my bright sword career

Chapter 44 Be My Head
Kazuki Yamamoto, who graduated from the Imperial Army University, has a lot of qualifications. Many generals in active service in the Japanese army are his classmates. For example, Seishiro Itagaki, who is currently serving as the Minister of Army in the cabinet, and him are classmates of the same period in Lu University.

Not only that, most of his classmates have already been promoted to major general or even lieutenant general, and his rank is the lowest among his classmates at the same time.

The reason for this is not that Kazuki Yamamoto is incapable, on the contrary, his ability is also outstanding among his classmates at the same time. The reason why he is still only a general is because Kazuki Yamamoto is not interested in commanding large corps. Instead, he devoted himself to the study of special operations.

In this era, special operations is an emerging military discipline, which began to sprout in the First World War, but it has not been valued by the military of various countries.

Until the 20s, some soldiers who were interested in special operations began to appear in the military academies of various military powers. Kazuki Yamamoto was one of them. In order to study special operations, he even went to the special forces school in Berlin, Germany. I studied for three years.

This is why Kazuki Yamamoto was unable to be promoted to general officer like his classmates. His research topics were too biased, and he was not valued by the high-level Japanese army. It was already the limit to be a general.

Although his promotion rate was the slowest compared with his classmates at the same time, he never regretted it.

Kazuki Yamamoto was a proud man, and he looked down on those old, rigid-minded officials in charge of ordnance production.In his view, Japan's weapons and equipment have lagged far behind the world.

Take a look at what weapons they equip the Japanese Army with. There are five [-]-type rifles loaded with ammunition. Every time a bullet is fired, you have to manually pull the bolt to eject the shell. There is only one light machine gun for each team. The United Kingdom, the United States and other countries have already equipped light machine guns to the squad level.

Of course, the high-level Japanese army also has other reasons. Japan's resources are too poor. If it is equipped with automatic weapons, it will greatly increase the combat cost.

Based on the current Japanese soldiers carrying 150 rounds of ammunition, when using the [-]-style rifle, these bullets are enough to support the soldiers for a day of combat.But if automatic weapons are used, this bullet is not even enough to support soldiers to fight for an hour.

According to this calculation, Japan's existing productivity, transportation capacity, and logistics support system must be expanded by 10 times to ensure the army's continuous combat capability. Such a high combat cost is beyond Japan's affordability.

Kazuki Yamamoto scoffed at this theory.

In his view, Japan's lack of resources is an objective fact, but this cannot be the reason for the Japanese army to use this backward single-shot weapon.

What's more, since the Manchurian Incident in 1931, the three northeastern provinces of China have become the main bases for resource supply and arms production of the Empire of Japan. After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937 and the "August [-]" Incident in Shanghai, most of China The land and resources have fallen into the hands of Japan.

At this time, it would be a bit ulterior motives to say that Japan is poor in resources. What's more, the Soviets had taught the Japanese army a good lesson in the Nomenkan Battle last year.

In the depths of the unobstructed Gobi, on the front more than ten kilometers wide, flying dust swept the earth, and thousands of T-34 Soviet tanks came overwhelmingly, and the tracks of the tanks mercilessly crushed Japan. The spirit and body of the soldiers buried the arrogant northward ambition of the Japanese Empire in the desert of Mongolia.

In this service, the Japanese army killed more than 3000 people, while the Soviet army suffered less than [-] casualties.

This slap by the Soviets stunned all the top Japanese officials. From then on, no one in the Japanese base camp dared to shout the slogan of going north.

After the Battle of Nomenkan, Kazuki Yamamoto became more and more convinced of his ideas.

He believes that if Japan wants to dominate the world, the only way to get rid of China as soon as possible is to turn China into Japan's back garden. Only in this way can it obtain a steady stream of resources and almost endless manpower from China, and compete with established powers such as the United States and Britain for the world. right.

For this reason, Kazuki Yamamoto is also doing his best to assist Commander Shinozuka Yoshio to eliminate the resistance forces in Shanxi. Originally, the first target to deal with in his plan was the Eighth Route Army headquarters. As long as the Eighth Route Army headquarters is eliminated, the Shanxi The Eighth Route Army will be quickly annihilated by the army of the Great Japanese Empire without a leader.

What he never expected was that he was hit head-on with a stick in the first battle. Although he didn't hurt his muscles and bones, he had a big bump on his head.

He was just angry, but he felt a burst of fear in his heart: "Why does this team have a German MG34 machine gun? There are also MP38 submachine guns and Mauser 98K rifles? Could it be the German weapon master of the Chinese people?"

In fact, Kazuki Yamamoto didn’t know that Gao Hongming and his militia used the MG42 general-purpose machine gun that would have appeared in two years and the MP40 submachine gun that just came out this year, because these two guns are improvements of the MG38 and MP38 In the dark, Kazuki Yamamoto could only distinguish from the gunshots, and this was the reason for the misunderstanding.

"When you go back, you must report this situation to General Shinozuka Yoshio, and let the people from Special High-Tech Co., Ltd. start investigating!"

Not to mention that Kazuki Yamamoto fled back to Taiyuan in embarrassment, and the news that the independent regiment was attacked by the Japanese army soon spread to the Eighth Route Army headquarters in Daxiawan.

"Dang..."

With a crisp sound, a porcelain bowl was thrown to the ground, and the angry voice of the deputy commander came from the headquarters.

"What kind of main regiment... fart... I think he is making dough, and he is a completely stupid command. A regiment was beaten to the ground by a small army of little devils. Such a regiment leader is only worthy of feeding livestock... ...Go...that head of his regiment has been withdrawn by me!"

"Yes!"

Looking at the still angry deputy commander, Commander Liu of the 129th Division advised, "Deputy commander, the independent regiment was not completely beaten. They also seized some weapons and equipment and a few corpses of the Japanese army."

"Seized!"

It was fine if Commander Liu didn't say anything, but when he said it, the deputy commander became angry again: "If it weren't for the help of the local militia group that passed by, the independent group might not even be able to get a single hair from the enemy, so I am ashamed to mention it."

The deputy commander bent down to look at the map for a while, and then said to Master Liu of the 129th Division: "We need to find someone to reorganize the independent regiment of the 386th Brigade. It can't just collapse like this."

"Correct!"

Commander Liu nodded, and then said: "Those who want to rule the army must first choose generals."

The deputy commander-in-chief was silent for a while, and after pacing back and forth for a while, he suddenly asked, "Where is Li Yunlong?"

A staff officer replied: "Chief, the punishment of Li Yunlong by the headquarters has not yet ended, and he is still the director of the quilt factory in the border area."

The deputy commander-in-chief said impatiently: "Go... tell him, don't embroider any more, pretend to be garlic, and immediately go to the independent regiment as the head of the regiment!"

(End of this chapter)