Chapter 462: The Journey of Okamura Neji's Base (End)
"Village chief, didn't the art team come to our village a few days ago and tell us stories about international friends? Bethune, Kotnis, Ma Haide, etc. It is said that Chairman Mao has a very good relationship with them." The older boy
Said to the village chief.
The village chief waved his hand and said, "What do you know, Erlang? Well, I don't know if you are talking nonsense, but if we don't attack you now, doesn't it mean that we admit that you are not a bad Japanese? Okay, you go to the county seat to find him."
People from Guanghua Store, if you want to ask, go there and ask, our Eighth Route Army will not lie!"
After saying that, the village chief asked several people to look at Okamura Neiji and not allow him to enter the village, and then went back. No matter how Okamura Neiji yelled, he never looked back.
Neji Okamura had no choice but to leave with regret. When he got to the road, he looked at the village that was gradually becoming unclear and said, "A small village is so inaccessible... It is really a serious problem for us.
Come on, let’s go to the county town and take a look.”
Okamura Neiji came to the county seat, and his ID was checked again before entering the city. The city was still relatively prosperous. Okamura Neiji carefully observed the faces and walking postures of passers-by and found that they all looked good.
, the merchants were not afraid when they saw the patrolling Eighth Route Army, which meant that the people here lived a good life, and the Eighth Route Army had a good relationship with the local people. Okamura Neji felt more and more headaches.
At this moment, bursts of cheers came from a distance.
"The Eighth Route Army has left the city! The Eighth Route Army has left the city!!"
"Okay, I wonder if we are going to fight again?"
"Kill those little sons of bitches. I don't know which army they are from. Could my son be among them?"
"These are all military secrets! You can't ask, and you can't tell if you know. Who knows if there are traitors around us!"
When the surrounding people heard the cheers, they immediately took the initiative to separate the road and gave way to the incoming Eighth Route Army. Neji Okamura also hid aside and looked expectantly at the incoming troops.
Okamura Neiji is probably the only commander of the North China Front Army who actually faced the Eighth Route Army. This is a small unit, about three to four hundred people. Although the military uniforms are not very new, they are clean and neat, and the steps are neat and powerful. Although they are still
He did not see the combat capabilities of these Eighth Route Army, but judging from their military appearance, Okamura Neiji knew that this Eighth Route Army was completely different from the local armed forces and guerrillas he had encountered before. Only the Chongqing government's central direct line army
That’s why he has such a style.
Okamura Neiji continued to observe the weapons of the Eighth Route Army, and found that they were all firearms, and there were no longer the swords and spears he had seen in the photos before. Then he thought about the cold weapons in the hands of the self-defense men he saw in the villages.
Weapons, we understand that the Eighth Route Army must have concentrated their weapons.
Looking at the models, most of them were Japanese and German weapons. Okamura Neiji nodded. When he saw two mortars and grenade launchers, his face immediately fell and he counted again.
Counting machine guns, the firepower of this team of three to four hundred people is comparable to that of a squadron. If all the Eighth Route Army has such weapons and equipment, it is no wonder that it will be unable to conquer for a long time.
Just as Okamura Neji was carefully looking around the base area, a photo of him was passed to Onika in Nanjing.
"Is this Okamura Neji? He looks like a scholar." Onika looked at the photo and said.
"That's right. He really likes reading, especially Chinese classical literature." Yuan Shu nodded and said.
Gui Che took out another photo and placed it next to the photo given by Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu looked at it and said with a smile, "So you already have it..."
Onika shook his head and said, "I'm just checking. Okamura Neji is considered a figure. Japanese newspapers have reported a lot about him. So where is he now?"
Yuan Shu used chopsticks to dig into the wontons in his bowl, smiled and said, "I got a piece of news, I don't know whether it is true or not. When I was drinking with some staff officers, those staff members said that Okamura
When Neji arrives in the north, he will definitely sweep away the Eighth Route Army, and there is also news that Okamura Neji is preparing for this during this time."
Gui Che closed his eyes and thought for a while, as if he suddenly remembered something, and said to Yuan Shu, "I still have something to do, I'll leave first." He said and left as if there was something urgent.
Yuan Shu looked at Gui Che's back, shook his head and said, "White Arowana suit, if you are a gentleman, would Okamura Neiji really be so courageous?"
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"This is a photo urgently sent down from above. The base area is required to immediately check whether there is this person. Once found, he will be detained immediately. If he dares to resist, he is allowed to shoot!"
In a room, a person who looked like a commander was handing out a stack of paper. The captains in the room took a look at it. On it was a photo of a thin man, wearing glasses and wearing a Japanese military uniform.
"Hey... I think I've seen this person before," Captain He said strangely while holding this piece of paper.
The commander immediately stepped forward and said, "Old He, have you seen him before? This is a big fish, the commander of the North China Front!"
Captain He licked his lips and said uncertainly, "There is a bit of a resemblance between the eyebrows, wait a minute..."
Captain He took out a pen from his pocket and drew a circle of beard on the photo of Okamura Neji. Then he nodded and said, "Yes! That's the guy! Damn it, he turned out to be a big fish. I was really impressed.
He was deceived. This was a Japanese businessman from a Japanese caravan that came to our place for business last week. I remember his name was Ichiro Okamura. Since he was a newcomer, I specially asked someone to go to the Japanese Embassy to check.
But there is indeed such a person coming to us from Japan."
A fat captain next to him said with a bit of hatred, "This Japanese is a big Japanese. Of course he can ask those little Japanese to help him give false evidence. Lao He, Lao He, why are you so careless?"
Captain He also fell into self-blame and scratched his hair angrily. The commander next to him said, "Okay, don't be angry. If he is here to trade, then he has not gone deep into our base. Don't worry, Lao He didn't either."
I thought there would be such a big fish."
The commander said to Captain He, "Think quickly, are there any other details? Where might he be now?"
Captain He thought for a while and said, "He said very little, just watched, and then... By the way, he said he was going to harvest apples - Shandong!!"
The commander immediately rushed out, trotted all the way to the communication room and shouted, "Power up immediately. The target red heart has appeared in the Taihang Mountains. It may be in Shandong now. Repeat it again. It may be in Shandong now!"
By the time the Eighth Route Army in Shandong began to search for Okamura Neiji, Okamura Neiji was already on his way back to Peiping.
Yamashita Tomofumi, the chief of staff of the North China Front, finally waited for the arrival of Okamura Neji. He happily greeted him and said, "Okamura-kun, you are finally here. Where did you go without saying a word? I am worried to death!"
Okamura Neiji saluted Yamashita Fengwen and said, "The art of war says to know yourself and the enemy. I'm going to know the enemy. In this way, I won't see anyone else today. Please help me get all the records of the battle between us and the Eighth Route Army."
I want to know how we fought them. I’m also very curious about the Eighth Route Army’s tactics and tactics.”
Yamashita Fengwen shook his head and said, "This... I'm afraid it's a bit difficult."
Okamura Neji asked doubtfully, "Don't we have records?"
Yamashita Fengwen sighed and said, "If you want to strictly speaking, the Eighth Route Army includes those guerrillas. There are many guerrillas. We don't know if there is any shadow of the Eighth Route Army behind them. But even if we are sure that the other party is the Eighth Route Army, we
The North China Front has fought more than 6,000 battles with the Eighth Route Army guerrillas this year alone, so...if we want to keep all records, I'm afraid this room won't be enough."
Okamura Neji took a breath and asked, "More than six thousand times? How much have we lost?"
Yamashita Fengwen sighed, "There is still evidence that the opponent is the Eighth Route Army. These more than 6,000 battles included losses in Suiyuan. Our army lost more than 80,000 people."
"Eighty thousand??" Neji Okamura said in disbelief, "Is this the Imperial Army or the Imperial Alliance Army?"
Yamashita Fengwen lowered his head and said, "It's just the Imperial Army. The Imperial Association Army suffered greater losses. There are even no one in many places willing to participate in the maintenance meetings of our organization. Alas... In North China, except for a few big cities and transportation
In fact, the main road is basically no longer owned by our imperial army."
"Bah!" Neji Okamura snapped and said, "When I was in Central China, I always heard that the Eighth Route Army in North China was very powerful, but I never heard anything about it in the newspapers. Why is this? Could it be that someone blocked it?
Any news?"
Yamashita Fengfumi shook his head and said, "No... no one wants to report it. Our losses are all accumulated. More than 95% of battle casualties are about a dozen people. Such losses cannot be brought to the table at all."
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"But this kind of loss caused us to lose a battle loss figure that was not even reached in the Changsha Battle?" Okamura Neiji felt at this time what a big quagmire North China is. Yamashita Fengfumi took out a book from his back and said, "
General Okamura, if you really want to understand the Eighth Route Army, please read this book."
Okamura Neiji turned around and looked at it. It was a pamphlet with "On Protracted War" written on it. Okamura Neiji shook his head and said, "I also have this book, and mine is older than yours. You can read this."
Not many times."
Yamashita Fengfumi chuckled and said, "Isn't this a slightly newer one for Okamura-kun?"
Okamura Neiji asked again, "Also, I remember seeing in the battle report that you said that the North China Eighth Route Army has a large number of aircraft, tanks and heavy artillery units?"
Yamashita Fengwen stretched out his hand and said, "Please come with me."
The two walked for a while and came to a small room. Yamashita Fengwen motioned to the people around him to close the curtains, then opened the slide and said, "This is the information we have on the heavy weapons of the Eighth Route Army now. This is a photo of their aircraft. Because
Their planes all take off inside their interior, and our people can't go deep inside at all, so many of these photos were taken on the plane. You see, this is their fighter... This is their bomber, especially here,
You see, the lower part of their aircraft is equipped with these cannonball-like weapons. This weapon will fly out and attack our fighter planes just like real cannonballs. With just one shot of such a weapon, our fighter planes will be damaged, and the enemy's
aircraft, our army’s machine guns may hit them dozens of times, but nothing will happen.”
Okamura Neiji's face suddenly collapsed. He nodded and said, "The Eighth Route Army cannot have such a weapon on its own. It must be the Soviets...continue."
"This is their tank. Obviously, it is a modified version of the Czech LT-38 tank. They have nearly a hundred of them, all of which are concentrated in the hands of mechanized troops."
Okamura Neji nodded, indicating to continue.
Yamashita Fengwen shook his head and said, "The Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery unit is the most mysterious unit, especially their Howling Death heavy artillery. We have not found a trace of this heavy artillery until now. It should be their highest military secret."
Okamura Neiji thought for a while and said, "I remember we should have a senior spy in Taiyuan, right?"
Yamashita Fengwen nodded and said, "I did hear something about it, but it is said that that person only contacted General Doi, so we don't know."
Okamura Neiji hummed, "General Doihara is now the principal of the Military Academy. I'm going to give him a telegram. It's such a waste if such chess pieces are not used properly."
With that said, Okamura Neiji asked again, "So are all the technical arms of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi and Suiyuan?"
Yamashita Fengwen pointed to Yan'an on the map next to him and said, "There are still some that should be in their home base of Yan'an."
Okamura Neiji stood up and looked at the map and said, "Let me think about our subsequent strategy."
--late at night
Okamura Neiji sat in his chair, pondered for a long time, and slowly began to write. These were some of his recent thoughts and experiences about the Eighth Route Army. He wrote and wrote, revised and revised, and when the sky turned white,
He slowly put down his pen.
Neji Okamura looked at his work with satisfaction, took the phone next to him and said, "Yamashita-kun, come to my office, I wrote something, come and take a look."
Yamashita Hobumi hurried to Okamura Neji's office, holding a rice ball in his hand and said, "What's going on, Okamura-kun, you are so anxious."
Okamura Neiji handed him what he had written last night and said, "This is my plan, take a look."
Yamashita Fengfumi took it and read it, "North China Public Security and Appeasement Plan?" Yamashita Fengfumi glanced at Okamura Neji in surprise and said, "It's amazing, Okamura-kun, you've only been here a few days and you can write something like this."
It’s a strategy, I’m going to take a closer look.”
Then Yamashita Fengfumi looked at it at a glance. What he wrote in front of it was a description of the current situation of public security in North China. Yamashita Fengfumi found that Okamura Neji not only talked about the situation of the Eighth Route Army guerrillas, but also pointed out that the agriculture in Hebei, Shandong and other places had been affected by the war.
Affected by the epidemic, weather experts pointed out that the weather will gradually worsen in the next few years, and a severe drought is likely to occur, and the Eighth Route Army, which has a large number of troops, will inevitably fall into a food shortage situation.
At the same time, Okamura Ningji wrote that the North China Eighth Route Army has two financial resources, one is taxation, and the other is industry and commerce. Among them, salt and sugar are the most important. Salt and sugar have great benefits. Many people who supervise them are eventually corrupted by these benefits. Therefore,
We cannot rely on civilian supervision, but must rely on the army, and all captured salt and sugar will be equally divided between the army and the treasury to increase the strength of supervision.
Yamashita Fengfumi said to Okamura Neiji in admiration, "If this is really the case, maybe we can really ban the salt and sugar from going down the mountain in Taihang Mountain."
Okamura Neiji shook his head and said, "But I never understood where they got so much salt and sugar. Is there a large area of sugar cane fields in the Taihang Mountains?"
Yamashita Fengfumi also shook his head to express his incomprehension and continued reading. The following is the key military battle of the public security plan.
