After hearing the words of Lieutenant General Sasaki, who almost pointed at his own nose and called his subordinates a loser, Yamaoka Michio, who had a strong self-esteem, could not bear it no matter how good his temper was and no matter how strict the hierarchy in the Japanese army was.【.Com
Text] Not to mention that Michio Yamaoka, who is considered a successful young man, is also a proud and arrogant guy.
Regarding Lieutenant General Sasaki's accusation, Michio Yamaoka restrained his anger and said in a calm tone: "Your Excellency, please don't accuse our agents like this. You have been a consultant on Manchurian affairs for many years.
I think you should understand that we previously broke into the secret camps of the anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese armed forces and destroyed their determination and ability to resist. First, most of their secret camps were established in shallow mountain areas where it is easy to attack."
"Second, when we destroy the secret camps where the so-called anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese elements rely on to survive, we can often rely on the confessions of their so-called traitors. As the saying goes, the easiest place to break into a fortress is inside it."
"With traitors who know them well and lead us to destroy their supplies, we can often get twice the result with half the effort. As for this China anti-Manchu anti-Japanese armed force, firstly, we have not captured any prisoners of war. Secondly, so far, they have not had any internal
A traitor appears."
"When our agents who went into the mountains encountered their so-called reconnaissance troops, they once thought about capturing their personnel in order to extract confessions. However, they did not expect that these people were extremely vigilant and seemed to have received professional counter-arrests.
Prisoner training. Not only did our agents fail to succeed, they also suffered heavy losses during the prisoner capture operation."
"Without the prisoner's confession, without the traitor's guidance, our agents can only bite the bullet and contact them head-on, hoping to extract useful information for us. What does this mean to the agents? I think your Excellency
It should be clear. Those Chinese people are obviously very cunning, and they do not trust our agents who are well disguised. They will even kill them if there is even the slightest suspicion."
"Don't talk about those Manchukuo agents who are greedy for life and fear of death. Even the Chinese agents that our Empire of Japan has painstakingly cultivated, except for a few individuals, most of them were discovered by them. This is beyond my imagination.
The place where it’s solved.”
"Almost all of our agents grew up in Manchuria. Their living habits and language are no different from those of ordinary Manchurians. How come they still reveal their identities? Could it be that these Chinese mainlanders can read minds and can
Can’t you read the other person’s mind?”
"Your Excellency, I think you are familiar with the capabilities of the Imperial Agents. During the China Incident last year, the Imperial Agents obtained a large amount of information on the China Army while fighting against it, and made great achievements for the Empire. But this time
But I didn’t expect that the deep mountains and forests of Manchukuo would suffer such heavy losses.”
"Your Excellency, had it not been for the request of Deputy Chief of Staff Ishihara, the Kwantung Army Intelligence Division would never have sent so many agents into the mountains and forests for a small group of armed forces composed of China Army prisoners who escaped from the prison camp.
It is precisely because of such a huge loss that I believe that this information is true and has credibility."
Although Sasaki was very angry at Yamaoka Michio's contradictory words, he was a China expert after all. Having spent most of his military career in China, he knew the temper and temperament of China in most areas very well.
Lieutenant General Sasaki said that Yamaoka Michio's words still make sense.
Sasaki suppressed the anger in his heart, picked up the intelligence and read it carefully from the beginning, and said: "Yamaoka-kun, I have no doubts about the loyalty and ability of these intelligence personnel to the empire, but the credibility of this intelligence is not.
It’s not that big.”
"So many intelligence officers have been exposed. How do you know whether the few surviving intelligence officers are those left by the Chinese to confuse our informants? Are their words intended to cover up something?"
"Your Excellency, we are not here to evaluate the authenticity of the intelligence. It needs to be tested. How reliable is this intelligence? After we mobilize our troops to conduct a clearing operation in the area pointed out in the intelligence,
Don’t you understand everything?”
Although he had been suppressing the anger in his heart, these words of Michio Yamaoka finally brought out Sasaki Chuichi's anger. Sasaki took a red and blue pencil and drew on the map according to the area mentioned in the intelligence.
A large circle said coldly: "Yamaoka-kun, you are very light-hearted when you talk about it."
"Yamaoka-kun, based on the terrain here, how many troops do you plan to mobilize to clear this place? Ten thousand? Or twenty thousand? As a professionally trained imperial officer, you should know that we are dragging the net there.
During the campaign, the blockade not only cannot be lifted, but also needs to be strengthened."
"Your Excellency, the Eighth Regiment of the Fourth Division has completed the elimination of the so-called Second and Third Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the Xiajiang area. It will be transferred to Ning'an and the Weihe area to be assigned to your command. It will be responsible for the attack on Zhang Guangcai Ridge.
Cleanup of the area."
"With the assistance of the Eighth Regiment, coupled with the currently mobilized troops, I think it will be enough to complete the clearing there. Or we can use the Eighth Regiment to remove some of the Manchurian troops participating in the blockade, and then
They carried out the mission of clearing up. At the same time, in accordance with the usual practice, some Kwantung Army was selected to be used as a supervisory team,"
"Although I was transferred to the Kwantung Army Intelligence Section Chief just at the beginning of the year, I have also heard that the Lieutenant General is known as the father of the Manchurian Army. The so-called Manchurian Army was trained and organized by your Excellency. We use the Manchurian Army to go into the mountains and clear out the troops.
This will prove your merits to Tokyo and the Kwantung Army.
"Moreover, if we clean up there, even if the Chinese army is not found, then we can use the investigation method to determine the approximate hiding location of the Chinese army. Since our opponents have not been found in the mountainous areas north of Dunhua, then they can only
Hiding in the mountains southwest of Ning'an. This was their only choice after abandoning northern Dunhua as a hiding place."
Regarding Sasaki Chuichi's rhetorical question, Yamaoka Michi, who has been an underground intelligence officer since graduating from the sergeant school, pointed to the map and answered. After Lieutenant General Sasaki Chuichi heard his suggestion to carry out a net-like sweep of the mountainous area in northern Dunhua,
, the trace of contempt revealed in his eyes, Yamaoka Michio could clearly see it.
Michio Yamaoka felt extremely angry at his contempt for Sasaki Chuichi. As the head of the Intelligence Section, his main task was to provide necessary intelligence support for the operations of the Kwantung Army. His sights were more focused on the Manchu-Soviet border.
On that powerful polar bear.
As for the anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese elements in Manchuria, it is not his main scope of work. He was assigned by Deputy Chief of Staff Ishihara to assist the proud lieutenant general in encircling and suppressing these thieves. In Yamaoka Michio's view, he was overestimating his talents.
As for how many troops to deploy, that is a matter for Sasaki Toichi, who is the commander-in-chief of this campaign, and has nothing to do with him as the head of the intelligence section. His mission is to provide necessary intelligence support for military operations, not to personally
Command troops to participate in the campaign.
However, he was angry at Sasaki's words, but after all, as a senior staff member, Yamaoka Michio's head was relatively calm. He knew that if he acted out of impulse, he would be the only one who would be unlucky in the end. Before he came, Ishihara
The deputy chief of staff had repeatedly told him to cooperate with the lieutenant general. So after hesitating for a while, Yamaoka Michio answered Sasaki's question.
Regarding Yamaoka Michio's answer, Sasaki responded with a sneer: "Yamaoka-kun, I don't know how your intelligence work is doing. But you still need to study the military theory. Is it possible that your military knowledge
Shouldn’t all the knowledge be given back to the teachers at the sergeant academy?”
"Deploying the Eighth Regiment is easy as you say. The Eighth Regiment can only dispatch more than 3,000 people. For this more than 100 miles of virgin forest, these 3,000 people are like sending 3,000 small fishes to the
In the Sea of Japan.
"And see for yourself, on the premise of keeping the original blockade unchanged, how many troops can you deploy into the mountains to clear up the country? What we need is to annihilate these anti-Manchu anti-Japanese armed forces and maintain the stability of Manchuria, which has been the lifeline of the empire. And
It is not about fighting a rout war to defeat these anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements and turn them into rogue bandits."
"This anti-Manchu anti-Japanese element is very different from other anti-Manchu armed forces. They are not divided into small groups. According to the analysis of their previous battles, they have always been in a group. To suppress them, we need to
We must mobilize at least ten times its strength, otherwise it will be easy for it to escape. This is not the plains of southern Manchuria, but northern Manchuria with mountains and dense forests. And what we want is a war of annihilation, not a defeat."
"Furthermore, these Chinese people hold the empire's top secrets, and we cannot let their soldiers escape. According to the requirements of Tokyo and the Kwantung Army headquarters, we cannot even take the step-by-step approach we did to other anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements."
The only way to weaken them is to annihilate them all in one go."
"According to your method, according to our usual method of dealing with the anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese elements in Manchuria, we can only fight a rout, but cannot annihilate them all. These Chinese people are very cunning. Once they find out that I will carry out a large-scale purge, and
When the blockade is weakened, they will look for opportunities to escape. Once they slip out of the blockade and leak the empire's secrets, not only me, but even you, Yamaoka-kun, will not be able to explain it to the Kwantung Army and the Tokyo headquarters."
"So Mr. Yamaoka, what I need is not these possibilities, rough guesses, but their exact locations. Tell your agents not to send back these without seeing their secret camps with your own eyes."
What a very useful report.”
"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, I'm sorry. The mountains are now closed due to heavy snow. It is very difficult for our agents to move in the mountains, especially for supplies. Moreover, according to the meteorological information sent by the Kwantung Army Air Force, the entire northern part of Dunhua will be affected in the next few days.
, the southwestern mountainous areas of Ning'an will face heavy snowfall, and the temperature will drop to below minus 40 degrees. According to the estimated snowfall amount in the report, after this snow, the snow in the mountains can even reach waist deep. In
Under such circumstances, our intelligence personnel may have lost their ability to move."
"In order to protect the safety of these intelligence personnel that the empire has painstakingly cultivated, I will order all of our intelligence personnel, except for the intelligence personnel of Manchukuo, to withdraw from the mountainous area."
"Your Excellency, the Kwantung Army's intelligence department can no longer afford to suffer such heavy losses. You should know that these intelligence personnel have been painstakingly trained by us. They are prepared to deal with changes in the situation in the future. They are not here in Northern Manchuria.
To deal with these thieves in the deep mountains and old forests."
Having said that, Yamaoka Michio took out a report from a folder in his hand and handed it to Sasaki and said: "However, in order to avoid the gap in intelligence caused by our intelligence personnel after the withdrawal, I have contacted the aviation force
I have contacted them and asked them to send reconnaissance planes to carry out large-scale aerial reconnaissance again after the snowfall in the mountainous areas at the junction of Ning'an and Weihe, north of Dunhua Emu Town. I think with the snow as a reference, aerial reconnaissance can be faster
to find these Chinese elements."
"In addition, Your Majesty Lieutenant General, I would like to advise you. Since Your Excellency Lieutenant General has mobilized a large number of troops to strictly blockade this mountain forest, you can also mobilize some troops from these blockade troops to go into the mountains and actively search for it.
Instead of sending out some small troops, they only provide support and supplies to the agents who enter the mountains. The Imperial Army has always taken the initiative to seek war, and there has never been such a situation of avoiding war."
"Your Excellency, if you let these Chinese people go, the Kwantung Army and Tokyo will certainly not forgive you. But these intelligence personnel of mine are painstakingly trained by the empire and serve the entire empire's jihad, not just you. If
Therefore, the losses are too great. I am afraid that the Kwantung Army and Tokyo will not be able to spare you. As for the reason for the withdrawal, I will explain it to Commander Ueda Kenkichi, Chief of Staff Isotani Rensuke and Deputy Chief of Staff Ishihara Kanji. Please don’t worry.
.”
Having said this, Michio Yamaoka looked at Sasaki, who was ashen-faced after hearing what he said, and then smiled and said: "Your Excellency, there is one more thing that I have to remind you. Although you have formulated
They have the patience to complete the tactics of a long-term siege, but General Ueda Kenkichi and the Tokyo base camp may not have this patience. According to my estimation, the food and ammunition obtained by the Chinese in Weihe County are enough to support them through
This winter. And if you wait until next spring, I'm afraid you'll be thinking about how to explain it to the Kwantung Army Headquarters and Tokyo Base Camp."
"So I suggest you take advantage of the snow, which will expose the whereabouts of those Chinese people, or send troops to follow my suggestion and conduct a sweep of the mountainous area north of Dunhua to determine the exact hiding place of those Chinese people.
Land. After all, those swamps in the north of Dunhua cannot serve as any barrier in the winter when northern China is so cold that it can freeze all life."
"In addition, there is another suggestion for your reference. If the troops of the Fourth Division are used to undertake blockade tasks, it is still possible. If they are used as the main force to enter the mountains and clear up the mountains, please consider it carefully. If it is convenient for you, you can still
I advise you to report to Commander Ueda Kenkichi and transfer the troops of the Twelfth Division to take over the Fourth Division. Otherwise, if there is any abnormality in the troops of the Fourth Division, it may jeopardize your entire clearing plan."
"Your Excellency, I have said everything that should be said and should not be said. As for whether you can listen to it or not, that is your personal matter. Please take care of yourself and I will take my leave." After that, Yamaoka Michio did not say anything.
Seeing the expression on Joichi Sasaki's face, who was furious at his words, he walked out of Joichi Sasaki's office without looking back.
"Haga." Looking at Yamaoka Michio's back as he walked away, Sasaki was completely angered by his attitude. As soon as he drew his saber, he cut the desk in front of him and the map on the table into two pieces.
Although he was angry, Sasaki Toichi had to admit that what Yamaoka Michitake said made sense. Indeed, neither the Kwantung Army Headquarters nor the Tokyo Base Camp would give him this time. Although Commander Ueda Kenkichi agreed
However, he had called him several times to ask about his progress. Although he didn't say much after getting his reply, the few words he revealed already made Sasaki feel tremendous pressure.
Because he knew that this was not only the intention of Commander Ueda Kenkichi, but also the intention of Tokyo and even the Emperor. As the top military adviser of the Puppet Manchukuo for many years, he had given strong support to the Kwantung Army’s Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department during his tenure. He knew even more
, what makes the emperor and Tokyo anxious is that these Chinese are not simple anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements, they hold the empire's top military secrets in their hands.
After pondering for a long time, Sasaki called to the combat staff and issued several orders in succession: "First, contact the Kwantung Army headquarters immediately and ask them to send planes after the snow to attack the southwest of Ning'an, Dunhua Emu, and the north of Qingshangouzi line.
Large-scale aerial reconnaissance was once again conducted in the mountainous areas."
"Order the Eighth Regiment attached to the Fourth Division to immediately prepare to enter the mountains without making corrections after arriving. In Dunhua and Ning'an, the Manchurian Forest Police Brigade and
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