Chapter 98: The Japanese Army Standing at the Threshold
As for the more than 100 people captured by the Masuko advance team, Yang Zhen had detailed information on hand. Most of these people were unarmed personnel who were dispersed when the Japanese army encircled them. You must know that the headquarters of the Eighteenth Army was too large at that time.
, there are thousands of unarmed non-combatants alone.
Many of them are not even the most basic soldiers, let alone have any military training. The Japanese army encircled them with heavy troops very quickly. Many of these non-combatants who have not received strict military training cannot break out due to one or other reasons.
Get out and fall behind.
Although the number of the Masuko advance team is smaller, after all, they are fully equipped with weapons. It is not unusual to catch some stragglers who do not even have a stick in their hands. If this is not possible, then what?
It is no longer a regular combat force.
As long as these people did not rebel, they were not sacrificed on the Japanese execution ground after being captured. Most of them had been rescued during Yang Jicai's raid on Taiyuan in 1942. Among them were teachers from the Northern Bureau Party School and Jinan Bank.
staff, as well as staff of local governments in border areas, and non-combatants at the headquarters.
Basically, there were not too many combatants, and most of them were captured while fighting the main force of the Japanese army. Not all of the unlucky guys were caught by the Masuko advance team, but they were really very few. Most of them were captured during the breakout.
None of the stragglers who were dispersed were captured in an organic form.
The actions of the Masuko Advance Team did bring some harm to the 18th Army Headquarters' breakout. But the extent of the harm was far less than what they boasted. At most, the intelligence they provided made the originally smooth breakout possible.
, turned into a forced breakout.
Even according to their own statement, more than a hundred people took the initiative to attack an army of two thousand people and fought hand-to-hand combat for a day. Regardless of the outcome, for ordinary infantry combat, this battle can be said to be heroic. But
For special operations, this means a failed tactical application.
What is your goal? What is your combat mission? Special forces are not wasted on entangled with enemy infantry, let alone bayonets with enemy infantry. Special forces are humans, not gods. They engage in unconventional warfare.
troops, not troops to be used as infantry.
If more than a hundred people were to fight with an overwhelmingly superior enemy with bayonets, it can only be said that the commander's head was kicked by a donkey, and the kick was definitely not light. Even the Japanese infantry unit was just a dissatisfied person.
An organized squadron, with no support from all sides, is fighting a war of attrition against an overwhelmingly superior enemy force, not to mention a hand-to-hand battle?
The small Japanese army has indeed repeatedly defeated the Chinese regular army, which is several times more powerful than them. But that is only if there is someone behind them, with their main force following them, or the main force is by their side. If a single Japanese infantry squadron,
Facing opponents from two groups alone, and then let them try?
If the so-called special operations of the Japanese army were as successful as they boasted, why not only did they not develop and expand, but they were disbanded immediately after the war? They were reorganized and reorganized now, but they were disbanded immediately after the war.
It also shows that the Japanese army was not very satisfied with the real results achieved by this so-called advance team after removing water.
In fact, Yang Zhen already knew a lot about the so-called Masuko Advance Team, which was praised by the Japanese army. After the Japanese army launched a large-scale raid on North China in 1941, he learned that the Japanese army dispatched special operations troops during this raid.
Pursue and destroy the headquarters of the 18th Army.
Yang Zhen, through the central government and the commander of the advancing army at that time, specifically obtained detailed information on this Japanese operation from the headquarters of the 18th Army and the remaining troops of the 129th Division. The information was detailed at Yang Zhen's request.
I got the descriptions of every cadre and soldier who had ever fought against this Japanese army, as well as the accounts of the participants in the two battles of Guojiayu and Shiziling.
After painstaking research, Yang Zhen discovered that the Masuko advance team was actually at most a special agent unit. Moreover, its action mode was in coordination with the overall strategy of the Japanese army during the raids at that time. In addition to fishing in troubled waters, their actions
More importantly, they cooperated with the heavily surrounded Japanese army groups that were quickly encircling them, and provided them with intelligence support.
If there were not the heavy troop groups that the surrounding Japanese troops quickly encircled, it would distract the attention of the Eighteenth Army Headquarters. In addition, there were too many non-combatants and agencies in the Eighteenth Army, and the movements were unusually slow. The Masuko advance team was keeping a close eye on them.
Don't let go. This Masuko advance team is simply incapable of completing the tasks assigned by their superiors on their own. Their actions are completely different from those of real special forces.
After reading the information at that time, although it aroused Yang Zhen's certain vigilance, he did not pay too much attention to the performance of the Masuko advance team. Especially after the Japanese army disbanded this so-called special advance team after the war,
Yang Zhen also relaxed his vigilance a little.
But the current actions of the Japanese army attracted his attention. The characteristics of the Japanese army's actions this time, as well as the situation of the entire battlefield, were completely different from those in the Taihang Mountains back then. The Japanese army had already monitored through radio before the raid.
The location of the headquarters of the Eighteenth Army was roughly locked.
The large amount of intelligence provided by the Masuko advancing team also allowed the main force of the Japanese army to keep a firm hold on the headquarters of the Eighteenth Army. Whether it was the battle of Guojiayu or Shiziling, when the Masuko advancing team was operating, the heavy troop groups deployed around the Taihang Mountains,
It is rapidly encircling the core area.
Especially during the breakout battle at Cross Ridge, the covering troops were fighting against the main force of the Japanese army that was outflanking them from both sides. They simply ignored the small Japanese army that was biting behind them, allowing them to kill, wound, and capture a large number of stragglers.
, as well as dispersed personnel, mainly non-combatants and lightly or seriously wounded.
Even so, after the Japanese encirclement was closed, a large number of personnel who did not break out were finally able to successfully break through under the cover of the troops who stayed in the base area and persisted in the struggle. Although the losses in that large-scale raid were not light, the backbone and vitality were preserved.
It came down. It can be seen that the use of this Masuko advance team was not very successful.
Judging from the current situation of the entire Jizhong battlefield, this Japanese special force has no chance at all like it did back then. In other words, its actions in Renqiu or anywhere will not receive support from the main force of the Japanese army.
.In other words, this Japanese army is purely fighting alone, which is completely different from the one in 41.
Being able to stay far away from the rear in enemy-occupied areas, act alone for a long time, and complete the combat orders deployed by superiors, this is truly the most important ability required by special forces. The fact that the Japanese troops around Renqiu can do this shows that they have already
We have reached the threshold of this combat method.
The enemy troops currently on the Renqiu battlefield illustrate that the Japanese army's traditional reconnaissance thinking is constantly changing. If we talk about the role of the Masuko Advance Team back then, it can only be called a super-large special agent team at best.
Then today's Japanese army really has the prototype of a special forces.
Although the Japanese army had a smooth journey to get here, after their tactical intentions were exposed, the performance of this Japanese special forces proved that they were far from truly familiar with and mastered special operations tactics, and had not yet jumped out of the traditional reconnaissance infantry.
The way of thinking. For the moment, we are still standing at the door, and there is still a long way to go before entering the room.
The reason why they were able to reach this place did not cause too many disturbances before. In addition to some luck, careful planning and decisive actions, I am afraid that there must be someone familiar with the base area behind enemy lines among them to cooperate, which allowed them to
Can reach such a long distance.
It would not be difficult for the Japanese army to find such people, whether it was Jizhong, Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, or the original Hebei-Shandong Border Military Region. In 1941 and the first half of 1942, the Japanese army launched a series of abnormal attacks on the North China base area.
The brutal sweeps, and the following years, caused by man-made disasters and natural disasters, the various base areas in North China faced extreme difficulties for a long period of time. As a result, a large number of people, or because they were captured and surrendered to the enemy, rebelled.
Or he could not bear the hardship and voluntarily surrendered to the enemy and became a traitor.
Among these traitors, there are many who have a certain level and are quite familiar with the base areas. With these traitors who are familiar with the major base areas in North China leading the way, the Japanese army can naturally do twice the result with half the effort. The existence of these people is probably why this Japanese army can
The main reason for successfully reaching here.
Thinking of this, Yang Zhen suddenly remembered a person. Maybe these Japanese soldiers were able to reach here smoothly, and it was very likely to be related to him. That person was none other than the former commander of the Hebei-Shandong Border Military Region who rebelled in July this year
.Although he rebelled, the first thing is that the rebellion lasted only a little more than four months, which means that the basic deployment of the Hebei-Shandong Border Military Region, which has been revoked, is still in his mind.
The second is that he has lived and fought in the entire Hebei-Shandong Border Region for too long, and every plant and tree here is in his head. As the former commander of the Hebei-Shandong Border Military Region, he has a deep understanding of the entire area from Tuhai River to Jinnan.
I am extremely familiar with the terrain, enemy and friendly situations, and the situation in the former Hebei-Shandong Border Military Region.
Familiarity with one's own jurisdiction or combat area is the most basic requirement for a military commander. What's more, although this guy's character is not very good, he still has a certain level of military skills, otherwise he would not have been appointed as the commander in the first place.
Commander of the Lubian Military Region.
If this Japanese army landed from the Bohai Bay, that area happened to be under the jurisdiction of the original Hebei-Shandong Border Military Region. If he led the team, this Japanese army avoided it all the way, and now deployed the Bohai Navy Region troops north of the Tuhai River, plus bypass
It is easy to explain that our own battle line touched the depth of the Jizhong battlefield and Renqiu.
However, although these special forces of the Japanese army are still immature, they are far from breaking away from old concepts in strategy. Compared with the Anti-Japanese Special Forces' own special forces, they are far from mature and not enough to be feared for the time being. But one thing must be done
Note that the Japanese army has obviously discovered the power of this kind of troops, and is also simulating or even imitating them.
Compared with the attack on his front finger, this is what Yang Zhen values more. The special forces of all countries in the world have accumulated little by little from scratch. What's more, the Japanese army has repeatedly fought with the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
In a battle with special forces, even if you suffer too much, you should still find some tricks.
Although this doorway may be just a glimpse of what they have figured out based on experience. But this scratch may be a foundation. If they have enough patience and heart, it can become a ladder for them to understand the essence of true special operations. Everything is difficult at the beginning, but
Once you take the first step, is the rest still difficult?
After gradually maturing through repeated operations, coupled with its absolutely world-class tactical reconnaissance capabilities and tactics, it is easy to develop a special operations model that suits its own reality. This is what Yang Zhen is most worried about and is most alert to.