607 How ironic Yamamoto can be angry even if he dies
Until June 23.
The Japanese army's attempted iron gun mopping up tactics failed miserably. Pursued by the Eighth Route Army troops, the mopping up troops from all sides finally broke out of the quagmire and retreated back to the heavily defended county towns and important towns.
The Japanese army suffered heavy losses this time.
The battlefield observation group, including Major General Hattori Naoomi, and more than a hundred officers were wiped out.
Shortly after the Japanese mopping up troops withdrew to the county town.
The Japanese intelligence department finally confirmed that the Yamamoto special agent team was covered by the firepower of the Eighth Route Army during the sneak attack on Chenjiayu, and all of them were killed.
Upon learning of the death of his beloved general Yamamoto, Yoshio Shinozuka closed his eyes with some sadness.
What then welled up from the bottom of his heart was undying anger towards the Eighth Route Army troops, especially the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment.
In addition, the Independent Regiment took advantage of the main force of the Japanese army to raid the Taihang base area, infiltrated into major Japanese counties, villages and towns, and successfully beheaded more than 200 military officers.
The heavily guarded counties, villages and towns still could not protect the lives of Japanese and puppet army officers.
This infiltration of the Independent Regiment made the Japanese and puppet army officers in the surrounding counties, villages and towns panic.
The sickle of death seems to be hanging over their heads at all times.
It seems like it might be cut down at any time.
The Independent Regiment's beheading operation this time, in terms of each beheading target, is fundamentally unacceptable.
Sometimes they only target some officers at the grassroots level of the Japanese and puppet troops.
However, the series of vicious effects brought about by the successful beheading operation were unexpected by the Japanese army.
Because the assault company beheaded Japanese and puppet security officers in surrounding counties, villages and towns.
This resulted in the sudden shortage of grassroots security officers in many surrounding counties, villages and towns.
Then the security of various counties, villages and towns, which were leaderless, began to experience considerable turmoil.
Anti-Japanese sentiment is rising among the people in many counties, villages and towns.
Some brave people even privately posted some anti-Japanese leaflets in the streets and alleys.
The Japanese and puppet troops had a headache, but they could not find the culprit, so they could only send soldiers to scrape off those dog-skin plasters on the streets every day.
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Taiyuan City.
At the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army in Shanxi, Yoshio Shinozuka held a military meeting of the officers of the First Army.
The theme of the meeting revolved around issues such as "Changes in the strength of the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Base Area" and "How to carry out subsequent raids on the Eighth Route Army Base Area?"
Not long ago, the commander of the Ninth Brigade who participated in the iron barrel sweep was the first to say:
"Your Excellency, Commander, the Eighth Route Army troops in the Taihang Base Area have quietly developed a lot in terms of equipment."
"In this Tiegun raid, our army seriously underestimated the sophisticated equipment of the Eighth Route Army due to deficiencies in intelligence collection, and the troops suffered heavy losses."
"I believe that the changes in the equipment of the Eighth Route Army are no longer as backward as in the past according to our intelligence collection. The equipment is backward and ammunition is scarce. Follow-up raids should adjust our army's offensive strategy accordingly."
"And collect effective and accurate information about the Eighth Route Army in advance."
"If we don't have this information and fight the Eighth Route Army in areas they are best at and familiar with, we will probably suffer big losses."
The commander of the Fourth Brigade on the side felt the same way: "Your Excellency, Commander, I believe that if we are not fully prepared and determined to fight a decisive battle, we can no longer rush into the Eighth Route Army's base area."
"Today's Eighth Route Army troops in the Taihang area are far from the beggar troops we remembered."
"It's not like we can bring a few artillery pieces and send out a large group at random to make them run all over the mountain!"
The two brigade leaders spoke one after another, what a negative mood!
The arrogance that filled the faces of the so-called imperial warriors in the past is gone now.
Many Japanese officers lowered their heads silently, acquiescing to the words of the leaders of the 4th and 9th Brigades.
Shinozuka Yoshio suppressed his anger and unwillingness, but the facts were just as the two brigade commanders in front of him said.
Chief of Staff Kitagawa Aushi helped: "General, the National Army once proposed that in order to resist foreign aggression, we must first pacify the interior. Now we are facing the Eighth Route Army, and we have the same intention."
"As the Eighth Route Army's equipment develops and its strength increases, we cannot rashly raid the Eighth Route Army's base areas. We must strictly control the areas under our control, guard against the continued expansion of the Eighth Route Army's base areas, and at the same time rectify public security and accumulate strength."
"After the internal stability is stabilized and sufficient strength has been accumulated, a decisive sweep will be carried out to eliminate the effective forces of the Eighth Route Army on all sides in one fell swoop."
After hearing this, Yoshio Shinozuka nodded slowly, and that was all he could do now.
This time, the Tiegun raids also included the deaths of observation groups and special agents, as well as the security officers in the city.
On the one hand, Yoshio Shinozuka's First Army must continue to maintain law and order in various occupied areas.
On the one hand, we have to beware of the Jinsui Army and the Central Army that may come back at any time.
There is currently not enough strength to deal with the Eighth Route Army troops.
As the two previous Japs Brigade leaders said, the First Army will probably switch from offense to defense.
The Japanese army was unable to carry out raids on the Eighth Route Army base areas.
Will strictly control the counties, villages and towns under its control.
In addition, the Japanese army has launched a plan to encroach on the Eighth Route Army villages in the past few months.
Because the armed workers' teams are everywhere behind the Eighth Route enemy lines.
Because the Eighth Route Army implemented seven points of politics and three points of military affairs.
Coupled with the many victories achieved by the Eighth Route Army troops in military operations, anti-Japanese sentiment rose.
The puppet soldiers and traitors affiliated with the Japanese army were also the two factions who easily defected. They often had different appearances and secretly worked for the Eighth Route Army.
……
After the series of anti-cannibalization campaigns carried out by the Eighth Route Army, the cannibalization plan launched by the Japanese army basically went bankrupt.
At the meeting, Yoshio Shinozuka said helplessly:
In order to reduce the losses of troops in the cannibalization plan, the cannibalization plan will be suspended to stabilize the counties, villages and towns that the empire has occupied and ensure public security.
As for the raids on the Eighth Route Army's base areas and the cannibalization of villages, they were transformed into the final fig leaf - gathering some troops from time to time to carry out some rural clearing campaigns!
Then Yoshio Shinozuka discussed with a group of military officers and prepared to transfer a new group of security officers.
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To replace the vacancies in security positions in the county due to the Eighth Route Army's beheading operations.
Of course, the replacement will take time.
At the end of the meeting, an officer said:
"Your Excellency, Commander, this time the Eighth Route Army used small groups to take advantage of our army's raids and suddenly sneaked into counties and villages, causing a large number of casualties to our security officers."
"The infiltration tactics of this small group of elite troops of the Eighth Route Army deserve our attention!"
"Yeah——"
Other Japanese officers agreed.
Not long after, Commander Okamura Neiji, who was far away at the North China Expeditionary Force Headquarters, also said to Yoshio Shinozuka during the phone call:
"The enemy's sneak attacks by small groups of combat troops should be taken seriously by us, and we should be on guard and counterattack."
"County towns and important villages and towns belong to our imperial troops. Only those desolate mountainous areas are where rats hide."
"If the Eighth Route Army team can sneak into the county at any time, this will be a huge provocation and impact on our security, and will only make our soldiers and civilians feel panic and uneasiness."
"I remember that your First Army has a special agent team, which is particularly good at carrying out various infiltration, beheading, and sneak attack missions in small groups."
"This will be an effective means of sneak attacks against small units of the Eighth Route Army."
Finally, Okamura Neiji said that Shinozuka Yoshio has experience in forming a special agent team.
These experiences should be passed on to the various departments of the North China Front Army, so that these troops can try to form small elite combat units similar to special agents to deal with the guerrilla operations of the Eighth Route Army.
Yoshio Shinozuka was silent for a long time after hanging up the phone.
Chief of Staff Kitagawa Ayumi on the side can best understand the commander's complicated psychology at this moment.
"If Mr. Yamamoto is still alive and knows this order from the Commander-in-Chief, he will definitely be very happy!"
Beichuan didn't know what to say, so he could only comfort him like this.
Yoshio Shinozuka laughed at himself: "With Yamamoto-kun's pride, if he knew about this scene, I'm afraid he would never be able to sit still again."
"He worked hard to do all this during his lifetime. He wanted to promote the special tactics of the special agents throughout the army, and even innovate our army's old army combat tactics."
"But how could he have expected that the goal he tried to achieve countless times during his lifetime would be achieved after his death!"
"What's even more ironic is that it was actually a series of beheadings by the Eighth Route Army that made our army start to pay attention to the tactics of small combat units, and even set up combat teams similar to special agents in each army."
"Beichuan Army, is this really the end of the Japanese Empire?"
Beichuan Bu was speechless.
If such a result were known to Yamamoto, who was under the Nine Springs, he would probably be so angry that he would jump to pieces.
When the Japanese army in North China finally began to pay attention to small combat units such as special agents.
As the founder of Japan's special operations theory, Yamamoto has long been out of touch.