Chapter 250 Spring is here for the Yamamoto Special Forces
"The wing commanders and brigade commanders stationed on the front line really agreed with Colonel Yamamoto to select team members from them to supplement the special agent team?" Yoshio Shinozuka was a little unconvinced and looked at the chief of staff with doubts on his face and asked back.
You know, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the special agent team, the team members selected by Colonel Yamamoto every time are veterans and elites in the military, including some low-level officers with strong individual combat effectiveness.
These people are also the treasures and darlings of officers at all levels in the main force... They will definitely not be sent out unless absolutely necessary.
The chief of staff said confidently: "Commander, please rest assured that everything I just said is true!"
"During this period of time on the front line, the special agent team cooperated with the main force to win several great victories!"
"They took a preemptive strike and destroyed the headquarters of the Jinsui Army at all levels, leaving them leaderless and in chaos. The main force took the opportunity to launch an attack and defeated the opponent at a very small cost!"
"Those wing captains and brigade commanders all experienced the benefits of cooperating with the special agent team, and then they agreed to the special agent team selecting team members from them!"
"When the special agent team gets stronger and stronger, we can cooperate with them to fight larger-scale battles."
"But in order not to affect the combat effectiveness of the main force, the wing commanders and brigade commanders also made a request!"
"Colonel Yamamoto can only choose commanders and ordinary soldiers from them. Each infantry brigade can only choose ten people at most!"
The more Yoshio Shinozuka listened, the happier he became, and he said with a happy face: "Since those brigade commanders and commanders are so optimistic about the special agent team, I can't refute their good intentions!"
"Contact Colonel Yamamoto immediately. Starting today, the military department agrees that they will select additional members from the main force, but they can only select Captain Cao and ordinary soldiers. Each infantry group is limited to ten people..."
"The military decided to double the total strength of the special agent team, and asked Colonel Yamamoto to fully replenish the special agent team within half a month, and immediately return to Taiyuan to accept new tasks..."
"The ammunition supply of the special agent team has also returned to the previous level!"
"They use a large number of automatic weapons, and their training methods are different from those of the main force. If they replenish ammunition supplies according to the standards of the main force, it will definitely affect their combat effectiveness."
Liujiazhuang is a village in southwest Shanxi less than two kilometers away from the front line, and wars often spread here.
In order to survive, the people in the village had already fled completely.
As soon as Colonel Yamamoto arrived at the front line, he chose this village as his base.
In order to quickly form combat effectiveness of the special agent team, in the past two months, whenever there was an opportunity, he took the special agent team to the Jinsui Army defense area for actual combat training.
The effect was very good. Not only did it cooperate with the main force to win more than a dozen battles, but it also trained a bunch of new recruits from the special agent team.
People die in wars, and the Secret Service is no exception.
With the addition of additional members, the special agent team that was in their early 100s now only has about 70 people left.
Although the overall combat effectiveness of the special agent team will not be affected for the time being, as long as the special agent team suffers casualties in future operations, there will be a shortage in the special agent team, which will affect the combat effectiveness of a certain assault team, and then affect the combat effectiveness of the entire special agent team.
Colonel Yamamoto is a military commander with a particularly long-term vision, otherwise he would not be fond of very advanced special operations.
In his eyes, if the special agent team wants to be invincible and unstoppable in future operations, it must have a sufficient number of supplementary members who can be replenished as needed to ensure that the special agent team is at full strength at all times.
But it’s not easy to find additional team members.
Without an order from the military headquarters, even if the frontline commander agrees, he can't pick a single soldier from their hands!
Like last time, we continued to select recruits from the front army to replenish the Shanxi garrison. Although we could select a sufficient number of supplementary members, their quality was too poor and it took a long time to train to meet the standard of supplementary members.
But I don’t have that much time to train them…
These problems have been bothering Colonel Yamamoto and prevented him from sleeping well for a long time!
Today is no exception. It's past one in the morning, and Colonel Yamamoto is still not sleepy at all. He is sitting on a chair thinking about the future of the special agent team.
"Sir, there's an urgent call from headquarters..." The operator's excited report suddenly sounded at the door, bringing Colonel Yamamoto back to reality.
"Come in!" Colonel Yamamoto looked forward to the order.
Since the secret service team left Taiyuan, the military headquarters has not sent any telegrams to itself for two months.
In the past two months, the special agent team has achieved a lot of results on the battlefield in southwestern Shanxi, and the commander's ears have been informed of what happened.
He especially hoped that the commander would give some preferential treatment to the special agent team for the sake of these results.
Suddenly he heard a telegram from the headquarters to him, and he was particularly looking forward to his prayers coming true.
The operator walked in and stared at the telegram in his hand, waiting for the next step.
"The military department agrees that we can select supplementary members from the main force in the future, but we can only select ordinary soldiers and commanders. Each infantry brigade is limited to ten people!"
"We have decided to double the number of members of the special agent team, with a total of 150 full-time members!"
"I will allow you to fully replenish the new special agent team within half a month and return to Taiyuan immediately to accept new tasks!"
"Our ammunition supply has also returned to the previous level, and the military department will directly replenish it for us..."
Colonel Yamamoto was frightened by this surprise. It took him a while to realize what he was doing. He grabbed the telegram from the operator's hand and became more and more happy as he read it...
I watched it twice in a row before putting it down...
"Hahaha... God is really helping me... Amaterasu is helping us!"
“Our decision to come to southwest Shanxi was so right!”
"As long as the special forces often win battles, our colleagues and the military will recognize us and support us... Our special operations will also gain support from more and more people!"
"Immediately notify all squad leaders to report to me!"
"Even if you fall asleep, you have to drag me out of bed!"
"Tonight is so exciting. With the order from the military department and the recognition and support of us from the commanders of the frontline units, we have no problem expanding the special agent team by two times!"
"We have limited time, so we must select additional team members immediately and fully replenish the special agent team as soon as possible!"
"I heard that the Eighth Route Army almost defeated Taiyuan in order to force the mopping up troops to retreat!"
"This is definitely a great shame for the Shanxi garrison... Based on my knowledge of the Commander, he will definitely send troops to retaliate against the Eighth Route Army that attacked Taiyuan!"
"Our next mission is likely to be related to this Eighth Route Army!"
"In dealing with the Eighth Route Army before, the special operations team lost consecutive battles and was almost disbanded by their superiors. Many people in the army felt that special operations were useless."
"The trip to southwestern Shanxi not only proved that our special tactics are effective, but also that we can use small and broad skills to cooperate with the main force on local battlefields to achieve maximum results at the minimum cost!"
"If the target of the special operations team's next operation is really the Eighth Route Army, we will also wash away our shame and prove to everyone that special operations are also useful on the Eighth Route Army!"
When Colonel Yamamoto began to plan to expand the army and select additional members, the 386th Brigade Headquarters also received the good news from Kong Jie at this moment.
"Brigadier... good news... great news!" Chief of Staff Zhou said with excitement before he even ran to the brigade commander.
"Kong Jie and the others successfully captured the Jinniushan blockade. The convoy transporting military equipment has passed through Jinniushan. They can enter the base area before dawn. Let us arrange our troops in advance to prepare for the response!"
"Great!" The brigade commander immediately relaxed his clenched fists, looking forward to the order.
"With these military equipment, our Eighth Route Army will be able to build the largest arsenal in Shanxi... In the future, we will also be able to use weapons and ammunition produced by our own people...
"Immediately report this good news to the headquarters and ask the head of the headquarters to arrange for the response troops!"
"Immediately contact the 771st and 772nd Regiments and ask them to hold back the two Japanese brigades returning to Jinniushan at all costs to prevent them from colliding with the convoy transporting military equipment!"
After giving the order, he asked the chief of staff: "Are the casualties suffered by Kong Jie and others serious...how many people are left in the three regiments..."
When this matter was mentioned, the smile on Chief Zhou's face suddenly disappeared.
Looking at the brigade commander, he replied seriously: "The loss was very heavy... almost losing combat effectiveness!"
"Excluding the cavalry and baggage troops... Kong Jie's independent regiment has more than 600 people left... Ding Wei's new regiment has more than 400 people left, and Li Yunlong's new second regiment has only about 400 people left!"
"Before the attack, the three regiments were equipped with more than ninety artillery pieces in total..."
"The battle is over, and the three regiments have less than twenty various artillery pieces left..."
"Seventy percent of the heavy machine gun was destroyed, and 60% of the crooked light machine gun was destroyed..."
"Even the rifle lost more than 50%..."
"The most irritating thing is that although they killed more than 3,000 Japanese, they only seized more than 1,300 rifles, 42 crooked guns, nine heavy machine guns, and one mortar..."
"All other weapons were destroyed in the battle!"
"Fortunately, they seized a lot of weapons and ammunition in Taiyuan and Jinzhong...otherwise we would have suffered a huge loss in this battle!"
The brigade commander was silent for a while before replying: "As long as we transport all the military equipment they captured from Taiyuan back to the base... we can make it worthwhile even if we use up all three regiments!"
"Although all three regiments are injured, the remaining few hundred people are all veterans and elites...With these backbones, plus the weapons and ammunition they snatched back from Taiyuan and Jinzhong, they can regain their combat effectiveness in half a year at most.
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Chief of Staff Zhou was relieved after hearing the solemn expression on his face.
Watching the brigade commander continue to report: "Kong Jie also asked in the telegram where the three regiments will be stationed next?"
"There is no way back to the old base area. If the headquarters has determined their new base area...when the baggage troops and cavalry troops escort the military equipment back to the base area smoothly, they will go directly to their new defense area to train, recruit troops and restore their combat effectiveness!"
The brigade commander looked at the map and replied: "The boss has already thought about the whereabouts of their three regiments..."
"They all go to northwestern Shanxi... We don't have our main force there yet, there are only some local troops and guerrillas... The headquarters decided to let them open up the situation..."
"In order to commend them, and also to allow them to gain a foothold in northwest Shanxi as soon as possible and establish the prestige of our Eighth Route Army, in addition to the two battalions promised to the Independent Regiment before, the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment cannot be left out!"
"I will send a telegram to the boss soon and try to get them to establish two battalions!"
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