Two hundred and forty-eight chapters candle dragon - the first stage (2)
Jun Tada came to the war room. The place was already in full swing, and the air was filled with an anxious atmosphere. On the huge Shanxi map hanging on the wall, dense blue lines and crossed red dots appeared.
The clear Eighth Route Army offensive route and the demolished strongholds.
Tada Jun swallowed his saliva, waved and shouted, "Everyone, calm down, don't panic, let the leaders of each division come to my place for a meeting immediately. Also, where is Yoshiko Kawashima? Where is she? Why are we doing such a big operation of the Eighth Route Army?
Didn’t the Imperial Army hear anything?”
Takeda Yixiong lowered his head and said, "Mr. Jin went to Yan Xishan and hasn't come back yet. Now there are Eighth Route Army troops everywhere outside. I'm afraid they are blocked somewhere."
"Baga, useless thing. Takeda-kun, you have been learning intelligence from her recently. You should immediately take over her work and find out how many Eighth Route Army troops are in action. In addition, calculate the losses of our army." Tada Shun.
He waved his hand and said, "How many hours has the Eighth Route Army been in action?"
Takeda Takeo looked at the clock on the wall and said, "It's been three hours, it started at midnight."
Jun Tada frowned and said, "The imperial army is now scattered in various counties and strongholds. We can only figure out the situation after dawn. We order the troops in each county and stronghold to defend and not to fight casually. We are waiting for orders from the military headquarters.
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Takeda Takeo saluted "Yes!!"
——Wuxiang County
Xiang Shouzhi looked at the assembled troops and asked, "It seems that everyone has completed their mission. What are the results of each troop?"
A battalion commander first said, "Four of our battalion died, seven were seriously injured, and 12 were slightly injured."
Another battalion commander said, "Eight people from our battalion died, six were seriously injured, and 11 were slightly injured."
Xiang Shouzhi nodded and said, "Fortunately, the sacrifices are not big, but don't be proud. We have defeated most of the puppet troops in the stronghold, and most of the real Japs are still hiding in the city. Captain Li, how are the Japs' actions?"
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Captain Li was the first to say, "The Japs in the county haven't come out yet, but the Japs in several towns started moving, but they all retreated halfway. The little Japs are very alert."
A battalion commander said, "Yes, Commander, it seems that the Japanese know that we will ambush us halfway, and they seem to be preparing to wait for dawn."
Xiang Shouzhi hummed, "There is no one to save them at dawn. According to the plan, if the mountain is not mine, I will be the mountain. He immediately ordered the troops to disperse and move in company units. The big gun towers on the road have been knocked down."
, then go and attack the small gun towers and strongholds. In addition, the first battalion will go with me to attack Jianzhang Town! The county brigade will organize the villagers to clean up the battlefield, and finally the county brigade will take people to the homes of those traitors to eliminate traitors. Start taking action!!"
Captain Li smiled and said, "Don't worry, the villagers are very enthusiastic. Knowing that they have to settle accounts with those traitors and devils this time, they are holding back their energy. Commander Xiang, just be optimistic."
——Pingyao County
A winding railway stretches far into the distance on the land of Pingyao County. A coal train makes a clanging noise on the railway. Several Japanese soldiers stand on the carriage blowing the cold wind and talking.
Suddenly, the Japanese soldiers felt a shock all over, and a huge force threw them into the air. The last scene in their eyes was that the train rushed off the track, and the smoking locomotive fell into the dirt.
, tilted to one side, and then the land continued to enlarge, and I can’t remember anything after that.
The sober Japanese soldiers were horrified to find that countless figures appeared on both sides of the railway. Some of these people were wearing civilian clothes, and some were wearing the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army. A Japanese soldier swallowed his saliva, raised his gun and was about to shoot, but was not stopped.
A bullet flew from nowhere and knocked him to the ground.
"Comrades and fellow villagers, kill all the Japanese, burn the coal, and take away the railways. Move quickly!" A female officer waved and shouted, and hundreds of people and the Eighth Route Army immediately began to take action, all in uniform.
Armed with catalpas, sticks, ropes and other tools, under the light of torches and darkness, the rails were dug out section by section and pried up. The dug rails were quickly tied up with ropes by the militiamen, and then moved on
The rubber-tyred cart that had been prepared long ago was then pushed by the militiamen to the distance.
And for the sake of future recovery, the militiamen did not even give up the sleepers. When the sun hit the earth, there was only a road paved with stones, without any trace of a railway.
Not only in Shanxi, but also in Hebei, Shandong, Suiyuan, and Chahar, as long as there are railways, you can see such scenes everywhere. However, Shanxi will put away the sleepers, while other places will pile them up.
They gathered them together and burned them. The rails that were convenient were transported away. The rails that were inconvenient were burned on the fire, broken, and thrown into the mountains and rivers. Anyway, they were not allowed to be quickly repaired by the Japanese army.
The entire land of North China was in a state of chaos.
——Taiyuan
Tada Shun looked at the telegrams one after another. He crumpled the telegrams into a ball impatiently, rubbed them vigorously and threw them aside. Panting heavily, he looked at the people who were already seated and said, "Takeda-kun, please tell me the situation."
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Takeda Yixiong nodded and said, "Last night, the Eighth Route Army dispatched a large number of troops. As of half an hour ago, it had captured 527 artillery strongholds of our army, captured 37 towns, and destroyed 136 railways.
, forty-six bridges and fourteen mining areas. As for other power lines and Baojia villages, countless more were damaged. Our army has suffered more than 10,000 casualties, of course, more than half of them were from North China... Oh,
No, it should be called the Imperial Alliance Army now."
Jun Tada rubbed his brows and said, "The situation is not just that. I just got the news from the direction of Peiping. There are a large number of guerrillas launching attacks in Hebei, Shandong, Suiyuan, and Chahar. Their goals are the same as those here in Shanxi."
, it’s all railways, highways and infrastructure, and the whole of North China has become a mess.”
The newly appointed commander of the 20th Division, Ushijima Minoru, slapped the table and said, "Your Excellency, Commander, please immediately order troops from all regions to go to war and capture these guerrillas. As long as the main force of the Imperial Army goes to fight, these guerrillas who only dare to make sneak attacks at night will
The Eighth Route Army will easily crush our army to death."
The liaison officer of the 108th Division next to him also said excitedly, "Yes, these Eighth Route Army just relied on sneak attacks on our small strongholds and used human sea tactics to win. As long as the main forces from various places attack, they will definitely be defeated like ice and snow."
The Chief of Staff of the Third Army, Sadao Yoshimoto, nodded and said, "The General Staff also planned this. First, we will dispatch the main force along the railways and highways to clear out the enemies along the lines of communication, and then carry out encirclement and suppression by area."
Seeing that the generals below were all excited to fight, Takeda Yixiong rolled his eyes and said sternly, "Your Excellency, Commander, I disagree!"
Ushijima Minoru narrowed his eyes and pointed at Takeda Takeo and shouted, "Here are the leaders and spokespersons of each division. What qualifications do you, a small lieutenant general and staff officer, have to speak nonsense here!"
Tada Jun waved his hand and said, "I called him here. Everyone, this Takeda-kun is Ishihara Wanji's disciple. He is praised by Ishihara-kun as a genius of the world. Let us listen to his opinions. Takeda-kun, tell me."
Ushijima Minoru snorted coldly. Although Ishihara Wanji was squeezed out, his title of Ishihara's Wisdom still made Ushijima Minoru restrain himself a little.
Takeda Takeda glanced at Tada Shun gratefully and said, "Everyone, the Eighth Route Army's operation this time is extremely determined and effective. The purpose seems to be very simple. It is to take refuge and attack our army's scattered strongholds. But is it really that simple?
?Now our army's small strongholds have either withdrawn their troops or been attacked by the Eighth Route Army. Such results are not at all what we want for such a large-scale operation, so I judge that their next step must be to prepare to attack various counties.
, at least some county towns must be recovered. Have you noticed the battle report? This time the Eighth Route Army has a large amount of explosives in its hands. Some troops also have a special artillery that can easily blow up our bunkers. It can be seen that the Eighth Route Army must have obtained a large amount of explosives.
Only with the help of the Soviet Union can we dare to be so confident."
Seeing Shun Tada who kept nodding, Takeda Takeo continued, "Once our army's troops in various counties begin to attack, the Eighth Route Army will definitely use their intelligence advantage to attack our army's county strongholds. By then, I'm afraid our army will lose more than the gain."
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Ushijima Minoru hummed, "Children who have never experienced a battlefield will take it for granted. Do you think a county guarded by the imperial army is so easy to defeat? Each of our counties has hundreds of imperial troops and more imperial alliance troops."
, the Eighth Route Army will definitely not be defeated without paying the price of thousands of people. How many people do they have? According to you, can we just be trapped in various cities and be blocked by a group of guerrillas without being able to get out?"
Takeda Takeda shook his head and said, "Gentlemen, all battles should have a purpose. The purpose of this large-scale attack by the Eighth Route Army is to break the attack. So why can't we use their ideas and turn against the guests?"
Tada Shun asked with interest, "What does Takeda-kun mean?"
Takeda Takeo said, "Even if our army attacks now, those guerrillas will just scatter like birds and beasts, and there is no way to encircle and annihilate them. Our troops cannot be stationed in the wild for a long time. As soon as we return to the city, these guerrillas will pop up again. And now I
Most of the small strongholds outside the army have been lost. In this case, why not simply use these strongholds as bait to completely expose the main force of the Eighth Route Army. Then our army relies on big cities as points and various units as ropes to besiege them from the outside inward.
The Eighth Route Army rushes in the direction we want, and finally encircles and annihilates them. Although we will have some losses in the early stage, as long as the main force of the Eighth Route Army is completely annihilated, these losses are completely acceptable, and we can also promote to the outside world that these are our troops.
One of the strategies, what do you generals think?"
Ushijima Minoru slowly lowered his head after hearing this, and the others also began to think about it. If these nasty Eighth Route Army troops could really be wiped out, it wouldn't matter even if they lost some now.
Shun Tada pointed to the map and asked, "How do we use it as a point? How do we use it as a line?"
Takeda Yixiong stepped forward and said, "According to the intelligence, we found that Yan Xishan's Jinsui Army did not move, and several counties close to them were not attacked. It can be seen that the Eighth Route Army and the Jinsui Army did not cooperate closely this time. We can use it first
Interests stabilize the Jinsui Army. Of course, we cannot completely relax. Then we will go from Linfen, Jincheng, Changzhi to the north, Datong, Shuozhou to the south, and Yangyuan to the west. We will take advantage of our army's air force superiority and only pursue large forces.
Abandon the small force and sweep the main force of the Eighth Route Army to the plains of Fenyang, Xiaoyi, Jiexiu, and Pingyao. This is backed by the Luliang Mountains, the rear area of the Eighth Route Army. Even if the Eighth Route Army retreats here, it will not think that it has reached death. Then I
The army used cavalry and mechanized troops to penetrate into the Luliang Mountains to cut off the Eighth Route Army's retreat. It concentrated the main force of at least 50,000 people from the three divisions and the Royal Association Army of no less than this number to encircle and annihilate it at the foot of the Luliang Mountains. Then all units returned to mop up the troops.
The small force that escaped finally appeased the whole of Shanxi."
Ushijima Minoru stood up and drew a map and said, "Do you know that these places are mountainous and the terrain is dangerous. If the guerrillas get in, we won't be able to find them at all. How to force these guerrillas out and sweep them to the place you drew?"
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Takeda Takeda smiled and said, "The biggest weakness of the Eighth Route Army is that it has no air force, that is, it has no eyes. Your Excellency, Commander, there is no war in the south now. Please apply to the military department to mobilize the main force of the air force to our Shanxi Province and use the eyes of the aircraft to direct our army to attack.
It is January now, and the leaves in most places have withered. As long as there are planes watching above, the Eighth Route Army will not be able to escape."
Tada Shun took a breath and said, "Are you going to use all aircraft as reconnaissance aircraft? But you can do this during the day, but what about at night?"
Takeda Yixiong said with a smile, "Use our cavalry to bite them, just like the Mongols back then. We don't need cavalry to fight them. We just need to know their positions. In addition, in order to pursue quickly, our army must abandon all heavy artillery."
and equipment that is inconvenient to move, otherwise, they will only be left far behind by the Eighth Route Army who only wear clothes and hold a rifle. Finally, we need to prepare a lot of food supplies in each county and build field airports in various places to facilitate our army's rapid operations.
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"This is a huge gamble!!" Shun Tada said with admiration, "Giving up so many strongholds and troops to seek greater results. Does anyone have any opinions on this strategy?"
Ushijima Minoru shook his head and said, "I'm afraid Takeda-kun's teacher is not Ishihara Wanji, but Itagaki Seishiro. This kind of tactics is indeed much better than a simple counterattack. I have no objection."
Yoshimoto Teiichi sighed and said, "This tactic is indeed feasible. It targets the weaknesses of the Eighth Route Army. Moreover, during the final encirclement and annihilation, this preset battlefield is very close to Taiyuan. We can mobilize heavy artillery to participate in the battle, and the winning rate is very high."
Ah, and the first step of this strategy is what we said at the beginning, fighting and dredging along the traffic lines, which is not contradictory, I think it can be done."
Shun Tada glanced at Takeda Takeo with admiration and said, "Then immediately simulate the combat plan and order the troops in each county to prepare food supplies. When the Eighth Route Army is tired, we will deal with them after we are ready!!"