Chapter 389 The Confused Japanese Army Please Subscribe
Regarding Xing Zhiguo's next battle plan, Zhou Weihan already had an idea.
Nowadays, the situation in the Tainan region has become clear, and it will be easy for the Pingshun area to be included in the territory of the Tainan Military Region.
Once the Pingshun area is occupied by the Tainan Military Region, the Japanese troops in Changzhi will be surrounded on three sides.
There are troops from the Taiyue Military Region of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest, and Tainan Military Region in the north and east. The Japanese army in the Changzhi area, and even the Japanese offensive on Zhongtiao Mountain in the future, will be suppressed.
In the west there was the Jin-Sui Army, and in the south there were a large number of national troops.
If the Kuomintang and the Communist Party can work together, taking advantage of the weak defense of the 41st Division in Changzhi, it might be possible to regain control of the Changzhi area.
Of course, all the above are just Zhou Weihan's ideas, and it is difficult to put them into action.
Nowadays, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have just experienced friction and have deep grievances. How can they put aside their past grudges?
In addition, if the Changzhi area were to be recaptured, the buffer zone between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party would be gone.
The words are divided into two parts.
The Japanese army invested the most force in the large-scale sweep of the Taihang base area. They were divided into three groups. The lower group was the 41st Division in the Tainan area, and the middle group was the 36th Division plus troops transferred from Yuncheng.
One part of the 37th Division swept through the hinterland of Taihang, and one part of the independent Fourth and Ninth Brigades went up the road, with a large number of puppet troops cooperating. The smallest number of Japanese troops on this road was aimed at the Taibei area.
As mentioned before, the Eighth Route Army headquarters also made targeted arrangements for the Japanese army's sweep. Except for the headquarters agencies, the other agencies jumped to the outside before the Japanese army completed the encirclement.
The New Tenth Brigade followed the Northern Bureau and other agencies to fight in western Hebei. The headquarters agency coordinated with the 22nd Regiment and the Guard Regiment to lead the Japanese troops on the middle route in the hinterland of Taihang, fighting for the 385th Brigade and the New Tenth Brigade directly commanded by the 129th Division Headquarters on the northern line.
time, severely damaging the Japanese troops on the northern route as their strength was weak.
The boss jokingly called this method Tian Ji's horse racing. At that time, someone mentioned the Tainan Military Region?
The boss said: "Zhou Weihan has more than 10,000 main troops at his disposal. He has abundant weapons supplies. In addition, the Tainan base area has vast strategic depth. If Zhou Weihan cannot even do counter-mopping up, I will
It’s better for him to stop being the commander of the military region and return to the headquarters’ cooking team to shoulder the responsibility!”
Judging from the current situation, the headquarters' deployment is correct.
The Japanese mopping up troops in Taibei were severely damaged by the Eighth Route Army, and various regiments captured a lot of money during the anti-mopping operations. The Japanese army was exhausted in the Taibei area.
The Japanese army on the middle route, which was pinned down at the junction of the four counties of Liao County, Wuxiang, Shexian and Licheng, received information from Masuko's advancing team. The Japanese army immediately deployed their troops, spreading out a large net from west to east and slowly advancing, waiting for a breakout.
The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army surrendered themselves into the trap.
However, the Japanese army's plan was destined to fail. After waiting in vain all night, the Japanese army found no trace of the Eighth Route Army everywhere.
"Baga, didn't Masuko Shigeo say that the Eighth Route Army was preparing to break out to the west and jump to the outside line? Will thousands of living people disappear out of thin air? Has Masuko's advance team been contacted?" said the 36th Division of the Japanese Army.
Shi Chongxinlang, the commander of the regiment's infantry regiment, had not seen traces of the Eighth Route Army for a long time, and he couldn't help but became furious.
"Your Excellency, General, the troops led by Lieutenant Masuko Shigeo lost contact with our department yesterday after radio contact. The radio station has remained silent to this day, and our telegraph personnel are unable to contact them!" said the adjutant on the side.
"General, will the Masuko advance team fall into a trap of the Eighth Route Army?" said Tokuda Sanji, the captain of the 225th Regiment of the 37th Division.
"Absolutely impossible!" Noburo Ishige categorically objected, but he had made speculations about this before, but he was just unwilling to admit it in front of outsiders.
"However, if our large-scale sweep does not make progress, I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain to General Okamura!" Tokuda Sanji raised the corner of his mouth and said again.
The Japanese army is not monolithic. The 37th Division of the Japanese Army has been stationed on the front line of Yuncheng to defend the National Army in Zhongtiao Mountain.
My childhood was the most comfortable in the First Army, and I had every advantage facing the national army in the First Theater.
The other units of the First Army were miserable in the face of the Eighth Route Army's guerrilla warfare. Not only did they lose troops and generals, they also had to be reprimanded by their superiors.
It turned out that during the previous counter-mopping operations by the Japanese army, Yoshio Shinozuka transferred troops from the 37th Division. His division commander Adachi used the excuse that the Japanese army was ready to move at Nakatiao Mountain more than 23 times and refused to carry out Yoshio Shinozuka's orders.
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The combat plan was fully formulated by the North China Expeditionary Force Headquarters, and the combat orders were personally issued by Okamura Neiji himself.
Anda Twenty-Three did not dare to make excuses this time, but he also played a trick when deploying troops.
After learning that the Japanese troops dispatched by the 36th Division were led by Noburo Ishige, the commander of the infantry regiment, Adachi 23rd immediately decided to send a regiment captain with the rank of Daizuo to lead the group.
In the name of assisting the Thirty-sixth Division in carrying out a large-scale sweep of the Eighth Route Army base areas, they were fully under the command of Noburo Ishizhong.
Yoshio Shinozuka and even Neji Okamura were very satisfied with this. In fact, Adachi told Tokuda Sanji before his arrival that he should conserve his strength during the sweep and not consume too many troops.
Therefore, Tokuda Sanji was quite interested in watching the excitement at this time. He could naturally share some of the credit for the success of the big sweep. The failure of the big sweep could also be said to be a fault of Noburo Ishige's command.
Although what Tokuda Sanji just said did not mean to accuse, he clearly meant to use Okamura Neji to pressure Ishige Noburo. Ishige Noburo was holding back his anger, and the scene fell into an embarrassing situation for a while.
In fact, the battle plan of the Japanese army on the middle route at this time could basically be declared a failure. After all, they had been eating dirt behind the Eighth Route Army. In name, they were chasing after each other, but in fact they didn't even see a hair.
"General, since the stronghold near the Handan-Changchang Highway has not reported the passing of the Eighth Route Army, it means that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army is still hidden in the mountains. We can increase our search efforts and go directly deep into the mountains. We will definitely find it.
Traces of the Eighth Route Army!" A Japanese officer who attacked quickly came to the rescue.
The little devil never expected that there would be a Japanese traitor named Isamu Terauchi inside.
As soon as this suggestion came out, the Japanese officers of the 36th Division were eager to wash away their shame and raised their hands in agreement. On the other hand, the Japanese officers of the 37th Division turned their attention to Tokuda Sanji.
"General, with all due respect, the Imperial Army is not familiar with mountainous terrain after all. The Eighth Route Army has always drilled into ravines at the first sight and entered deep mountains. The Eighth Route Army will be even more vulnerable!" Tokuda Sanji immediately retorted.
"idiot!"
In the end, it was Ishige Noburo who slapped the table and the Japanese army reached a consensus.
In the end, each division of the two divisions mobilized their troops, with Lookout Mountain as the core, to launch a dragnet search into the surrounding mountains.
