Neji Okamura asked with some emotion: "Shinozuka-kun, although setting up a low-end version of the advance team will save a lot of money, can such an advance team be qualified for the tasks you mentioned?"

Yoshio Shinozuka had already conceived the style of the Advance Team, and he said truthfully at the moment: "As a low-end version of the special operations force, the Advance Team should reach the level of the Yamamoto Special Agent Team, easily penetrate into various bandit areas of the Eighth Route Army, and carry out indiscriminate attacks on them.

Reconnaissance at a blind spot is definitely impossible."

After a pause, Yoshio Shinozuka changed the subject and continued: "However, we can make up for it in other ways."

"For example, we can equip the advance team with translators and put them in Eighth Route Army uniforms, or if they are in civilian clothes, they can disguise themselves as the Eighth Route Army or guerrillas.

In this way, the advancing team can freely travel to various bandit areas, and the whereabouts of the Eighth Route Army will be invisible!"

"When necessary, the advance team can even carry out some atrocities against Chinese civilians in the name of the Eighth Route Army to vilify the Eighth Route Army.

In this way, it can not only lower the reputation of the Eighth Route Army, but also arouse the hatred of the Chinese civilians. It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone."

The interest on Okamura Neiji's face became more and more intense. This was a new idea. This shows that Shinozuka Yoshio's No. A combat plan is indeed not as simple as a simple encirclement and sweep with heavy troops, but there is something to it.

Shinozuka Yoshio was overjoyed when he saw this, and then continued to strike while the railway was hot: "As long as you give me one more division of troops, I can severely damage the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Bandit Area, or even annihilate them all!"

Okamura Neiji did not immediately make a promise to Shinozuka Yoshio. Instead, he patted the plan on the desk in front of him and said: "Shinozuka-kun, it is getting late today. You go back to the hotel to rest first. We will meet again tomorrow."

talk."

After a pause, Okamura Neiji continued: "I will read your plan for Operation Plan A carefully!"

"Hey!" Hearing this, Okamura Neiji finally took reassurance. He knew that Commander Okamura Neiji must have wanted to read his plan first, and then give him a reply. He immediately stood back.

Right, nod respectfully...

Time flew by and half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

After reading Yoshio Shinozuka's plan, Okamura Neji readily adopted his Operation Plan A and promised to send him two additional divisions.

After Yoshio Shinozuka returned to Taiyuan, he immediately used the Yamamoto Special Agent Team as a model to form a number of low-profile advancing teams.

During this period, Yoshio Shinozuka never received any news from Yamamoto's special agent team. At first, he only thought that Kazuki Yamamoto had temporarily shut down the radio station in order to complete the mission. After all, Kazuki Yamamoto had done such a thing more than once.

But after being unable to contact the Yamamoto special agent team for half a month, Yoshio Shinozuka finally realized something was wrong.

However, at this time, Shinozuka Yoshio no longer cared about it.

Although the Yamamoto special agent team can greatly increase the training speed of the advancing team, and during the sweep, it can also focus on raids on the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army at all levels.

But even if there is no Yamamoto special agent team, it will not affect the progress of Operation Plan A. …

…

The screen zooms to Majiapo.

Half a month has passed, and the arsenal of the Second Independent Regiment has produced more than 2,000 M1 Garand semi-automatic rifles and equipped each battalion.

With the upgrading of this batch of equipment, the combat effectiveness of the Second Independent Regiment will surely increase by more than one level.

In addition, 5,000 boxes of penicillin were also produced and clinical trials were conducted, and the results were surprisingly good.

In this way, the subsequent non-combat casualties of the Eighth Route Army will be greatly reduced.

At the same time, Zhang Riming and Yan Zhirou also returned to the World War II District Chief's Department.

Yan Zhirou immediately followed Wang Chengzhu's request and first made a detailed report on the military exploits of the Eighth Route Army, especially the Second Independent Regiment.

Then, he reported in detail the difficult conditions of the Eighth Route Army, including not having enough to eat, not having enough warm clothes to wear, etc.

With the sale of the newspaper, the reputation of the Eighth Route Army was once again enhanced. Countless patriots were moved and raised money and donations for the Eighth Route Army.

In addition, the news that the Eighth Route Army was severely damaged in the Hundred Regiments Battle also spread like wildfire...

Taiyuan.

Japanese First Army Headquarters.

After receiving this information, the new head of the Intelligence Section, Zuo Ikeda, immediately reported it to Yoshio Shinozuka.

Shinozuka Yoshio showed a suspicious expression on his face and asked: "Ikeda-kun, is the information reliable?"

Ikeda Zuo: "Information should be reliable."

"Should it be reliable?" Yoshio Shinozuka asked, with a hint of displeasure on his face.

"Hey!" Mr. Ikeda Zuo said loudly, "This information was learned by Yan Zhirou, the daughter of Yan Laoxi, during an interview with the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. Moreover, Yan Zhirou did not know the news at that time.

There was no publicity and even concealment.

It was reported by the intelligence personnel of the Imperial Army lurking in Yan Zhirou’s guard platoon, so it should be true.”

Chief of Staff Miyano Jun then echoed: "Your Majesty Commander, it seems that this information should be true. Although the combat effectiveness displayed by the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army in the Hundred Regiment Battle was extremely terrifying, it could not compete with the Imperial Army.

The imperial army was so badly damaged, how could they have no casualties?"

After a pause, Miyano Jun changed the subject and continued: "It is normal that they have casualties. On the contrary, if they do not suffer major casualties, this would be unreasonable."

The corners of Yoshio Shinozuka's mouth raised slightly, and he revealed a cruel fox-like smile, and said: "Hey! The 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army suffered more than 60% casualties in the Hundred Regiment Battle. It is definitely impossible to recover in a short time. This is really a

Perfect opportunity for a sweep!”

Miyano Jun: "Yes, Commander, your Operation Plan A can be successfully implemented. As long as the Imperial Army's 4th Division arrives in Taiyuan from the northeast, we can then launch a raid on the Taihang Bandit Area of ​​the Eighth Route Army.

"

"Moreover, the advance team has almost completed its training. It's time to send them to the Taihang bandit area to lead the charge and collect intelligence for the imperial army."

Yoshio Shinozuka nodded and said, "Miyano-kun, I'll leave this matter to you."

"Hiyi!"

Miyano-kun nodded heavily, then turned around and left, heading to the training camp of the advancing team.

…

It is worth mentioning that not only the Japanese army, but also the Chairman of the Standing Committee who was far away in the mountain city also received news that various units of the Eighth Route Army had suffered heavy losses in the Hundred Regiments War.

Although it was also China's national defense that was damaged, the Chairman felt a little relieved.

Because the pace of development displayed by the Eighth Route Army was so frightening, it had already made the Chairman feel a huge crisis.

Now, with the Eighth Route Army being severely damaged, his sense of crisis has finally weakened a lot.

Wang Chengzhu never dreamed that he established the War Deception Bureau originally just to deceive the Japanese, but he unintentionally deceived the Chairman of the Generalissimo.

I have to say, this is really an unexpected surprise.
Chapter completed!