Kazuki who heard the words and stood up.

Okamura Ningji's expression was grim, and he ordered: "Your staff department immediately formulates corresponding battle plans and emergency plans as soon as possible according to this tactic, this battle is related to the life and death of our North China Front, and the locust army can only win, not lose!" ”

"Hey."

Seizo and Kazuki Yamamoto bowed their heads in unison, then turned to leave.

……

Shimen City.

Japanese command.

"Report to the commander of the division, just now the commander of the North China Front, General Okamura Ninji, sent a telegram!"

A communications staff officer walked in quickly and reported to the commander of the 11th Division, Lieutenant General Takashi Takamori.

"Telegraph me."

Takashi Takashi took the telegram from the communications staff officer and read it.

This telegram was drafted by Kazuki Yamamoto and signed by Ninji Okamura ordering the ambush troops to set off.

"Order the 12th Infantry Wing and the Locust Army guerrillas to set off tonight."

Takashi looked at the communications staff officer and gave the battle order in an indifferent tone.

At present, the ambush plan and emergency plan of the 11th Division have been formulated.

The 12th Infantry Wing, the most elite of the 11th Division, was dispatched to take a detour from Pingshan County under the cover of the Japanese guerrillas, and then went to Longwangluo at more than ten highways east of Niangzi Pass to ambush the army column of the Eighth Route Army.

The terrain of this dragon king is very convenient for ambushes.

The Eighth Route Army ambushed here twice, the first time was to ambush the Japanese army's military column transporting war materials, and was robbed of 1,000 tons of war materials.

The second time was when the Eighth Route Army ambushed a military column transporting troops at Longwangluo, resulting in the total annihilation of that military column.

Ying Sen Xiao plans to use his own way and govern himself to ambush the ranks of the Eighth Route Army in Longwangluo.

Whether it is an ambush to the Eighth Route Army's train transporting troops, or a train transporting war supplies, it can be eliminated.

Takashi thought to himself that if this ambush was successful, his ambush example would be written into the classic examples of the Imperial Army University for future generations of army academies to look up to and learn.

The ambush troops had to march at night and rest in concealment during the day, otherwise they might be discovered by the reconnaissance planes of the Eighth Route Army.

"Hey."

After receiving the order, the communications staff officer immediately turned around and left.

……

Yang Spring.

The new regiment, the front headquarters, Wang Dehou reported to Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang:

"Regiment commander, political commissar, the troops have all completed the assembly, and the vanguard of the 2 infantry battalions and 2 heavy artillery battalions have arrived in Jingcheng County."

Li Yunlong nodded when he heard this, and sighed in a tone of emotion: "It's still fast to transport by rail." ”

Zhengtai Road has long been repaired, and this time the new regiment was assembled, and almost all the troops were transported from Taiyuan by train.

In the past, in order to protect Zhengtai Road, the devils built a large number of strongholds and turrets on both sides of Zhengtai Road.

Now, the Eighth Route Army has dispatched a large number of militia and mobilized a large number of civilians to protect Zhengtai Road from being sabotaged by enemy elements.

Coupled with the fact that the main force of the 129th Division was stationed near the railway, Zhengtai Road was attacked only twice by enemy agents, and it was quickly repaired.

In this way, the 150,000 main forces of the new regiment can cross more than 100 kilometers to complete the assembly so quickly.

And.

The main forces that were assembled all maintained their full energy.

Before the battle began, in order to prevent the enemy from seizing the mountainous area east of Jingcheng County and west of Shimen City, he sent two infantry battalions and two heavy artillery battalions to arrive at Jingcheng County first, and assisted the troops of the Jizhong Military Region in defending their positions.

Although the combat effectiveness of the troops of the Jizhong Military Region is good, there is still a big gap between them and the Japanese army's A divisions.

If the devils seized that piece of mountainous land, then Li Yunlong's battle plan to encircle and annihilate the devils would be affected.

Zhao Gang said: "It is no wonder that the devils used to vigorously build the Baijin Railway, and spared no expense of a lot of manpower and financial resources to build a large number of fortifications on Tongpu Road and Zhengtai Road, and deploy a large number of troops. ”

Li Yunlong nodded, looked at Wang Dehou, and ordered with a grim expression: "According to the battle plan, order 25 infantry battalions to take the train to Niangzi Pass in batches, and then walk to the Shimen and Zhengding areas at the fastest speed, and together with the brother troops of the Jizhong Military Region, complete the encirclement of the devil!" ”

For this battle, Li Yunlong is full of confidence.

"Yes!"

Wang Dehou stepped forward and said.