"Your Excellency, Commander, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka telegraphed."
"read."
"The day before yesterday, our department intercepted an important letter from the senior officials of the Eighth Route Army and learned that their department may launch a large-scale military operation in the near future, targeting the Guo Army."
"oh?"
Jun Tada frowned after hearing such a piece of information.
Something doesn't feel right, and I can't pinpoint what exactly is wrong.
"Kasahara-kun, do you think this letter is reliable?"
"It seems to me that it should be true."
Kasahara Yu (yU four sounds, pronounced the same as jade), as the chief of staff, his task is to help the military commander clarify his thinking and directly point out his own point of view. After all, he is not directly responsible for major decisions.
"The red and white families have had a feud for a long time. Even if they are now in alliance, they are still in the same bed."
"At the end of last year, we just experienced the Shanxi Incident. This year, Shi Yousan, Zhang Yinwu, Zhu Huaibing and others have been in constant friction with the Eighth Route Army under Chiang's instruction."
"In these days, our army's cage policy has achieved remarkable results. Coupled with Chiang's campaign, they will really be completely destroyed if they don't take action."
"Our army is bound to be unable to resist, but the combat effectiveness of the Guo Army in Jin Province is obvious to both you and me."
"If it were me, I would never sit back and wait for death. I would just make a desperate move to gain a living space for myself."
Tada Shun sat on the chair, his face as sinking as water.
Kasahara Kagome's views can be said to be very representative of the thinking mode at the base camp.
They simply cannot see the importance of North China to the entire Chinese battlefield.
If the Eighth Route Army is allowed to gain a foothold in North China, it means that this kind of guerrilla warfare that destroys public security behind enemy lines will soon sweep through all Japanese-occupied areas.
By then, what if we can capture China's territory?
The Imperial Army, which has begun to be stretched thin, will inevitably be dragged to death in this quagmire.
"How many troops does the Eighth Route Army have in Jin?"
"Part of He's 120th Division, most of Liu's 129th Division, the regular army does not exceed 20,000, plus the militia and others, it is estimated that there will be less than 30 regiments."
Kasahara Emoji reported the information they had in detail.
Tada Shun looked at the map in a daze for a long time, and finally decided to ignore the actions of the Eighth Route Army and let the Chinese people suffer.
There is no doubt that for the Chinese, Jun Tada is indeed a difficult enemy.
He has always believed that excessive use of force should not be used to deal with issues in China.
This is exactly the opposite of his predecessor Sugiyama Moto.
As the first Japanese to propose "ruling China with China", he knew the benefits of using Chinese people to fight against Chinese people.
Anyway, the Eighth Route Army did not have many troops in Jin.
So what if this letter is their smoke bomb?
So what if they came for the Japanese army?
They lacked guns, ammunition, and no heavy weapons. It was sheer fantasy to break through the iron barrel formation they had set up.
Might as well show it to the old guys at the base camp who only know military medals and flattery.
North China is by no means as simple as a "security war".
If the Eighth Route Army is not completely eliminated, there will never be peace in the Japanese-occupied areas of China.
In this way, the Eighth Route Army openly assembled a large number of troops under the nose of the Japanese army.
The 10 regiments of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region are responsible for attacking the Pingding to Shijiazhuang section of the Zhengtai Line.
The 129th Division dispatched 8 regiments and one battalion of the headquarters artillery regiment to attack and pacify the Yuci section.
Six regiments of the 120th Division attacked the northern section of the Tongpu Railway and guarded the Yangqu direction to prevent enemy reinforcements.
Everything is the same as the history Zhu Han knows well.
At 20:00 on August 20, 1940.
As red flares soared into the sky.
The dense explosions even covered up the charge that resounded all over the mountains and plains.
The North China Plain has ushered in the largest modern war since human beings began to have written records.
The first one to bear the brunt is Niangziguan, located in northeastern Shanxi.
There has been no fighting since October 1937 when it was occupied by the Japanese army.
Two days ago, the puppet troops found traces of the Eighth Route Army here many times, but every time the Japanese troops attacked, they always failed, and it was the same today.
Just when the captain had just disbanded the troops and was preparing to rest, he saw dazzling flares all over the sky.
From all directions, rifles, submachine guns and soldiers' shouts of killing immediately rang out.
The Eighth Route Army on the ground poured into this important pass famous for Princess Pingyang's Detachment of Women like stars in the sky.
Most of the enemies who had not yet reacted were immediately killed or wounded.
Originally, there were four bunkers here. It would be really difficult if the enemy huddled inside.
But now, due to the Eighth Route Army's tired enemy tactics, all the Japanese here were caught off guard before they could enter the "turtle shell".
Their greatest reliance has all become a decoration.
In just three hours, the fifth regiment of the Fourth Army Division captured all the fortifications on the top of the mountain.
Although there were twists and turns in the process, at noon the next day, this dangerous pass that had not been defended after more than 20 days of fierce fighting during the Taiyuan Battle and the cost of 27,000 Chinese military casualties changed hands again.
And this is just the prelude to the Hundred Regiment War.
Nie Shuai divided the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region into three groups: upper, middle and lower.
The section from Pingding to Shijiazhuang is the most important part of the Hundred Regiment War.
The Central Route Army is the top priority.
There is no other reason, just four words - Jingxing Coal Mine.
This is one of the three most important coal mines for the Japanese in China.
In the 29 years from 1908 to 1936, the Japanese mined 8.1288 million tons of coal from here.
From November 1, 1937 to August 15, 1945, in just 8 years, the Japs' mining volume here exceeded the total of the past 23 years, reaching 8.27845 million tons.
The reason why they can do all this is not because they have more efficient mining technology or large machinery.
It was an inhumane policy proposed by the Japanese—exchanging people for coal.
After liberation, 6 mass graves were discovered here alone, and 46,000 bones could be identified.
A large amount of this coal was transported by the Japanese to the Shijiazhuang Refinery, which strongly supported the Japanese's foreign aggression.
In other words, with the current international status where the Japanese are hated by everyone, China's resources are not only the confidence for its external clamor, but also the basis for its survival.
Even with the current scale of plunder, the Japs' resources are still stretched thin.
Therefore, once it is hit in this regard, whether it is the deployment of Japanese troops stationed in China or the overall policy of the Japanese base camp, it will affect the whole body.
It can be said that the Eighth Route Army's pole hit the enemy within seven inches of the poisonous snake.
Jingxing Coal Mine is divided into two mining areas, the old and the new.
As the enemy's thorn in the side, the Japanese built a wall more than one foot high here, and there were trenches and electric grids outside the wall.
There are 19 bunkers of various sizes in the wall.
At the same time, on the mining highland to the north, there are four other bunkers overlooking the entire mining area.
Once there is any disturbance in the mining area, the tongues of fire spouting from the four bunkers will immediately kill countless our soldiers.
Although there are only more than 100 Japanese in the new mining area that bears the brunt, it is very tightly defended, with 9 bunkers here.
This modern coal mine, fully equipped with Sandoku equipment, should have been brightly lit all night long.
But as the battle time came, the guerrillas who had been prepared cut off all the wires in the periphery at the first time.
The entire mine immediately fell into darkness.
When the lights go out, it's the Charge.
At the moment when the Japanese were stunned, the artillery soldiers, who had already memorized Zhu Yuan by heart, had already put the mortar shells into the barrel.
With a few muffled sounds, the shells landed accurately in the courtyard.
Although there were not many direct casualties, it also suffocated the momentum of the Japanese who were still rushing out of the dormitory building.
The engineers took advantage of this precious time to rush to the barbed wire fence.
According to the original history, the soldiers had to wrap the hilts of their knives with basketball linings and cut open the power grid.
But the difference is that this time only a few engineers rushed forward with an iron pipe more than one meter long.
Since it was an operation of the Eighth Route Army, how could Zhu Han not help.
The two military regions are too far apart and transportation is inconvenient.
It is not cost-effective to allocate limited transportation capacity to rifles and bullets.
The so-called good steel should be used on the blade.
In the confrontation between the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese bunkers, Zhu Han knew only too well the shortcomings of our army.
Therefore, the most lacking shortcomings can always be accurately filled.
Anyway, we have a lot of iron pipes, stuff them with high explosives, install a fuse, and a blasting tube is ready.
Basically it has no impact on the overall planning of the factory.
Then I saw a few people unscrew the back cover, pull the string and push the blasting tube under the power grid.
Five seconds later, several huge explosions sounded at the same time.
Dust was flying all over the sky.
The original barbed wire fence was centered on the blast point and twisted to both sides.
The gap just formed several passages wide for two people.
"Come on!"
Following the order, countless warriors surged up like ocean waves.
