Brigadier Zhang continued: "Our new cement factory has started construction. While building roads, we are also building fortifications in the frontline mountains. The troops are constantly gathering for mountain offensive and defensive drills.
This year's grain harvest is good. With the grain support from Commander Fu and the canned meat support from the Northward Detachment, the soldiers are all well-fed and well-trained, and they are holding back their energy to attack Taiyuan City again.
Especially once our steel plants and special steel smelting plants start mass production, we first imitate large artillery shells, the Type 45 150mm heavy cannon, the Canadian 120mm cannon, the Type 89 150mm cannon, the Type 96 150mm heavy cannon equipped by the heavy artillery force directly under the military region mm howitzer, Type 38 150 mm howitzer, Type 91 105 mm howitzer, Type 92 105 mm cannon, Type 97 150 mm mortar, and Type II 120 mm mortar have all been repaired and maintained.
With the shells, we pulled up to fight the Japanese, and let the little Japanese taste the feeling of being bombed.
We have already calibrated all the fortifications in the west of the Japs City, and are waiting for the headquarters to order thousands of artillery fire to give the Japs a surprise.
This does not include our 75-caliber artillery, small-caliber flat-firing guns, and mortars. In the past, we had more gas and less steel. Now we also have steel, and cannons are used to export bad gas to us. "
The big leader heard the first one applauding and said: "Okay, that's great! What a cannon to make our angry sound. The troops brought out by Lao He are amazing, amazing."
The venue immediately applauded enthusiastically and the atmosphere became more lively.
Captain Song was even more happy and said: "Old Zhang, it seems that Harada has sent a lot of good things outside Taiyuan City. When will you lend me these heavy artillery pieces? Lao Yang and I have been investigating Zhangjiakou for a long time, watching every day." The Japanese are expanding their industrial scale, which makes me feel itchy!"
Brigadier Zhang smiled and said: "It's easy to talk! If you need it anytime, as long as it's convenient, we will support you at any time!"
"That's great!"
Then Staff Officer Zhou of the 129th Division spoke on behalf of the units of the 129th Division: "The main force of the 129th Division has crossed the Pinghan-Han Railway ahead of schedule; among them, the main force of the New 1st Brigade has arrived at the fifth division, and the main force of the fifth division has been led by Lao Pi and has gone south to join the Yangbu base in northern Henan. Now, we can cooperate with the northern Henan base area to fight against PY's 4th Cavalry Brigade at any time.
The 386th Brigade Headquarters has also moved eastward to Jizhong, preparing to secretly approach Baoding, and is ready to launch a battle with the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei troops in the Baoding area.
At the same time, the Qin Department and the Fan Department of the New Tenth Brigade in the first division near SJZ, when the Japanese mobilized reinforcements to other places in SJZ and HD, came back with a black tiger to take out the enemy's lair in one fell swoop.
The 385th Brigade also assembled in central Hebei near Cangzhou to prepare for the attack on eastern Hebei. Some time ago, Commander Wang personally led the team to conduct a reconnaissance in the Cangzhou area. I will ask him to introduce the situation in detail later.
The Iron Triangle Forces have secretly assembled in southern Hebei and are proceeding as planned. Among them, Ding Wei's troops are ready to pretend to attack Liaocheng and then go to the Tengzhou and Huxi anti-Japanese base areas.
Li Yunlong's troops also moved closer to Jizhong, preparing a feint attack on Jinan, passing through the Binzhou area, opening up the road to the Jiaodong Peninsula, and destroying all the upcoming winter raids by the Japanese.
Kong Jie's main force served as a reserve force, waiting to disrupt the Japanese position and directly penetrate Wei County on the Jiaodong Peninsula again. "
The Japanese army plotted a sneak attack on the Jiaodong base area.
"The little devil's plan was very good, but unfortunately it was destined to be in vain. We want to let the devil have a taste of what it means to steal a chicken but lose a lot of rice.
By then, the Japs in the Jiaodong base area will be unable to be defeated, and Taiyuan City will also have to be lost.
After this battle, the little devil was exhausted, and it was time for the new Naosaburo Okabe to calm down! "
The deputy commander-in-chief's speech was domineering and leaky.
The commanders agreed that they were taking advantage of the Japanese's apparent relaxation of control in Shandong and the continuous sneak attacks by the air force to plot against the Jiaodong base.
It was also the perfect time for the Eighth Route Army to raid Taiyuan City.
In these days, the Japanese army deliberately set off smoke bombs to replenish their troops, recuperate and suspend fighting with the Eighth Route Army, and even encouraged subordinate troops to conduct trade with the Eighth Route Army.
The Eighth Route Army was setting off smoke bombs. It was also paralyzing the Japanese army's judgment and announcing that various base areas were temporarily undergoing renovations.
The abandonment of Licheng, Xiangyuan and other five cities, as well as the active retreat of various communication lines, sent a signal to the Japanese army that the Eighth Route Army was temporarily resting and unwilling to continue fighting with the Japanese army.
Who could have guessed that at this juncture, the Eighth Route Army would do nothing but make a surprise move. While reinforcing the Jiaodong base area, it would also prepare to capture Taiyuan City?
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Peiping, the Japanese North China Front Headquarters, Commander-in-Chief Naosaburo Okabe is leading his staff to study the war situation in the war room.
Speaking of recent measures to relax controls in Shandong, Okabe asked:
"What was the reaction from the Eighth Route Army?"
The Japanese chief of staff replied: "General, the Eighth Route Army seems to have been fooled. There is no special movement. After we relaxed the control, the Eighth Route Army also increased its trade with our army."
Okabe nodded, he had great ambitions, "The private trade with the Eighth Route Army can also relieve our army's logistical and food pressure to a certain extent.
On the other hand, it can paralyze the judgment of the Eighth Route Army and cover our army's raid plan against the Eighth Route Army's Jiaodong base area.
In addition, through business dealings with the Eighth Route Army, we can try to understand the distribution of their forces and the defense deployment of the base areas, so as to accumulate intelligence in advance for our empire's subsequent operations. "
"Hi! Your Excellency, General, is wise!"
Gumbu smiled. He dared not say whether he was wise or not, but in just two weeks since he came to power, the entire North China Front Army could be said to have taken on a new look. The morale of the army has been stabilized again, and the security and stability of the important occupied areas have also been further strengthened.
In comparison, he thought he was much better than his senior, Okamura Neito.
Talking about my senior.
Okabe suddenly asked curiously: "I don't know how Okamura-senpai is doing."
...At this time, if you look at it through time and space with God's vision.
Guadalcanal is the island of Guadalcanal.
The Allied forces, dominated by the US military, and the Japanese army have launched a new round of confrontation, and a war that was later referred to as the Battle of Guadalcanal broke out.
The highest military commander on the Japanese side in this battle was Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet. This old devil was bent on wiping out the shame of the defeat at Midway and seizing the initiative in the Pacific War. He planned to first attack Guadalcanal. Build an aviation base, send aviation forces forward to cover the follow-up attack, and then gradually advance to the southeast to attack the important bases of the enemy and allies in the South Pacific.
In order to regain the strategic initiative, the Guadalcanal Battle was launched.
Needless to say, naval confrontations were Admiral Yamamoto’s area of expertise.
What Yamamoto did not expect was that just before he was preparing to launch the Guadalcanal Campaign, the headquarters actually parachuted an army commander, General Okamura, to him.
At this time, Okamura Ningji had just suffered a defeat on the North China Front, retired from the position of commander-in-chief of the North China Front Army, and was transferred to Guadalcanal to command the army operations.
Somewhat lonely.
As the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Yamamoto also played a major role in the surprise attack on the US military at Pearl Harbor. It was a time of high spirits.
The two pale in comparison.
In addition, the Japanese military system at that time was divided like this. The highest organs of the army were the Army Ministry, the General Staff Headquarters, and the Training Headquarters.
Okamura Neiji's highest rank at this time was only the commander-in-chief of the North China Front.
The highest organs of the Japanese Navy are the Navy Ministry, the Naval Command and the Combined Fleet.
As the commander-in-chief of the combined fleet, Yamamoto completely suppresses Okamura in his position.
Not only that, after Yamamoto graduated from the Japanese Naval University, he also studied abroad at Harvard for three years. He came back gold-plated, and his ability in military command is definitely no less than Okamura.
Okamura began to participate in combat directly after graduating from the Army Sergeant School.
Therefore, Yamamoto was originally very dissatisfied when he learned that Okamura was transferred to Guadalcanal.
In his opinion, all of his army commanders are elites, no less qualified than Okamura, the former commander-in-chief of the North China Front who came through air conditioning.
After all, the high-spirited Yamamoto somewhat looked down upon the army commander in front of him who had lost the battle and was actually beaten by a mere Tubal guerrilla force. He lost his official position and was transferred to Guadalcanal in embarrassment.
Okamura, who arrived at Rengua Island, was also filled with anger.
When we were in the North China Front, we suffered a lot from the defeat of the Eighth Route Army. How could we know that when we arrived at Guadalcanal, people still looked down upon us with cold eyes.
In the end, it was under such circumstances that the Battle of Guadalcanal officially broke out.
Throughout the battle, one side was the Allied forces led by the U.S. military, and the other side was the invading force headed by the Japanese army. Both sides launched an all-round operation involving the army, air force, and navy.
Among them, needless to say, the naval and air force operations are under the full command of Yamamoto.
The army is commanded by Okamura, the former commander of the North China Front who was airborne.
At this point, Okamura's opponent, the Allied forces, which are dominated by the US military, immediately mocked Yamamoto after learning about the origin of the opponent's army commander, General Okamura.
"I heard that he was a Japanese commander who couldn't even defeat the Eighth Route Armed Forces in China. Is such a person worthy of being our opponent?"
"I heard that those Chinese Eighth Route Army troops even had to go to the battlefield with red cherry guns and broadswords!"
"The Japanese army has declined to the point where it needs someone like this to take command?"
After the Battle of Guadalcanal officially broke out.
The U.S. warships covering the formation began to shell the Japanese positions on Guadalcanal, and then carrier-based aircraft taking off from the aircraft carriers flew to Guadalcanal and carried out violent bombing and strafing.
Yamamoto Isoroku organized a counterattack with naval and air force forces.
The two sides launched a fierce competition, more like showing off their respective industrial and military strength.
Almost all the Japanese army's attention was attracted to this first confrontation.
Okamura, who temporarily served as the army commander, discerned the hidden cunning intentions of the US military in this heated first confrontation.
He speculated that the US military was just bluffing, and the confrontation in front of them must be to cover the secret landing. If the US military wanted to seize control of Guadalcanal, the landing of marine troops was the only way.
Okamura is very familiar with this tactic of spreading suspicion and attacking in the east.
The Eighth Route Army in the occupied areas are good at this.
The Americans who rely on their well-equipped equipment but ignore tactics are still far behind in this regard!
Okamura, who was aware of this intention, immediately led a group of elite troops in person and secretly transferred and deployed them in the direction of the river beach where the US military was most likely to land.
At that time, he was preoccupied with the battle between the Navy and the Air Force, and coupled with his preconceived dissatisfaction with Okamura, Yamamoto did not discern the intentions of the US military.
I learned that Okamura would take away all the elites at this juncture.
Yamamoto Isoroku was so angry that he cursed and claimed that he would send Okamura back the same way.
As everyone knows, with the support of naval artillery and aviation firepower, the first wave of U.S. landing troops has begun to land secretly. The commander of the 5th U.S. Marine Regiment was the first to rush to the beach. The troops followed closely behind, quickly landed and then took control of the coast. And immediately developed in depth and tried to advance according to the predetermined combat plan.
At this time, what does the direction of the river beach look like according to Yamamoto's original plan?
Since the Japanese military did not expect that the United States would secretly land in this way of attacking the east and attacking the west,
At this time, the Japanese troops on the riverbank were completely unprepared, and most of them were engineers, including Korean laborers sent by the Japanese army to help build the airport.
This unit did not carry many weapons at all, was not an elite Japanese army, and did not have much combat effectiveness.
There are no solid fortifications in the direction of the river beach, it is completely an open land open to attack.
In this way, the success of the landing operation far exceeded the U.S. military's expectations.
After a large number of U.S. troops quickly landed, only a small number of Japanese security forces did not dare to resist at all, and fled into the jungle in a panic.
This all proves that the Japanese army has almost no defense in the direction of Hetan Airport. They did not expect that the US military would suddenly land in this direction from this direction.
In the end, the US military successfully landed ashore without even firing a shot.
The colonel leading the team loudly mocked the Japanese army's incompetence and stupidity.
First, he cursed Yamamoto Isoroku, and then satirized the so-called General Okamura, who was transferred from the Japanese army in North China, as just a bunch of rabble.
And are things really going so smoothly?
Many years of confrontation with the tactically shrewd, powerful and cunning Eighth Route Army troops in the occupied areas have already tortured this old devil Okamura into an absolute expert in mountain warfare, guerrilla warfare, and jungle warfare, with keen military sense and astonishing insight. Actual combat commander.
Since Okamura was aware of the U.S. military's intention to secretly land in advance, how could he not make preparations?
Not only that.
This old devil has a huge appetite. In addition, from the commander of the North China Front to his current transfer to Guadalcanal, he was first in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, and then in the hands of the Japanese army in Guadalcanal, including Yamamoto Isoroku and his group of officers. Humiliated, I had already suppressed my anger.
When he led his elite troops to the vicinity of Hetan Airport.
Subordinate officers proposed to immediately strengthen defense deployment to guard against enemy landings.
In Okamura's mind, a series of actions by the Eighth Route Army to lure the enemy deep and ambush the imperial troops emerged. He slowly shook his head, and the words he spoke immediately made the subordinate Japanese officers shudder.
"No, deploying defenses in advance can only repel these US troops!"
"And we are here not only to defeat the enemy, but also to completely eliminate the enemy. Let's turn this place into a large slaughterhouse. Let all the US troops who have landed come in, sit on the river beach area, and then start slaughtering. I think it’s going to be a killing fest!”
Okamura, who had been holding back his anger, just wanted to vent.
He wished he could tear these hateful enemies to pieces.
He clenched his fists and roared in his heart. If he couldn't kill the cunning Eighth Route Army, couldn't he also kill you American troops who landed stupidly?
that's all.
In the sight of the Japanese forward observation post, a large number of US troops successfully landed and gradually advanced from the river beach area.
After two hours, it was estimated that seven to eight thousand US troops had successfully landed on Guadalcanal.
However, the supreme commander Okamura on the side was still waiting with a calm expression and did not issue a combat order.
Although all the surrounding artillery and machine guns have been set up, and the troops responsible for cutting off the US military's retreat and destroying the US landing warships are all ready, this place has already been turned into a large-scale slaughterhouse made of countless local flesh and blood mills that are difficult to move. field……
(End of chapter)
