Because of the emergence of the variable Kong Jie, the wings of the butterfly effect were fanned, forcing Okamura, an old devil, to step down early.
Okamura packed up his personal belongings at the headquarters with some dejection, and finally looked at the headquarters he had been with for many years. His mood was complicated and difficult to describe, and finally turned into a long sigh.
This time, the North China Front first launched an unprecedented scale of May Day raids, but ended in failure.
Then they suffered heavy losses in the air battle in Licheng, the Chengnan Airport was looted by the Eighth Route Army, and the large Japanese military airport in Shanghai suffered air attacks.
Under this series of setbacks, the person who ultimately bore the most responsibility was naturally Okamura, the commander-in-chief of the North China Front.
In addition to Okamura being transferred to Guadalcanal this time, the chief of staff, deputy chief of staff and officers at all levels of the North China Front were not temporarily transferred in order to stabilize the overall situation.
When Okamura left alone, the Japanese chief of staff brought the officers of the North China Front to see Okamura off.
The lonely Okamura didn't want to talk about sad topics. He spoke slowly, as if he was retelling what he had done since he became the commander-in-chief of the North China Front, and he seemed to be giving his final instructions.
“Since I took office, I have always advocated continuous sweeping operations to completely eliminate the remaining anti-Japanese armed forces, mainly the Eighth Route Army, in the imperial-occupied areas.
But in the end, they all failed. In the end, instead of successfully annihilating the Eighth Route Army, they actually allowed the Eighth Route Army to grow stronger while trying to survive in this crack.
This was a dereliction of duty on my part and an unforgivable fault on my part.
After this war is over, I think our army will be in a stalemate with the Eighth Route Army in North China for a long period of time.
Considering that the Eighth Route Army is growing stronger and our army is fighting endlessly in the Southeast Asian battlefield and the Pacific battlefield, there is an urgent need for stability in the North China rear area.
I think the operational policy of using large-scale raids to attack the Eighth Route Army base areas can be stopped here.
Since the failure of the May Day raids, it was destined that our army would no longer be able to use the mode of large-scale raids to completely wipe out the Eighth Route Army base areas and eliminate the Eighth Route Army's effective forces.
After I leave office, you should unite as one, change your policy, gather scattered troops from all walks of life, occupy major counties and towns, guard important communication lines, fight steadily, and have a final confrontation with the Chinese army, waiting for the changes in the Pacific and Southeast Asian battlefields. Can.
You must never be greedy for success and rush forward, rashly launching troops and taking the initiative to attack the Eighth Route Army base area..."
Okamura explained a lot in one breath, and compared to usual times, he seemed extra wordy.
This old devil is unwilling to give up... Even if he can stay in this position for a few more months, he is sure that he can completely stabilize the situation, regain strength, and then fight against the Eighth Route Army.
However, it was too late to say anything. Okamura was worried that after he left office, the new commander would underestimate the strength of the Eighth Route Army, leading to continued disastrous defeats for the North China Front Army.
This is why I have repeated entrustments and worries now.
"Okay, I won't say anything else. Everyone, for the sake of the empire and the holy war, please do your best to assist the newly arrived commander!"
After saying that, Okamura, with a lonely back, was escorted by the guards and officially left the headquarters and rushed to the airport, preparing to transfer back to the reserve force.
Soon after, in accordance with the order of the Japanese Military Headquarters, Naosaburo Okabe was reactivated and ordered to replace Okamura as the commander-in-chief of the North China Front. He maintained the security of the North China region and began to deal with the Eighth Route Army-based forces in the occupied areas. Anti-Japanese armed forces.
Naosaburo Okabe is two years younger than Okamura. Like Okamura, he graduated from the Japanese Army Military Academy and the Army University, and is considered Okamura's junior.
When it comes to learning based on real facts, this old devil still has something up his sleeve.
He even once believed that if he could lead the North China Front Army, he would even do better than his senior Okamura.
The extremely weak Chinese were just a mere Eighth Route Army unit struggling to survive in the occupied areas. How could they be the opponents of the mighty Japanese Empire?
In addition, in addition to having extremely high academic qualifications and excellent military qualities, this old Japanese also has considerable experience in leading troops.
Prior to that, he served as commander of the 1st Field Artillery Regiment of the Japanese Army, Chief of the Exercise Section of the Army General Staff Headquarters, Chief of Staff of the North China Front, Commander of the Garrison in Mongolia, President of the Army University, and Commander of the Third Front of the Kwantung Army.
When he served as the chief of staff of the North China Front, he was assisted by Juichi Terauchi, the first commander of the Japanese North China Front.
For the Japanese army's arrogant plan to destroy China in March.
This old devil especially strengthened his spy activities and created a combat strategy for the Japanese and puppet regime to invade China.
Okabe, an old devil, knew quite a bit about the affairs of the North China Front.
The Japanese military headquarters probably also considered that the Eighth Route Army in North China was gradually gaining momentum, and even the Chinese village of Tonggang was continuously defeated by the Eighth Route Army. Therefore, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the North China Front must be someone who has a special understanding of the situation in North China, and A commander with extraordinary talents.
Therefore, Naosaburo Okabe, who was originally the principal of the university but was actually somewhat depressed by being put on the back burner, was re-appointed and took up the post with honor.
It can be said that he was ordered to do so at a critical moment.
In order to particularly encourage Okabe's determination to lead the North China Front to suppress the Chinese anti-Japanese armed forces, the Japanese army also awarded him the rank of general.
Speaking of which, Okabe, an old devil, has to thank Okamura. If Okamura hadn't been defeated so quickly at the hands of the Eighth Route Army, how would he have been able to get Okabe to be re-appointed so quickly?
Of course, we need to dig deeper.
"Okabe Naosaburo, an old devil, has to thank us! If we hadn't made too much noise and driven away Okamura, an old devil, would it be his turn to take office?"
Within the headquarters of the first team, news came back from the intelligence line that the fourth commander-in-chief of the Japanese North China Front, Okamura Neiji, had officially resigned a few days ago and was transferred back to the reserve force.
Naosaburo Okabe took over as commander-in-chief of the Japanese North China Front.
Kong Jie said with a smile.
The newly appointed commander-in-chief of the North China Front, Naozaburo Okabe, is also an old rival of the Eighth Route Army.
So how to deal with old rivals?
Kong Jie pointed out: "As the saying goes, know yourself and the enemy and you will never be invincible in a hundred battles. Naosaburo Okabe is our old opponent. We know him, and he also knows our Eighth Route Army, but he knows our Eighth Route Army many years ago.
Now, if we want to deal with this old devil, on the one hand, we must continue to understand this old devil in depth and find his flaws.
On the other hand, we are going to create a maze and give this old devil an illusion. What illusion is it? Our Eighth Route Army is still the old opponent he was once familiar with.
To put it simply, you can give this old devil some sweetness.
To further stimulate the old devil's desire to fight, only by mobilizing the young devil can we find more loopholes for the devil to take action! "
Xu Guoan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately said with a smile, "Old Kong, I seem to understand your idea a little bit. I guess you want to deliberately defeat the Japanese when we fight with the Japanese after Okabe, the old Japanese, officially takes office. Several games.
For example, some of the counties, towns, and towns we captured were thrown to the little devils, including Licheng, Xiangyuan and other five cities that we just captured.
In this way, wouldn't Okabe, an old devil, be able to pat his chest and say with an arrogant face that the Eighth Route Army was nothing more than that? "
Ha ha ha ha--
"Old Xu, Old Xu, you still understand me!" Kong Jie laughed.
Xu Guoan then suddenly realized, "Old Kong, I finally understand why at the military meeting some time ago, when everyone was discussing whether to abandon Licheng, Xiangyuan and other five cities to the Japs again as planned, you said to wait a little longer. .
Emotionally, you are waiting for this old devil Okamura to step down.
I am not willing to lose even this little advantage to this old devil like Okamura! "
Kong Jie said: "This bastard Okamura, we didn't find a chance to kill him completely, even if this old boy is lucky.
Over the years, we have won battles one after another. We have continuously defeated the little devil and slapped the old devil in the face. We want to tear him to pieces all his so-called dignity of the empire and the face of the soldier.
Even the old devil's last fig leaf was torn off by him.
What I want is to give this old devil endless humiliation.
Otherwise, how can we be worthy of the thousands of our compatriots who sacrificed their lives at the hands of this executioner? "
"anyway."
"From a human perspective, the so-called three things a new official should do when he takes office is that Naosaburo Okabe has just taken over as the commander-in-chief of the North China Front. Once he takes office, the first person this old devil wants to compare to must be the previous commander-in-chief of the North China Front.
If Okamura continues to lose battles when he is in office, he will continue to suffer setbacks at our hands.
However, as soon as Okabe took office, he won successive battles and even captured five cities including Licheng and Xiangyuan.
In this way, while we are once again humiliating and attacking Okamura, we can also deliberately show weakness to the enemy and paralyze the judgment of this old devil Okabe. Maybe he really thinks that we are still the Eighth Route Army he was familiar with a few years ago!
Taking ten thousand steps back, even if we cannot completely fool the Japs, at least we can send a signal to the Japs by making concessions from Licheng, Xiangyuan and other five cities.
What signal?
——Our Eighth Route Army needs to rest and recuperate after successive battles, and there will be no military operations for the time being.
In this way, wouldn't it be very common sense for both sides to be in peace, rest and recuperate, and prepare to fight again? "
Xu Guoan came to his senses immediately and said with a smile: "I understand, I understand, haha, Lao Kong, what you mean is that we first release a false signal to the little devils and temporarily stop military operations.
Maybe it can't completely fool the Japanese army, but it can at least play the role of some fog bombs.
In this way, when we fully launch the autumn offensive, we will be able to catch him off guard to some extent! "
"That's the truth!" Kong Jie said with a smile, "Besides, after this series of high-intensity battles, our team does need some time to recuperate and accumulate strength for the autumn offensive in the near future. We are preparing in advance!"
"In addition, with the large amount of materials and equipment accumulated during the May 1st raids and the Licheng air battle, our team, troop construction and industrial development can also take a step closer.
Of course, these things follow the old rules, Lao Xu and Wenjie, this burden will be left to you! "
Kong Jie acted as the hands-off shopkeeper as usual.
Political Commissar Li Wenjie nodded in agreement without saying a word.
Xu Guoan smiled and joked: "I'm talking about Lao Kong, are you always a hands-off shopkeeper? What do you want to do with so much free time? Are you thinking of going back to accompany your new wife?"
"Bah, bah, bah!"
Kong Jie immediately retorted, "Our reputation has spread throughout northwest Shanxi, including Taihang and even Yan'an. Who doesn't know that I, Kong Jie, am a real person? Can I do that kind of thing?"
Busy, everyone is busy!
Lao Xu, do you think we are really a hands-off shopkeeper?
I'm much busier than you!
This time, after taking the leaders from Yan'an, including representatives from various militaries of various countries, to visit the industrial zone of our first team, there is still a series of business cooperation and various matters to be dealt with!
To develop the aviation force, we have to purchase materials from Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries, including production lines and some fighter planes.
In addition, I have to find a way to continue to expand our business chain. Commander Fu and Commander Tang happened to come over this time, and I have to have a good discussion with them about some business.
Which of these tasks does not consume time, and which task does not waste energy? "
Kong Jie's words were awe-inspiring, and as expected, even Xu Guoan was frightened.
"Lao Kong, so I really misunderstood you?"
"That misunderstanding is too deep!"
"Don't say anything anymore. It's my fault, Lao Kong. I'll treat you to a drink later and make amends to you!"
Just like that, Kong Jie, who claimed to be a busy man, sat on the stool at the headquarters without even sitting on it for a few minutes before he hurriedly left the headquarters and cheated Xu Guoan of a drink for nothing.
After leaving the headquarters, we went straight to work.
Go talk about business and plan the future development direction of a team!
Just walking, I somehow walked back to my small courtyard.
Cough cough cough——
As the saying goes, how can you sweep the world if you don’t sweep one house? If your wife doesn’t accompany you, what kind of man can you be?
Captain Kong came with a mission... Just after several battles, it was time to discuss how the next team should expand political propaganda.
And his wife is the backbone of the Propaganda Department!
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Peiping, the headquarters of the Japanese North China Front.
The headquarters is still the same headquarters, inside the house, the table is still the same table, the door is still the same door, and the furnishings in the house basically remain unchanged.
It's just that the person has been replaced.
Okamura, who was thin and looked unusually sinister and stern, was replaced by Japanese general Naosaburo Okabe, who had a long, flat head and a slight baldness on his head.
As the former chief of staff of the North China Front, Okabe was quite familiar with things on the North China front.
After taking over as the commander-in-chief of the North China Front, he immediately held a military meeting. He first met with military officers at all levels, and then summoned intelligence departments at all levels, especially emphasizing the need to speed up all aspects of intelligence collection.
Then, in order to clean up Okamura's mess, Okabe tried every means to mobilize troops from the country, supplement the battle losses, collect supplies from all parties, and enrich logistics.
He looked like he was ready for a big fight...
