The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 464 The Greatest Disgrace, A Tougher Opponent
The spring sweep ended in a fiasco.

The devils and puppet soldiers stationed in the First Army in Shanxi ushered in unprecedented depression.

In Taiyuan City, the headquarters of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi, the commander of the Japanese First Army Yoshio Shinozuka, is currently listening to the summary of the final casualties of the Japanese army's attack on the Independence Regiment in Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang.

"A total of more than [-] casualties were caused by each brigade, of which more than [-] were killed during the battle. In addition, more than [-] people died due to the wounded and sick, and the total number of deaths was more than [-]. people."

"There were more than [-] casualties in the various units of the Imperial Association Army, of which more than [-] were killed in battle, more than [-] were captured, and more than [-] people were missing."

"idiot!"

Yoshio Shinozuka was angry. Although his temperament was always calm and he had prepared himself mentally before listening to the report on the casualties, Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't help breaking out when he heard the specific casualty data. Guard, anger suddenly arises.

Now he doesn't even want to know what the casualties of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment are.

Even if the entire army of the Independence Regiment is wiped out, the Independence Regiment only has a few thousand troops. Compared with the casualties of the imperial troops this time, in Shinozuka Yoshio's view, it is already a disgraceful defeat.

After looking at the data in detail, he finally came to the conclusion that the casualty ratio between the Great Japanese Empire and the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army was even 10:1 higher.

The great shame made Yoshio Shinozuka furious at the post-war military meeting held immediately, and said on the spot:

"This spring raid, the battle between Yuxi Village and Zhangjiazhuang, is the biggest shame of the Japanese Empire since the Manchuria Incident!"

"It is the greatest shame in the history of my First Army!"

"If this shameful humiliation is not washed away, in the future, from me to all of you, I am afraid that they will all commit suicide by caesarean section to thank the emperor."

Amid Shinozuka Yoshio's angry voice, all the Japanese officers of the First Army who participated in the meeting lowered their heads.

Yoshio Shinozuka was even more annoyed: "Baga, lift your heads up for me, do you still look like an imperial soldier?"

"A soldier should have the backbone to fear nothing. Now that he has been humiliated, what should he do as an imperial soldier?"

"Destroy the Independence Regiment, Your Excellency General, we want to completely destroy the Independence Regiment, and we will be ashamed!"

A devil captain gritted his teeth and said that several of his other friends were all killed in the battle to reinforce Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang.

The other devil officers also opened their mouths one after another, all hating the independent regiment.

Only then did Yoshio Shinozuka feel a little relieved, and looked around the officers who raised their heads again, and said: "After this battle, the independent regiment will become more dangerous to my First Army again. You should work together, and if you can destroy the independent regiment in one fell swoop, even if you join three more regiments, I will never hesitate."

"Hi!" The Japanese officers responded in unison, and they all felt the firmness of Commander Shinozuka Yoshio's attitude of destroying the Independence Regiment.

After the meeting, Shinozuka Yoshio had someone call Yamamoto Kazuki again.

Today's Yamamoto has already been defeated by Kong Jie and has no vigor. The whole person looks a lot more humble. Seeing Yoshio Shinozuka, Yamamoto respectfully saluted the military, "General!"

"Come on, sit down!"

"Hi!"

After Yamamoto was seated, Shinozuka Yoshio said: "Yamamoto-kun, I'll get straight to the point. This time our army reinforced the strength of nine Japanese brigades, and joined forces with the Fourth Mixed Brigade to attack the Independent Regiment. The result was a disastrous defeat. You Do you know where the key point is?"

Yamamoto frowned slightly, and said, "General, what do you mean, the Eighth Route Army's small combat unit that infiltrated the enemy's rear during the battle between the two sides and attacked the temporary joint headquarters in one fell swoop?"

"That's right, the temporary joint headquarters was destroyed, including Yamaguchi-kun, including the nine captains. This was a fatal blow to our army, and it led to the overall defeat.

This is undoubtedly the infiltrating the enemy's rear and beheading tactics that Yamamoto-kun often mentioned. I originally wanted to see this scene on the secret service team, but I didn't want to see it on the enemy. "

Shinozuka Yoshio said calmly with a little dissatisfaction.

Yamamoto lowered his head: "It was Yamamoto who failed the general's expectations!"

Shinozuka Yoshio glanced at Yamamoto, stepped forward and patted Yamamoto on the shoulder lightly, then returned to the seat and sat down again, and continued calmly:

"There is an old saying in China, that is to know the shame and then be brave. There is also the principle that a sad soldier will win. It doesn't matter if you fail a few times. As long as you can learn from the lessons of failure and finally eliminate your opponent in one fell swoop, that is victory."

"Although the equipment of the Eighth Route Army is backward, the ammunition is scarce, and the quality of personnel is poor, but they have this quality. They will not be ashamed to learn from the enemy. Just like many tactics of our army, it will soon be seen from their troops It can be seen that Balu has been learning combat experience from our imperial troops."

"Knowing yourself and the enemy is the only way to win a hundred battles. The Chinese Art of War studies this very thoroughly."

"Yamamoto-kun, it's time for us to calm down and learn from Eight Routes to learn their strengths."

"Hi! Yamamoto is taught!" Yamamoto replied.

Shinozuka Yoshio said: "Continuing this topic, although the equipment and military quality of the Eighth Route Army are not good, they are better at being familiar with the mountain environment, such as guerrilla warfare, mobile warfare in the mountains and forests, as well as sparrow warfare, mine warfare, etc. "

"These are things we should learn from. The Eighth Route Army has raided again and again over the years. Why is it always treating the symptoms instead of the root cause?"

"The most important point is that the troops of the Eighth Route Army are more dispersed, and the vast mountainous area is used as a guerrilla zone.

Each of our sweeps consumes a lot of manpower, material resources, and time.

And they only need to hide a little to avoid our soldiers.

In this way, we will only become more and more tired, but Balu can still maintain strong energy.

After all, we used too much energy to deal with the eight roads, but did not improve much efficiency.

Some cannons mean to fight mosquitoes, and an untargeted attack will never be effective. "

Yamamoto said thoughtfully, "General, what do you mean?"

Shinozuka Yoshio said: "I have been thinking about the complete elimination of the Eighth Route Army for a long time, and the large-scale raids that were launched blindly by consuming a lot of manpower and material resources will always treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

In order to completely eliminate the hidden danger of the Eighth Route Army, we need to launch more targeted offensive methods.

And all of this, from your Yamamoto special team, and the action of the Eighth Route Army infiltrating the enemy's rear and destroying the temporary joint headquarters, I see hope.

It's very simple, Balu likes to fight guerrilla warfare, so we fight guerrillas with guerrillas.

Could it be that the combat troops trained with the resources of our empire against the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army are no better than the Tubalu who can't even eat enough? "

Yamamoto suddenly said: "Your Excellency, what do you mean, instead of mopping up the Eighth Route Army with large-scale forces, cultivate small elite combat troops and eat up the Eighth Route Army's guerrilla troops one by one?"

Shinozuka Yoshio nodded with a smile, and then said, "That's right, that's exactly what I thought, and that's why I asked you to come here."

"After this battle, in response to the increasingly difficult situation of the Eighth Route Army, I applied to the commander-in-chief for a special unit. All members of this unit have undergone special training and have lived with the Chinese for a long time. They can speak He speaks Chinese fluently, and even masters a lot of local dialects, and also has a good understanding of local folk customs, culture, traditions, etc.”

"They can easily disguise and lurk inside the root of the Eighth Route Army."

"Wait for the opportunity to find the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and at the same time carry out the task of assassinating Eighth Route Army officers and spying on the military situation."

"You spend some more time, give them some special military training, enhance their combat effectiveness, and then infiltrate the enemy's interior."

"In addition, our army will also train a group of plainclothes teams to coordinate operations against the Eighth Route Army's guerrilla operations."

"The focus is on dealing with the Independent Regiment. If the headquarters of the Independent Regiment can be destroyed in one fell swoop, I think it will be an irreversible blow to the Independent Regiment."

"Hi!" Yamamoto replied.

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As the Japanese army's disastrous defeat by the Independence Regiment in Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang came to an end, the influence of this battle was far from over.

The morale of the Japanese and puppet troops was low for a while, and the anti-Japanese sentiment of the Chinese army in Shanxi was high, so I won’t mention it for the time being.

But he said that because of the unprecedented defeat of the spring raids, what Yoshio Shinozuka called was the biggest humiliation of the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield since the Manchuria Incident.

The high-level Japanese army accused the North China Front Army of being unfavorable in combat.

Not long after the spring sweep on the [-]th ended, Hayao Tada, the former commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in North China, because of the failure of the spring sweep, especially the disastrous defeat of the Japanese army in the First World War in Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, had a very bad impact and was dismissed by high-level officials. Accused of ineffective command, he was transferred from North China, and Lieutenant General Okamura Ningji took over as commander-in-chief of the North China Front Army.

Compared with the former commander-in-chief Tada Hayao, the newly appointed Okamura Neiji has always been known in the army for being cruel, decisive, and cunning.

When it comes to the various means to deal with the Eighth Route Army, Okamura Ningji is undoubtedly a step up.

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The commander-in-chief of the devil's North China Front Army has changed. When the news reached the independent regiment, the soldiers were having a meeting at the regiment headquarters.

Kong Jiezheng proposed commendation for the commando's achievements in penetrating the enemy's rear, destroying the temporary joint headquarters of the Japanese army in one fell swoop, and even forcing the Japanese army to voluntarily retreat.

For this reason, even Huang Baiyang, the leader of the sniper platoon, had no choice but to give Ye Min a thumbs up, admiringly said: "Now I, Lao Yang, are convinced. If you want to say that the most elite combat troops of our independent regiment, you assault The team recognizes the second, and no one dares to recognize the first."

"Good guy, the two sides are fighting fiercely. You infiltrated the enemy's rear and directly took over the devil's headquarters. If you really encounter troops like yours in a war, then you will be hit with a hammer!"

The cadres who said the humorous joke burst into laughter.

Then, Wang An, the head of the enemy industry department, arrived, and after reporting the news, the battalion and company commanders did not realize the seriousness of the problem, and even joked about it.

"The devil has suffered too many defeats. He has no choice but to replace him. I don't think that old devil Hayao Tada is very good. This time the replacement is probably thicker."

First Battalion Commander Wang Leihu mocked unabashedly.

"That's right, isn't it just that the commander-in-chief has changed! This little devil, let's beat him as we like!"

The cadres were talking and laughing, and as time went by, the talking and laughing quickly subsided again.

Because everyone noticed that the head of the group didn't smile, and his face was ugly, and his brows were deeply frowned.

"Captain, is Neiji Okamura some kind of powerful person?"

Shen Quan guessed the reason and asked tentatively.

The war criminal Okamura Neiji is naturally powerful, and what is even more powerful is his cruelty and cunning. Among the commanders-in-chief of the Japanese army, this Okamura Neiji is the most difficult to deal with.

The numerous crimes committed during the war of aggression against China are too numerous to write down.

Kong Jie is well aware of this.

But what is supposed to come will come anyway. Kong Jie made up his mind, not afraid, and said with a smile: "The little devil is not stupid, this Tada Jun can't do it, and he can't be replaced by a more useless person, so this Okamura Ningji , definitely stronger than Tada Hayao."

"But it's nothing. It's still the same sentence. Soldiers will block you, water will cover you, and the little devil is powerful. Our independent regiment is better than him."

When Kong Jie said this, he naturally despised the enemy strategically, but tactically, Kong Jie attached great importance to the opponent.

The soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, what are they still worrying about as the regiment leader!

After the meeting, Kong Jie immediately racked his brains to recall all aspects of his impressions of Neiji Okamura, as well as the various insidious means that Neiji Okamura had done against the Eighth Route Army.

Then find a way to deal with it and resolve it one by one.

Just think about it until the sky is over.

After combing everything that needed to be sorted out, Kong Jie stretched his waist, walked out of the regiment headquarters room, and moved his body.

Adequate preparations allowed Captain Kong to regain his confidence.

Looking at the increasingly drowsy sky, Captain Kong said domineeringly to himself:

Isn't it the little Okamura Ningji!

Come on, old devil, it's our turn to compete!

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(End of this chapter)