Chapter 107: Operations in the First War Zone

For this guard battalion commander, from the first day he was transferred to the guard regiment as a battalion commander, he was taught that even if a Japanese army approached the headquarters, it was not enough to threaten the safety of the headquarters and No. 1. The fact that a piece of paper was stolen from the headquarters by outsiders is a disgrace to the guard troops. Even if the means are more vicious, they will not hesitate to do so for the safety of the headquarters and No. 1.

This time he was touched by the Japanese army to the periphery of the front finger, and in his opinion, it was already a great shame for himself and his troops. If the Japanese soldier pretends to be dead and gets through the blinds, it will once again threaten the safety of No. 1. Without the removal orders on the third and sixth, he himself was ashamed to death.

For him, the commander of the guard battalion, the security of the front finger and the number one is greater than anything else. To be soft on the enemy is to be irresponsible to oneself. As for what others think, it has nothing to do with him a dime. The surprised eyes of the brothers around him didn't need to pay attention to it at all.

So far, the Japanese army has invested more than 300 people in the vicinity of Renqiu, the first and only special force of the entire North China Front, except for these three brothers who have been specially left behind for some special reasons, the rest of the people have been wiped out, and no one has been able to return to the original place of departure.

As the bodies of these Japanese soldiers were buried in this tomb on the spot, the first special operations force of the Japanese army in North China completely disappeared from the land of Jizhong. Except for the puddles of blood on the ground that have not yet had time to be cleaned up, there is no trace of the existence of this Japanese army in the entire Renqiu North Gate battlefield.

The high hopes given to this Japanese army by General Okamura Ninji, commander of the Japanese North China Front, also disappeared as their bodies were buried in the ground. General Okamura's expectations for this force to save the tide of the war eventually came to naught.

I have only scratched some surfaces, but I am far from mastering the real theory of special operations. Whether it is special forces, special forces, or special forces, in short, it is not an ordinary army to fight. In the end, it was still used as an infiltration force, as well as the use of ordinary infantry, and even the entire Japanese military leadership, and finally suffered from being too conservative in the strategic use of this kind of force.

As Yang Zhen commented, the special forces were not used in such a way by the Japanese army. More than 300 people were invested on one front, and the number is indeed not much. Throwing these 300 people into a single battlefield is not a problem. But according to the real special operations model, this kind of operation should be like a mercury outlet, infiltrating in multiple ways, each locking on to the target, and tactically cooperating with each other.

If Mashiko Shigeo can calm down a little bit, the three hundred people under his command will be reduced to zero, and infiltrate from the four city gates of Renqiu. Or wait until night and use your heavy grenadier to launch climbing tools and climb the city from multiple directions. The process's goal-centered, multi-channel infiltration approach may not be without any chance of success.

There are not many troops in the anti-union inner line guards, and they still have to bear the front line internal guards. Only four gates, as well as part of the city walls, can be controlled. If he could be more stable and switch to a multi-channel infiltration operation at night, the guard forces of the Anti-United Nations would have to take care of one at the expense of the other.

However, according to the implementation of the action plan when he was sweeping in the Taihang Mountains, he chose the tactic of concentrating all his forces to attack a little. If you want to make a breakthrough, completely defeat the enemy's first line of defense, and break through the whole line with a point to the surface.

Forget about the absence of artillery support, flank cover and follow-up support. The special operation mode was changed to an ordinary infantry battle. These painstakingly cultivated special forces were finally used as ordinary infantry. His subordinates who had been painstakingly cultivated were wasted on assault one by one.

Of course, if he were to change to other ordinary troops, even the ordinary combat units of the Anti-Japanese Federation, it would not be unreasonable for him to do so. It is even possible to use the military literacy of his subordinates to really break through the North Gate in a short period of time. But he happened to meet a hedgehog with a piercing hand and met an opponent who was even more professional than him.

Not only did he not succeed in making a breakthrough in the shortest possible time according to his ideas, but he also wasted his own precious fighters and subordinates in the futile attacks again and again. The sneak attack, which was likely to affect the entire battle situation, was messed up by himself. If he can return alive and learn from the experience, this defeat may make the Japanese army adjust the mode of use.

It's a pity that he and his subordinates, along with those instructors who wanted to grasp first-hand information, all disappeared into the land of Jizhong. For the Japanese army, no matter what kind of experience they gained, it was impossible to bring it back. Their experience, along with their corpses, was buried in the Jizhong Plain.

The Japanese army, which had become accustomed to careful consideration in battlefield research, wanted to grasp first-hand information so that it could prepare for the adjustment of tactical use. In this operation, not only the trained troops were dispatched, but also their tactical instructors.

As a result, these instructors not only failed to meet the ideas of the Japanese military leaders at the time, but brought back first-hand information, but even took them into the same way. Unless Okamura Ninji once again asks for help from the Kwantung Army, the North China Front, which has lost all its capital, can only end up training a similar unit.

Although they accept new things, they are still very conservative in their bones. In fact, they don't have to painstakingly study some tactics of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, their own allies have very good, and even relatively mature special operations tactics. Although it is not as good as the tactics of the Anti-Japanese Federation, it is much stronger than the Japanese half scoop water.

If nothing else, the tactics that the Japanese had already used in the European and North African theaters of the German army, the Brandenburg regiment, were already used by the Japanese, and it was enough for the Japanese to learn half of them. Especially in the four or three years of the German army, the special operation to rescue the Italian dictator can be compared to the classics of the classics.

But the Japanese army had to learn the tactics of the opponent who had only fought on the battlefield. But not to mention that not a single prisoner was caught, but also because of the special forces activities of the Anti-Japanese Federation, except for the prisoners required for the necessary interrogation, there was basically no living mouth, so there was not much useful information.

The things that have been scaled and half clawed are completely emulated in the whole tactic, and they have deviated from the direction in terms of strategic use. In the end, what came out was still based on the tactics of the Mashiko Advance Team and the mainland advance team under the Eleventh Army. Finally, in addition, he learned some tactics of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, as well as the Japanese army's own infiltration tactics as tactics.

At the same time, the tactical qualities displayed by similar units of the Anti-Japanese Federation on the battlefield were used as the training simulation objects, but they did not completely deviate from the original old tactics of the Japanese army itself. The result of patchwork is to finally make a four-way dislike. The only effect was to arouse Yang Zhen's vigilance.

However, this incident caused Yang Zhen's vigilance to be vigilant, but it did not mean that Yang Zhen would put all his energy on this. For Yang Zhen, at present, he still has to put more energy on the battlefield in Jizhong, and also take into account the battlefield in the northeast. As for the situation of the special forces that have appeared in the Japanese army, we will wait until the post-war summary to talk about it.

And just as Mashiko Shigeo was fighting hard outside the north gate of Renqiu, the reinforcements that the Japanese army base camp had tried to draw out were also advancing to the Jizhong battlefield at the same time. In order to avoid the Shandong battlefield, which had become a mess, and not be held back by the communist army in Shandong, the Japanese army even did not hesitate to take a detour to eastern Henan for reinforcements.

As for the frequent movements in the First Theater of Operations on the Chongqing side, which had already been shown by intelligence, the Japanese army did not take it seriously at all. It is believed that it is just some small actions made by Chongqing to cope with the pressure under the suppression of domestic political and public opinion. At present, most of the elite troops in Chongqing are concentrated on the Sino-Burmese border and the Burmese battlefield, and they are not capable of opening up new battlefields.

What's more, at present, with Yan'an, Chongqing is already at odds with each other. will not be at this time, for the Yan'an side to take advantage of the fire, consume their own elite troops, to cooperate with Yan'an's war situation in North China. The entire Chinese dispatch army, except for Okamura Ninji, still maintains a certain degree of vigilance against the actions in the First War Zone, but it is no longer able to deal with it.

The rest are either the headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army or the base camp of the Japanese army. As for the deployment of troops in the First War Zone, he didn't care at all. However, the Chinese dispatch army also ordered the 11th Army stationed in China to enter a state of combat readiness in order to deal with possible changes in Chongqing. But for the First War Zone, the Japanese army did not care too much.

As a result, I don't know if there is a mental calculation or no intention, or if there is no mental calculation. The two divisions of the newly reinforced Japanese army, which were on their way through eastern Henan to central Hebei on their way through eastern Henan under the full cover of the US Air Force in China, happened to collide fiercely with the two group armies that launched a full-front counterattack on the east bank of the new Yellow River in the First Theater under the full cover of the US Air Force in China.

In order to take advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the Japanese North China Front, which was pinned down in the battlefields of Hebei and Shandong, to recover the entire eastern Henan region, so as to alleviate the increasing political pressure at home. Under the supervision of the deputy chief of staff who arrived in Luoyang sent by the Chongqing Military Commission to sit in Luoyang, who was known as Xiao Zhuge who had no last resort, and the director of the first division of the chamber.

The deputy commander of the First War Zone, although he was very reluctant, still came up and invested his own caretakeover capital, the 13th Army and the 85th Army, as well as all the artillery. On January 2, 1944, he forcibly crossed the New Yellow River to avoid the Yellow River and launched an all-out attack on Kaifeng. At the same time, with a group army, it launched an attack to the east of the New Yellow River.

Of course, the deputy commander-in-chief, who served as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, adhered to the consistent idea of being a substitute for the dead ghost. The group army that attacked east of the New Yellow River still sent a group army dominated by miscellaneous armies. And his two pieces of heart meat were placed on the battlefield around Kaifeng, in a position where they could attack and retreat. The main artillery forces were also given to these two armies.

The Chongqing side attaches great importance to the counteroffensive operation in the First War Zone. Not only did he send the deputy chief of staff and the director of the first division of the chamber of attendants to supervise the war, but he also gave the director of the chamberlain, Tianda, the right to cut down the generals at all levels below the army level who were unfavorable to the battle.

In order to prevent the troops below from contributing to their work, they played tricks to preserve their strength. In addition to sending two generals to supervise the battle, the first person of the Military Commission also personally sent a number of secret telegrams to the deputy commander. Tell this confidant general that if he can't take eastern Henan in this battle, he, the deputy commander of the theater, will be punished the most severely. If that unit dares to play tricks and preserve its strength, it will be abolished on the spot.

There is a steel knife in the neck, and the director of the first division of the chamber who has always been at odds with him behind him, the eyes that have to find something to do if there is nothing to do. Even if the deputy commander wants to play tricks and preserve his strength, he doesn't have the courage to do so. Therefore, the two group armies in the First Theater worked very hard in combat operations.