As for the more than 100 people who were captured by this Mashiko advance team, Yang Zhen had detailed information at hand, and most of these people were unarmed people who were scattered when the Japanese army was encircled. You must know that the headquarters of the 18th Army, which was too large at that time, numbered several thousand unarmed non-combatants alone.

Many of them are not even the most basic soldiers, let alone have any military training. The speed at which the Japanese army was encircled was quite fast, and many of these non-combatants, who had not received strict military training, could not break out and fall behind for one reason or another.

Although the number of this Mashiko advance team is a little smaller, after all, they have all the weapons in their hands. It is not unusual to catch some non-combatants who have fallen behind and do not even have a stick in their hands. If this is not possible, then it is not a regular fighting force.

As long as these people did not defect, they did not die on the Japanese execution ground after being captured. In Yang Jicai's raid on Taiyuan in 42, most of them have been rescued. Among them were teachers from the Party School of the Northern Bureau, staff of the Bank of Southern Hebei, staff of the local government in the border areas, and non-combatants from the headquarters.

There were not too many combatants, and most of them were captured while fighting the main Japanese forces. It's not a single unlucky ghost who was caught by this Mashiko advance team, but there are really very few. Most of them were stragglers who were scattered during the breakout, and none of them were captured in the formation.

The actions of this Mashiko advance team did bring certain harm to the headquarters of the 18th Group Army to break through the siege. But in terms of the degree of harm, it is far less powerful than they boast. At most, it is the information it provides, which makes the originally smooth breakthrough become a forced breakthrough.

Even according to their own words, more than 100 people took the initiative to attack the troops of 2,000 people, and they fought a day of white-knuckle fighting. Not to mention that regardless of the outcome of the battle, for ordinary infantry combat, this battle can be described as heroic. But for special operations, that means a failed tactical operation.

What are your goals? What are your combat missions? Special forces are not wasted on entanglement with enemy infantry, let alone on fighting bayonets with enemy infantry. Special forces are human beings, not gods, and they are troops that take unconventional operations, not infantry troops.

If more than 100 people are taken to fight bayonets with the enemy who has an absolute advantage, then it can only be said that this commander was kicked in the head by a donkey, and the kick was definitely not light. Even if it is an infantry unit of the Japanese army, it is just a squadron that is not satisfied with the formation, and when it is helpless on all sides, it fights a war of attrition with an absolutely superior enemy army, let alone a white-knuckle battle?

The small Japanese army had indeed repeatedly defeated the regular Chinese army several times more than them. But that's the premise that there's a presence behind them, with their main force following, or with the main force around. What if a single Japanese infantry squadron faced two regiments of opponents alone, and let them try?

If the so-called special operation of the Japanese army, if it is really as successful as they boast. Why, instead of developing and expanding, was it disbanded immediately after the war? At present, the reorganization is reorganized, but the fact that it was disbanded immediately after the war at that time also shows that the Japanese army should not be very satisfied with the real effect of removing water from this so-called advance team.

Yang Zhen actually has a considerable understanding of this so-called Mashiko Advance Team, which was blown into the sky by the Japanese army itself. After the Japanese army swept North China in 41, it was learned that the Japanese army had dispatched special operations units to pursue and sabotage the headquarters of the 18th Group Army during the sweep.

Yang Zhen asked for detailed information about the Japanese army's operation through the Central Committee and the commander of the Advance Army at that time, and specially from the headquarters of the 18th Group Army and the remaining troops of the 129th Division. At Yang Zhen's request, the information detailed the descriptions of every cadre and soldier who had fought with this Japanese army, as well as the accounts of the participants in the two battles of Guojiayu and Cross Ridge at that time.

After painstaking research, Yang Zhen found that this Mashiko Advance Team was actually a model of a special force at most. Moreover, its mode of action was coordinated with the overall strategy of the Japanese army in the sweep at that time. In addition to fishing in troubled waters, their actions were more to cooperate with the Japanese heavy army groups that were rapidly encircling the surrounding area, and to provide them with intelligence support.

If there was no heavy group of troops quickly encircled by the surrounding Japanese army, it distracted the headquarters of the 18th Army. In addition, there were too many non-combatants and organs in the Eighteenth Army, and they were unusually slow to move, and they were stared at by this Mashiko advance team. This Mashiko Advance Team was simply incapable of completing the tasks assigned to them by their superiors on their own. Its actions are completely different from that of real special forces.

At that time, after reading the information, although it also aroused Yang Zhen's vigilance, he didn't care too much about the performance of this Mashiko 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 caught his attention. The characteristics of the Japanese army's actions this time, as well as the situation of the entire battlefield, are two different from those in the Taihang Mountains of that year. Before the Japanese army swept up, it had already been monitored by radio and roughly locked the location of the headquarters of the 18th Group Army.

The large amount of information provided by this Mashiko Advance Team also made the main force of the Japanese army bite the headquarters of the 18th Army all the time. Whether it was the battle of Guojiayu or Cross Ridge, when the Mashiko advance team was moving, the heavy army groups deployed around the Taihang Mountains were rapidly encircling the core area.

Especially in the battle of the Cross Ridge Breakout, the covering troops were fighting with the main Japanese forces outflanked on both flanks. They simply did not take care of the small Japanese army that was biting behind them, which allowed them to kill, wound and capture a large number of stragglers, as well as scattered personnel, mainly non-combatants and light and serious wounded.

Even so, after the Japanese army closed the encirclement, a large number of personnel who did not stand out finally broke through the encirclement after several turnovers under the cover of the troops who stayed in the base area and persisted in the struggle. Although the losses of that sweep were not light, the backbone and vitality were preserved. It can be seen that the use of this Mashiko advance team was not very successful.

And now, judging from the battle situation in the entire Jizhong battlefield, this Japanese special forces simply does not have the same opportunity as it did back then. In other words, its actions in Renqiu, or any other place, could not be coordinated by the main forces of the Japanese army at all. In other words, this Japanese army is fighting alone, and it is completely different from the one in the fourth year.

Being able to move far from the rear in enemy-occupied areas, act alone for long periods of time, and fulfill the operational orders deployed by superiors is really the most important point of the capabilities required by special forces. At present, the Japanese troops around Renqiu can do this, which shows that they have already touched the threshold of this means of warfare.

The current mass of enemy troops on the Renqiu battlefield shows that the traditional reconnaissance thinking of the Japanese army is constantly changing. If you talk about the role of the Mashiko Advance Team back then, it can only be called a super-large special team at best. Then today's Japanese army really has the prototype of special forces.

Although this Japanese army has been touching here smoothly, after the tactical attempt was exposed, the performance of this Japanese special forces force proved that they are far from being truly familiar with and mastering special operations tactics, and have not yet jumped out of the traditional way of thinking of reconnaissance infantry. For the time being, he was still standing at the door, still a long way from entering the house.

The reason why I was able to touch it here didn't cause too many waves before. Except for a part of the lucky element and careful planning and decisive action, I am afraid that there must be people among them who are familiar with the base areas behind enemy lines to cooperate, so that they can touch such a long distance.

And if the Japanese army wants to find this kind of person, it is not difficult for the Japanese army to find this kind of person, whether it is Jizhong or Jinchaji, or the original Jilu Border Military Region. In the first half of '41 and '42, the Japanese army launched a series of unusually brutal sweeps against the base areas in North China, and in the following years, the various base areas in North China faced extreme difficulties for a long time due to man-made disasters and natural disasters. As a result, a large number of people either defected to the enemy because they were captured, or they took the initiative to join the enemy and become traitors because they couldn't endure hardship.

And among these traitors, there are not a few people who have a certain level and are quite familiar with the base area. With these traitors who are familiar with the major base areas in North China leading the way, the Japanese army's actions can naturally achieve twice the result with half the effort. The existence of these people is probably the main reason why this Japanese army was able to get here smoothly.

Thinking of this, Yang Zhen suddenly remembered someone. Maybe these Japanese soldiers can touch here smoothly, and it is very likely that it has something to do with him. That person was none other than the former commander of the Hebei-Shandong Border Military Region who defected in July this year. Although he defected, first, the time of the mutiny was not long and only 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 Jilu border area for too long, and every grass and tree here is in his head. As the former commander of the Hebei-Shandong Border Military Region, he is unusually familiar with the entire terrain from the Tuxiao River to Jinnan, the situation of the enemy and us, and the situation in the area under the jurisdiction of the former Hebei-Shandong Border Military Region.

Familiarity with one's own jurisdiction or operational area is the most basic requirement for a military commander. What's more, although this guy is not very good, he still has a certain level in military affairs, otherwise he would not have been appointed as the commander of the Jilu Border Military Region.

If this Japanese army landed from Bohai Bay, that area happened to be under the jurisdiction of the former Hebei-Lubian Military Region. If he led the team, this Japanese army avoided all the way, and now deployed the troops of the Bohai Naval Region north of the Tuxiao River, plus bypassed his own battle line, and touched the depth of the Jizhong battlefield Renqiu, which would be easy to explain.

However, although these special forces of the Japanese army are still immature, they are still far from getting rid of outdated concepts in terms of strategy. Compared with the special forces of the Anti-United Nations itself, it is far from mature, and it is not enough to be afraid for the time being. However, one thing must be noted, that is, the Japanese army has obviously discovered the power of this kind of force, and is also stepping up the simulation or even imitation.

Compared with the attack on his front finger, this is what Yang Zhen values more. And the special forces of all countries in the world have been accumulated little by little from scratch. What's more, the Japanese army has fought against the special forces of the Anti-Japanese Federation many times, even if they suffer a lot of losses, they should always find a way.

Although this doorway, it may only be a scale and half of the claws they have figured out by relying on experience. But this scale and half claw may be a foundation, if they have enough patience and heart, it can become a ladder for them to comprehend the essence of real special operations. It's hard at the beginning, but once you've taken the first step, is the rest of the thing difficult?

As it gradually matures through one operation after another, and in addition to its absolutely world-class tactical reconnaissance capabilities and tactics, it is very easy to come up with a set of special operations models that suit one's own reality. This is what Yang Zhen is most worried about and most alarmed.