[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 788: Rectify Military Discipline (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

At this time, the commander of the Twelfth Army, Iida Sadagu, stood up again and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, this is a battle plan formulated by the Commander and the General Staff of the Twelfth Army, please approve it!" ”

After receiving the battle plan handed over by Iida Sadagu, Okamura looked down and said, "Rushi Suzheng's battle plan?" ”

"Hai, it's Lu Xisu's battle plan!" Iida Sadagu Road. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Okamura Ninji threw Iida Sadagu's battle plan on the conference table, and then said: "I won't read the battle plan, it just so happens that all of you have time today, so let's listen to Iida-kun's battle plan!" ”

"Hay!"

Iida Sadagu then continued: "Regarding the resistance of Russi, neither the lowly nor the Odaka Kamezo did not pay attention to it before, and even almost all the senior officers of the 12th Army believed that Russi's resistance had been wiped out in the Imperial Japanese Army's law and order suppression operation. But in fact, this is not the case, some time ago when the Imperial Japanese Army and the Chinese army were engaged in the southern Hebei campaign, Luxi's Tuba Road suddenly appeared, and large-scale operations were carried out in the Luxi Lunan area, and many large cities garrisoned by the imperial army were continuously captured, so that the imperial army was quite passive. ”

"Although under the careful deployment of the front army, the Tuba Road finally abandoned those occupied towns, but the imperial army was not able to eliminate the Tuba Road in Shandong, through this matter we can clearly see a problem, that is, after several years of development, the Tuba Road has developed into a powerful regular armed force, which can completely annihilate the troops below the size of the wing in the occupied area, so in order to consolidate the occupation area of Shandong, we must carry out a large-scale sweep of the Tuba Road in the defense area."

"Iida-kun, tell me about your plan!" Okamura Ninji said.

"Hay! The main area of this operation was the Luxi Security District, and the main goal was to clear the Tuba Road and other anti-Japanese forces in the area under its jurisdiction, and the main participating troops were the 21st Division, the 10th Brigade and the 10th Brigade, artillery, and charioteers, totaling about 15,000 people."

After Iida Sadagu finished speaking, Okamura Ningji said: "Iida-kun, although your battle plan is very good, but the scale is relatively small, the front army will use your battle plan as a blueprint to formulate a larger battle plan, the target is all the Tuba Road and anti-Japanese forces in the North China Front defense area, the specific battle time and combat strength will be notified to all units at that time, and you can make pre-war preparations after you go back!" ”

"Hay!"

"Then let's talk about the military discipline of the imperial army, in my opinion, the rectification of military discipline is far more important than the rectification of the security area, an army with loose military discipline is unlikely to be liked by the locals wherever it goes, and the combat effectiveness of such an army is very doubtful!" Okamura Ninji Road.

"Your Excellency Commander, in fact, the military discipline of the imperial army has always been very good when it is in the country, but for some reason it has become like this when it arrives!" Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the First Army, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke.

Major General Yukio Kasahara, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke: "Gentlemen, I think that the problem of the sloppy military discipline of the Imperial Japanese Army should be analyzed from two aspects: the quality of officers and soldiers and the problem of supply, the military discipline of the early Imperial Army is indeed much better than now, and the empire has participated in many wars in modern times, such as the Russo-Japanese War, such as the Eight-Nation Allied War of Aggression against China, and the Sino-Japanese War, and every time the Imperial Army can win the battle, these are closely related to strict military discipline. ”

However, as the war continued to expand, the quality of officers and men declined day by day. Officers and men are the backbone of the army, and the level of combat effectiveness of an army has a great deal to do with the quality of officers at the grassroots level. However, in the past few years, I have discovered a problem, that is, the training of our grass-roots officers has become more and more coarse, and you all know that the previous teaching plan of the Army University was carried out according to a three-year course with a quota of about 50 cadets, but now it has been changed to a two-year system, and with the urgency of the war situation, the base camp is even planning to change it to a one-year short-term education with a quota of 200 cadets. ”

Seeing the shocked expressions of these high-ranking officers in the conference room, Yukio Kasahara said, "Can such an officer training system cultivate the military talents that the empire needs?" ”

"Obviously, it can't, haven't you noticed that the newly appointed junior officers are far worse than us, except for the temper of those newly appointed junior officers, and they are all some defective products, it can be said that under the wartime system, the empire has interrupted the education of the officer corps in previous years, so that there is a phenomenon that the officers lack basic education."

Okamura Ninji also said at this time: "This problem that Kasahara-kun said is indeed very serious, in addition to the problems in officer education, there is an extreme shortage of grassroots officers in all divisions and regiments of the Imperial Army, as far as the 11th Army under my command before that is concerned, its officer shortage is about 40%, and the shortage below the quasi-noncommissioned officer is 30%, so many officers are temporarily promoted by the commander from the line of fire on the battlefield." ”

"For example, if an infantry squadron leader dies on the battlefield, our usual practice is to promote the deputy squadron leader or squad leader to the acting squadron leader, and after the battle is over, the acting squadron leader will naturally become the squadron leader, in fact, the squadron leader who took office at this time does not have the ability to command a combat squadron at all. Moreover, sometimes we often have to change several squadron leaders, or even group commanders or wing commanders, in a single battle, so the improvement of the quality of officers obviously cannot keep up with the improvement of their positions. ”

"In the long run, many of our squadron leaders, group leaders, and even officers at the level of wing commander may have only received a simple military education, or they may not have received an orthodox military education at all. The absence of high-quality officers shows the low combat effectiveness of the various units, and it is conceivable that military discipline is lax. ”

All of you here are relatively famous officers of the Japanese army, even the worst are all major generals of the army, and they are not clear about the current situation of the army, but some things are clear and clear, and if they really want to lift the lid, they may not have the courage to do so. In fact, it's not that it's not necessarily, but it doesn't necessarily have the courage.

"Kasawara-kun, you go on, although no one has been willing to take care of the issue of military discipline, but now I am entrusted by His Majesty the Emperor to hold the North China no matter how difficult it is, without a strong army, what can I use to complete the task assigned by His Majesty the Emperor! So the issue of military discipline must be dealt with! Okamura Ninji said loudly.

"Hay! After talking about the officer, let's talk about the soldiers of the empire, the reason why the Imperial Japanese Army was invincible at the beginning of the war has a lot to do with our soldiers, who were all specially trained active soldiers with high quality and strong combat effectiveness. But as the war continued to expand, many of the troops were reservists, that is, soldiers in the township. ”

Then Yukio Kasawara continued: "As you may know, the reservists come directly from the Japanese people, and there is no concept of discipline at all. Usually they go into battle immediately after enlistment, and at most only after one or two months of recruit training, such soldiers are not soldiers at all, at best some peasants with weapons. The people of the Empire were also aware of the qualities of the people, and although they were reluctant to say so, they had to say that the lack of public morality, the lack of information, the lack of understanding of international affairs, the lack of tolerance and the benevolent upbringing of mercy to the weak were an important cause of the present crisis of the Imperial Army. ”

Iida Sadagu was very dissatisfied with what Kasawara Yukio said about the Japanese people, although Kasawara Yukio's qualifications are not shallow, but despite this, Iida Sadogu still said with an unkind face: "Kasawara-kun, although I also agree with your analysis just now, but I don't agree with the evaluation of the imperial people just now, your analysis of these bad roots of the Japanese people seems to be too broad and superficial, and it is unfair!" (To be continued.) )