At the headquarters of the Japanese First Army in Taiyuan, Yoshio Shinozuka put down the red phone in his hand and walked to the sand table and fell into deep thought.
The chief of staff stood aside and vaguely heard Neji Okamura's voice coming from the microphone. Then he thought of several key words Yoshio Shinozuka said in the conversation, and immediately realized that the commander had mentioned it to him before.
The big sweep is about to begin.
Looking at Yoshio Shinozuka, his eyes sparkled and he asked: "Your Excellency, Commander, have we already come up with a plan to wipe out the Eighth Route Army?"
"The Eighth Route Army active in the Taihang and Taiyue areas are all within the scope of the sweep." Shinozuka Yoshio nodded.
"Your Majesty the Commander highlighted the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army. Let us seize this opportunity to kill the 386th Brigade and completely clean up the security environment in Shanxi!"
"For this purpose, two infantry regiments have been specially mobilized from the front line to support us!"
The chief of staff was disappointed and replied: "There are only two infantry regiments, which is not enough!"
"Intelligence shows that the total number of troops in the 386th Brigade exceeds 20,000 people. Including other Eighth Route Army troops operating in the Taihang area, there are at least 60,000 to 70,000 people!"
"Two infantry regiments can't even catch a fraction of them, how can they sweep them away?"
Yoshio Shinozuka glared at the chief of staff and said: "As the front army headquarters, you have the ability to spread the beans into soldiers... There are only so many troops in North China, so it is good to be able to mobilize two regiments to support us!"
"We will deal with the remaining troops ourselves, but Your Excellency the Commander also has a request: the total strength of the mopping up troops must be more than twice that of the Eighth Route Army. Either we don't fight, or we must be sure of victory if we want to fight, and strive to annihilate Shanxi in one battle.
All the Eighth Route Army!"
"You immediately organize everyone to formulate specific troop deployment and mopping up plans!"
"In order to prevent the occupied areas from repeating the mistakes of the Yangquan raid, all counties and strongholds must have at least 30% of their troops stay at the garrison to prevent the Eighth Route Army from taking advantage of it!"
In a Japanese military garrison in the east of Taiyuan City, Yamamoto Kazuki sat blankly in his room, thinking about the future of the special agent team.
He returned to the station from the headquarters an hour ago in this state, neither seeing nor talking to anyone.
The only commando team captain left in the special agent team couldn't wait any longer. He opened the door and walked directly to Yamamoto Kazuki: "Captain, just tell us what the higher-ups are going to do with us. We can bear it, and we don't have to risk ourselves alone."
Locked in a room and suffer!"
Several officers from the special service team also came in together. The team leader who stayed in Taiyuan to train new team members immediately answered: "Captain... there are still thirty-six additional team members in the station..."
"Including the old team members you brought back, there are still fifty people in the special agent team. It's not that they don't have the ability to fight..."
"As long as we are given another chance on the summit, the special team will definitely be able to avenge our disgrace!"
Seeing his subordinates all looking at him with unyielding expressions, Yamamoto Kazuki seemed to really see hope and slowly regained his fighting spirit: "You are right, as long as the special agent team exists for one day, we will have a chance to avenge our past humiliation!
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"Although we lost the battle at Chenjiayu, the front army headquarters did not cancel the establishment of the special agent team and decided to give us one last chance."
"By eliminating the targets assigned to us by the headquarters, the special agent team can continue to exist, and it is possible to grow and promote special tactics throughout the entire front army!"
"If the task is not completed and the designated target is not eliminated, the special agent team will be disbanded immediately...our special tactics will also be completely buried."
For a group of subordinates, the punishment of the front army was definitely the best news they had received in several days.
If in an ordinary unit, the unit is defeated by the same enemy several times in a row and the unit is crippled several times, the leading officer will be demoted even if he is not sent to a military court.
They were prepared to be demoted and demoted, but they didn't expect that the final result would be to make meritorious deeds. This was a surprise.
The team leader who stayed in Taiyuan asked with excitement: "Who is our next raid target?"
"Two targets: the independent regiment of the 386th Brigade, and the new second regiment of the 386th Brigade!" Yamamoto Kazuki replied.
"I won't introduce the Independent Regiment in detail. Not only did they defeat us several times, they also successfully raided Yangquan and wiped out a large number of imperial troops. They have long been listed as a serious threat to the First Army and must be eliminated!"
"The New Second Regiment is a unit that has just emerged recently, and its combat effectiveness is also very strong..."
"Especially their leader Li Yunlong, who has severely damaged the imperial army many times!"
"Not only did Captain Sakata die in his hands... the observation group organized by the military was also eliminated by him, and he was also listed as a serious concern by the military!"
"The headquarters of the New Second Regiment has not been raided by the special agent team yet. When the special agent team regains its combat effectiveness, I plan to raid the headquarters of the New Second Regiment first and kill Li Yunlong...and then raid the headquarters of the Independent Regiment and kill Kong Jie!"
"Captain is wise!" The captain who stayed in Taiyuan flattered him while asking for a fight.
"I will go to the army now to select additional members. Do you think fifty is enough?"
"Don't worry!" Yamamoto Kazuki waved his hand to stop him.
"Then I want to say the second thing: Although the Front Army Headquarters asked us to make meritorious deeds, the First Army was very dissatisfied with our performance and was even disappointed!"
"They will no longer treat us as favorably as before, and our ammunition supplies will be provided to us according to ordinary army standards!"
"Replenishing members of the special agent team can only be selected from the recruits of the First Army. They can no longer go to the field army to select veterans as before!"
"Baga... How could they do this... The front army headquarters will not hold us responsible for the defeat and let us take the blame and meritorious service. Why should the First Army block us..." The team leader who was about to select team members became anxious when he heard this and endured.
He kept complaining.
"Captain, the gap between recruits and veterans is too big..."
"Veterans only need a few months of intensive training to replenish the Special Forces!"
"If we select a group of new recruits to come back for training... it will take at least half a year to replenish the special agent team..."
Another team leader added: "The training intensity of the special agent team is much greater than that of ordinary troops... Ammunition supplies are also consumed faster than ordinary troops!"
"If the military headquarters supplies us ammunition according to the standards of ordinary troops, it will definitely not be able to meet the training needs of the special agent team!"
"Shut up, everyone..." Yamamoto Kazuki shouted at the right time to stop his subordinates from continuing to complain.
"The Yamamoto special agent team has no affiliation with the First Shanxi Army. The preferential treatment we received before was enough to give us face. This time we are sorry for them. The special agent team failed to report the failure of the Chenjiayu raid in time, resulting in the loss of the fourth mixed brigade.
The two infantry brigades, just based on this mistake, it's good that they didn't drive us out of Shanxi, what else do you want to do?"
"This matter is settled, no one can complain anymore!"
"Then how will we supply ammunition in the future?" the team leader asked, lowering his head.
"Find a way to solve it yourself!" Yamamoto Kazuki said.
"The Eighth Route Army does not have any ammunition supplies, but it is still developing its weapons under our noses... We just don't have enough ammunition supplies, it's not that we don't have any, and we can definitely solve it!"
"There is still a lot of ammunition left over from the ammunition supplies that the military department provided to us before. It should be able to last for a long time..."
"I will definitely solve the problem of ammunition supply for the special forces before it runs out!"
"What everyone needs to do in the future is to strengthen training so that the special agent team can regain its combat effectiveness as soon as possible!"
"We will go to the new recruit unit to recruit people in a moment... we will directly expand the special agent team to a hundred people without adding more troops!"
At the independent regiment station, Huang Yu was leading the assault company to conduct cross-country training with heavy loads, but the effect was very poor.
In the blocking battle on the back mountain of Chenjiayu Island, the assault company severely damaged the Yamamoto special agent team, and at the same time, it also lost more than 20 soldiers.
After the soldiers from the new recruit company of the guard camp were replenished, Huang Yu clearly felt the gap between them and the veterans of the assault company.
When the assault company was still an assault platoon, Huang Yu paid special attention to long-distance assault training...
There is a five-kilometer cross-country training almost every day, and a 20-kilometer long-distance emergency march every ten days...
Over the past few months, five-kilometer cross-country training with heavy loads has become a daily routine for veterans of the assault company...
After more than half an hour, except for a little shortness of breath, my face was not red at all.
The two dozen recruits had obviously never experienced this kind of training. They started gasping for air after running less than two kilometers carrying weapons and ammunition...
"The troops stop advancing!" Huang Yu ordered with a frown.
He walked straight up to a few recruits and asked, "Have you ever had this kind of long-distance march training before?"
"No..." a recruit shook his head and replied.
"Except for carrying out missions, I basically never leave the military camp..."
"Then what do you usually train in the military camp?" Huang Yu frowned more and more and continued to ask.
"Report to the company commander: In the recruit company, we have conducted gun training, formation training, live ammunition training, bomb delivery training... and also practiced bayonet fighting..." Another recruit stood up and reported!
Huang Yu nodded and called Zhong Chengjun over directly: "Old Zhong, you specially select these recruits for long-distance marching training!"
"They must be allowed to catch up with the veterans in the company within a month..."
"This task is very important and there is no room for compromise..."
"If you can't do it, they will all be returned to the recruit company in one month!"
Seeing Zhong Chengjun hesitate to ask the reason, Huang Yu decisively raised his hand to stop him: "Don't ask the reason yet, I won't tell you if you ask. After more than a month, you will naturally know the reason why I did this. I promise
Then all the soldiers will come and thank me!"
"You lead the troops to continue training. I'm going to the regiment headquarters."
At the Independent Regiment Headquarters, the boss had only been gone for two days, and Kong Jie locked himself in his room whenever he had free time, not seeing anyone.
Huang Yu knew that he was studying how the independent regiment could complete the mission of raiding Jinzhong at the minimum cost. As long as it was not a big deal, he would not disturb him, but today was different.
When we arrived at the regiment headquarters, we went straight to Kong Jie's room.
Li Wensheng knew something was wrong as soon as he saw Huang Yu's expression and quickly followed him.
"Regiment commander, chief of staff... I found out that we missed something during our troop training!" Huang Yu walked up to Kong Jie and spoke frankly.
Kong Jie immediately looked away from the map.
Seeing that Huang Yu's face was very serious, he also realized the seriousness of the problem and quickly asked: "What's missing?"
"Almost no troops have practiced long-distance marching..." Huang Yu replied.
"Isn't it just marching? What's so good about this!" Kong Jie said in a false alarm.
"Our soldiers are all ordinary people. They walk on mountain roads every day... they can march dozens of miles without any training... Xiao Huang, are you too worried?"
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