The Independent Regiment spent ten days "secretly" transferring to Daqingshan and completing its deployment.
"Secret" mobilization may not be easy for the Japanese, but it couldn't be easier for the Eighth Route Army.
It's not that the people in the Eighth Route Army base area can keep secrets... In fact, there are many Japanese and puppet spies mixed among the people in the base area, so if the secret reaches the people, it will be almost impossible to hide it.
The reason why they can be mobilized "secretly" is that Eighth Route Army soldiers can disguise themselves as civilians.
However, it is not easy to pretend to be ordinary people, because the Eighth Route Army soldiers are all male soldiers and all of them are strong. In addition, there are so many people that such a group of people can't hide from the eyes of spies when they go on the road.
Li Yunlong thought of a way. He divided the army into ten sections, with two to three hundred people in each section, and then mixed them into the food transport team to transport food.
This way there will be no problem.
The reason is that most of the food transport teams were originally men... Transporting food was a physical job, especially when most of the Eighth Route Army's food transport team still pushed wheelbarrows to transport food, and then they had to cover hundreds of miles in one day. Without any ability, they would not be able to walk down.
The soldiers of the Independent Regiment were just fine pretending to be them, except that the wheelbarrow contained not food, but guns and ammunition.
During this period, Wang Xuexin had been paying attention to the trends of the Japanese.
To be precise, it is not Wang Xuexin who is paying attention, but the headquarters. The intelligence network is directed by the headquarters, and Wang Xuexin only gets information from the headquarters.
At this time, the reason why Wang Xuexin was concerned about the Japs' movements was because if they discovered the Eighth Route Army's plan, such as the mobilization of the independent regiment being discovered by Okamura Neiji, the Japs would definitely move their forces north.
But fortunately, all the information obtained from the chief showed that the Japanese were not aware of it.
Okamura Neiji did not notice it. His eyes were still fixed on Yuncheng, and he kept deducing on the sand table how to break through the Eighth Route Army's defense.
This is not to blame Okamura Neji, because this Yuncheng cake is so tempting.
What faced Neji Okamura was not only the key point of Yuncheng, but also a series of weaknesses such as three stores, granaries, and airports.
As long as any one of these weaknesses is breached by the Imperial Army, it is possible to repel the entire Eighth Route Army or even drive it back to the mountains to fight guerrillas.
At this time, Okamura Neji couldn't help but sigh in his heart: A year ago, the Imperial Army hoped that the Eighth Route Army would go out of the mountainous area and fight face-to-face with the Imperial Army. Now, the Imperial Army already hopes to drive the Eighth Route Army back.
It's mountainous.
However,
No matter how Okamura Neiji deduced or planned, he found that it seemed impossible to break through the Yuncheng defense line established by the Eighth Route Army.
"Why is this happening?" Okamura Neiji asked Kono Shinta: "Kono-san, are you saying that even if we reorganize mechanized troops or even train paratroopers, we will not be able to raid the Eighth Route Army's weaknesses?"
Kono Shinta thought for a while, then sighed reluctantly and replied: "Your Excellency, General, this is not a problem between mechanized troops and paratroopers."
"Then what's the problem?" Okamura Neji asked.
"The purpose of mechanized troops and paratroopers is to fight 'blitzkrieg'!" Shinta Kono said: "However, the Eighth Route Army also seems to know about 'blitzkrieg', and they are using 'blitzkrieg' to counter our 'blitzkrieg'!"
Then Okamura Neji understood.
It is indeed true that the Japanese have mechanized troops and so does the Eighth Route Army.
Even the mechanized troops of the Eighth Route Army are stronger than those of the Imperial Army... The Eighth Route Army is a mechanized force formed with half-track armored vehicles, but so far, the Empire can only be formed with shoulder straps.
Not to mention that the Type 95 light combat is not as good as the T26 of the Eighth Route Army, but attacking the Eighth Route Army's armored vehicles is basically asking for death.
As for the airborne troops... the Eighth Route Army is the defender. In principle, as long as the mechanized troops of the Eighth Route Army are large enough and happy, the airborne troops of the Imperial Army will die no matter where they jump.
Neji Okamura gritted his teeth and said: "So, it seems that we are going to introduce half-track armored vehicles!"
Kono Shinta hesitated for a moment, and then replied: "General, the key point is actually air supremacy... If we can seize air supremacy, we can use the air force to attack the enemy's mechanized troops, so that our army's mechanized troops can be used.
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This is actually a kind of "asymmetric warfare".
If the enemy and we are similar in all aspects, a stalemate will easily form.
But if one thing achieves an absolute advantage, it will develop in this way to form a comprehensive advantage.
However……
Okamura Neiji said distressedly: "Kono-kun, it's not like you don't know that the Eighth Route Army has x1. They can at least have air supremacy in their airspace!"
"I know!" Shinta Kono said: "So, General! Isn't what we want to introduce fighter engines? Or fighter-related technology? One day, if Hans's X1 is also successfully developed, it will be able to completely suppress the Eighth Route Army.
Got it!"
These words seemed to wake up Okamura Neji.
Shinta Kono is absolutely right. It is very difficult to import technology from Hans at this time, and the opportunity is very rare.
Of course, for such a rare opportunity, "good steel must be used wisely".
Therefore, instead of introducing half-track armored vehicles, it is better to introduce aircraft engines and their technology.
(Note: Historically, the Japanese did cooperate with Hans on aircraft engines, and the Japanese developed a subsequent improved version of the "Zero War")
You must know that Hans's aircraft is much stronger than the "Hawker 81" in the hands of the Eighth Route Army. At this time, Yingjiang's technical assistance was completely interrupted due to the war with the Empire, and the research and development of the Empire's fighter engines was basically at a standstill. If we can learn from Hans
Engine technology has thus improved and upgraded the "zero war", why not?
Thinking of this, Okamura Neji immediately nodded and said: "I will report your ideas to Tokyo immediately!"
In fact, there is no need for Okamura Neiji to report this matter at all, because Tokyo has gradually realized that the "zero war" they believe is invincible in the world may become passive due to various reasons.
Tokyo had thought that this situation would happen, but no one expected that it would happen so quickly, and it would mainly happen to the Eighth Route Army...
The Eighth Route Army used a batch of obviously backward "Hawker 81" fighters to defeat the Empire's "Zero War" again and again. Then one day, what if Yingjiang also learned the tactics of the Eighth Route Army and even equipped it with x1?
Is "zero war" about to withdraw from the stage of history?
If "Zero War" is eliminated, the empire will face the dilemma of having no available fighter planes.
At the same time, this also means that the empire is destined to fail in future wars, and it has no capital to negotiate with Eagle Sauce...
From the beginning to the end, the Japanese had an unrealistic fantasy in waging war against Yingjiang. They believed that after defeating Yingjiang several times, they would be able to force Yingjiang to the negotiating table to make peace with them, so the war with Yingjiang began.