Chapter Ninety-Seven: Yang Zhen's Vigilance

After Chai Shirong rushed to the north gate with reinforcements and left the front finger, Yang Zhen raised his head and threw the red and blue pencils in his hand onto the map, and his brows furrowed deeply. Renqiu County was suddenly attacked, and although Yang Zhen said it was relaxed and showed that he didn't care, it was only calm on the surface.

But in his heart, although he didn't care about his headquarters, he cared too much about the attack on his location, or he was angry, and he wouldn't panic because of it. No matter what kind of troops the Japanese army came to attack, he was still very confident in his guard troops.

But for Yang Zhen, the tactics adopted by the Japanese army in this sneak attack made him feel a little alert, or a sense of oppression. This is not the ordinary tactical reconnaissance and infiltration tactics used by the Japanese army.

No matter which direction this Japanese army came from, it was able to reach the vicinity of Renqiu County, which was deep in the battle line, under the condition that the nearest control area of the surrounding Japanese army was hundreds of kilometers away. The tactical use of this mode is simply too familiar to him.

It is not surprising that the Japanese army used to use make-up reconnaissance to penetrate deep into the battle line on the battlefield, to indicate targets for artillery and aviation, and to destroy the opponent's command system and logistics base. When fighting in the Northeast, the Anti-Japanese Federation encountered it more than once.

But usually such actions of the Japanese army are generally carried out in the shallow depth of the battle line. Unless the focus of the attack is on the flanks and the tactics of large-scale leapfrog infiltration attacks are adopted, they will generally not penetrate about 15 kilometers deep into the battle line. Because the general artillery positions, supply points, plus the headquarters are generally five to six kilometers deep.

All the actions of the Japanese army were to cooperate with the frontal forces to break through. Strike at enemy artillery positions, command systems, and tactical supply points, control the choke points of communication, and snipe enemy officers and soldiers with cold guns. Create confusion in the depth of the defenders and create conditions for a surprise attack by frontal troops.

Even a small number of make-up reconnaissance operations that went deep into the defenders' defense line were in coordination with the Japanese troops who were charging or besieging the surrounding area. If you go deeper and farther, and there is no heavy encirclement or impact of the Japanese army around you,. For the Japanese army, the meaning of cooperating with its breakthrough operation was lost.

At present, when the lone army has no support and no support in the surrounding area, it dares to penetrate more than 100 kilometers deep into the entire front, which is very inconsistent with the habits of the Japanese army. In addition, in addition to dressing up as civilians, there are many times when the Japanese army dresses up as opponents, but they generally do not change weapons easily.

That is to say, when the Japanese army generally carries out tactical reconnaissance, it usually uses Japanese standard weapons. After all, in military operations, the more familiar the troops are with the use of weapons and ammunition, the better. Unless they were specially trained troops, the Japanese generally used their own standard weapons, even in infiltration operations behind enemy lines.

Although there are times when the enemy's weapons and equipment are used, such as when Guo Bingxun was captured, it was because of the encounter with the Japanese reconnaissance unit disguised as his own. The company commander who led the command was confused by a small number of Japanese reconnaissance units and took advantage of the weakness precisely because he fell in love with the Belgian infantry machine gun in his hand that he fell in love with the part of the Japanese reconnaissance unit disguised as the Northeast Army.

However, this was only a rare case, and most of the time, the Japanese army generally used its own standard weapons. Moreover, it is also in the form of stragglers, using the gaps in the defenders' defense line to drill in, and then gathering to destroy. In the past, the Japanese army's individual combat ability was quite strong, and even if a dozen Japanese soldiers infiltrated it, they would generally cause great damage in shallow depth.

And it is not for nothing to send troops to disguise themselves as opponents and penetrate deep into the enemy's depths. But there are not many of them, and the number of troops invested at one time is not very large. Mainly along the main transport routes, or in the midst of refugees. At the same time, the depth of activity is also quite limited.

Before that, the largest operation of the Japanese army was barely a preliminary special operation. It was during the Japanese army's sweep of the North China base area in 41 that the Mashiko Advance Team, which was sent by the Japanese garrison in Shanxi to find and destroy the headquarters of the 18th Group Army in the Taihang Mountains, was active in the Taihang Mountains at that time.

Judging from the entire situation of the battle, this special unit of the Japanese army, which was fully equipped with the uniforms of the 18th Group Army and the equipment of light weapons, did cause great damage to the 18th Group Army at that time. But the real destruction was not a direct attack or the eating of the headquarters of the 18th Army.

The results achieved by this force were far less than they boasted. Its own achievements cannot be said to be few, but rather limited. The real threat they posed during that combat operation was the use of their tactical literacy and reconnaissance capabilities, as well as their own camouflage.

Bypassing the cordon of the guard unit of the headquarters of the 18th Group Army, and cooperating with the troops on the periphery that were rapidly surrounding on all sides, they bit the headquarters of the 18th Group Army. And constantly the direction of action of the headquarters of the 18th Army, guiding the Japanese aviation and artillery to carry out long-range fire strikes. and inform the surrounding Japanese heavy army group to encircle the headquarters of the 18th Army.

The losses of the headquarters of the 18th Group Army in Guojiayu World War I were not light, and the losses in the Cross Ridge Breakout Operation were so heavy, because it was this Mashiko Advance Team that led the Japanese air force to bomb repeatedly, and the Japanese army quickly closed the siege with heavy troops outside the long-range artillery fire. As a result, the guard unit of the headquarters of the 18th Army focused most of its energy on dealing with the heavy Japanese troops encircling from all sides, and did not have the energy to take into account the results of this small Japanese army.

Although the tactics adopted by the Mashiko Advance Team in the 41 years of operations have begun to take shape as a special force, it is not a real special operation after all. And at present, this Japanese army, judging from the current combat situation, is fundamentally different from all the previous reconnaissance and combat modes of the Japanese army.

Not only did he wear the military uniform of the Anti-Japanese Federation, but he also held the standard weapons of the Anti-United Nations, and he easily bypassed the various warning points of the Jin-Cha-Ji troops on the periphery. In addition to the fact that the brother troops of Jinchaji are new units and lack experience. There can only be one problem, that is, the Japanese army must have accepted and mastered a certain concept of special operations.

And Yang Zhen has this idea, which is not only because he has mastered the Chinese dialect, is familiar with the characteristics of the Anti-United Nations itself, and is equipped with weapons and equipment for the Anti-United Nations. Rather, this Japanese army went against the norm and ran long distances and penetrated such a long distance, which shows that they have mastered a certain concept of special operations.

Although Yang Zhen did not think that this army, under the situation of a considerable scale, its so-called infiltration operation was running hundreds of kilometers, and under the characteristics of the surrounding areas that were either old base areas or densely populated areas, there would not be any clues exposed, and at the same time, they did not encounter any troops who found their flaws.

But in this kind of situation, even if it is to kill people and destroy them, it is difficult to do it quietly. This Japanese army did not make a big wave, and almost smoothly touched Renqiu, the area where the entire Jizhong battlefield is deep at the moment. It can only be said that in addition to careful planning and rigorous action, it must have undergone strict special training.

At present, the Japanese army outside Renqiu County should be a unit trained by the Japanese army according to the experience accumulated when fighting with the special forces of the Anti-Japanese Union. However, it is obvious that although these Japanese troops have undergone special training, they are still obviously the same as the Japanese reconnaissance and sabotage units in terms of use, and there has been no major change in the overall strategy.

The most important thing is that the current actions of the Japanese army show that at best, even if it has touched the threshold, it is far from truly grasping the theory and essence of special operations. This Japanese special operations force, judging from the current actions, is more like a death squad. With a scale of 300 people, the special forces fought deep behind enemy lines, and no matter what the purpose was, they did not invest so many troops at one time.

In the case of the surrounding strong enemies, not only did they not achieve a quick victory, but after a blow, they quickly broke away regardless of whether they succeeded or not. If there is no requirement to be able to find fighters again, it is a sneak attack that fails and a hard fight. Didn't this special operations force use it like that?

In the fourth year, the so-called success of the Mashiko Advance Force, at that time, the troops protecting the headquarters of the Eighteenth Army focused more on the large Japanese troops that were rapidly encircling the periphery. In the past four years, the Japanese army has a clear goal of sweeping the Taihang Mountains, which is to eliminate the headquarters of the 18th Group Army.

Not only did they adopt a variety of technical means, especially through the monitoring of the 18 th Group Army's radio stations, they were able to roughly lock down the location of the 18 th Group Army Headquarters, but they also mobilized heavy troops to take advantage of their superiority in mobility to encircle the 18 th Group Army Headquarters' range of activities on all sides.

As a result, the troops protecting the headquarters of the 18th Army focused more on dealing with the heavy Japanese troops surrounded on all sides. On the contrary, he ignored the small Japanese army that followed him. Moreover, the headquarters and organs and logistics departments are too large to escape the tracking of this Mashiko advance team.

If this so-called Mashiko Advance Team alone is more than 100 people, under the situation that there is no Japanese equipment and troops around, and the heavy army group that occupies an absolute advantage, it will act quickly and cooperate. After operating in the hinterland of the Eighteenth Army for so many days, it has long been swallowed and there is not even a dregs left.

You must know that at that time, the Mashiko Advance Team had revealed its whereabouts not long after entering the base area. It was only because the means of communication and liaison of the North China troops at that time were too backward, and the scale of the headquarters of the 18th Group Army was too large, and it was not only slow to act but also slow to react, that it seized the opportunity.

As for the fact that he and more than 2,000 troops of the 18th Group Army only slightly injured two people after a day of white-knuckle fighting, this's boast is even greater. At that time, the headquarters of the 18th Group Army, plus logistics, plus the party school of the Northern Bureau, as well as the personnel of the news and banks, were indeed more than this number.

However, even including the covering troops drawn from the 129th Division, all the combat units were added together. Even if all the guns were combined, I am afraid that there would not be 2,000 people. What's more, even if the troops were in chaos at that time, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was. More than 100 people fought with 2,000 people, and even if the opponent was a scarecrow, he couldn't lightly injure only two people.

More than 100 people fought a day-long white-knuckle battle with 2,000 troops, and after throwing out more than a dozen traitors who were basically ineffective, they could basically be said to be unscathed, not to mention that this Yizi advance team couldn't catch up with even half a scoop of water, and even the anti-United Nations special forces trained by Yang Zhen couldn't do it.

I'm afraid that eighty percent of the record of that Mashiko advancing team is to wipe smoke and powder on his face. Perhaps the troops of the Eighteenth Army at that time, and this small unit of the Japanese army, did not pay attention. In other words, when the heavy Japanese army was rapidly encircled, the main energy was focused on the main forces of the surrounding Japanese army. After fighting with this small Japanese army, I didn't pay attention to them.