The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Okamura's loud words were like a heavy hammer, hitting Shunroku Hata's heart one blow after another.

This insight and analysis is even more penetrating.

In the end, Shunroku Hata's psychological defense only lasted for a moment before it was completely shaken.

As Okamura said, the original overwhelming situation of the imperial forces in the Pacific battlefield has gradually turned into a disadvantage. The battlefields in Southeast Asia have also begun to experience operational disadvantages. The Chinese battlefield has never ended. The empire, which fights on multiple fronts, cannot make ends meet and is about to be defeated. Completely brought down by the war.

The Japanese Empire has almost reached its end.

If you don't struggle, you will definitely lose!

A desperate fight, maybe there is an opportunity!

In a high position, as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Forces, when did Shunroku Hata become so cowardly and fearful that he did not even dare to launch a battle against the Chinese army?

After condemning himself in his heart, he looked up again. There was obviously more sparkle in Hata Shunroku's eyes, "Okamura-kun, please tell me your battle plan in detail!"

"Hi!"

Okamura was immediately overjoyed, and immediately took out the battle plan he had prepared long ago, and said loudly: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, this is the No. [-] battle plan I specially prepared."

According to Gangcun's plan.

“The combat area of ​​Operation No. 1500 starts from Henan, passes through Hunan, Guangxi and other places, and then to French Indochina and Guangdong, running through mainland China and is expected to be more than [-] kilometers long.

The overall operational plan is divided into two parts. The first part is an operation in North China around the Peking-Hankou Line, with the goal of thoroughly penetrating the Peking-Hankow Line and suppressing the surrounding anti-Japanese armed forces. I call it the Peking-Hankou Operation. .

The second part is the operations in Central China and South China, which I call the "Hunan-Guangxi Operation" and the "Bu" Operation respectively. The specific operational plan is as follows..."

When he later commanded the newly formed Japanese Sixth Front Army to deploy the No. [-] combat plan, in order to completely paralyze his opponents, Okamura also specifically asked all commanding officers under his command to keep their identities strictly confidential, and the external code name was "No. [-]."

Looking at the military map in front of him, which showed the various forces with different arrows, Okamura's eyes finally settled on the area belonging to the Eighth Route Army base area, especially the Taihang base area, the core base of the Eighth Route Army.

His face gradually turned cold, and he slowly spoke, muttering to himself:
"Damn Eighth Route Army, bastard Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, when you know that the number one commander is me, Okamura Neiji, I think you will be very surprised!
Sooner or later, I will take back the humiliation you have inflicted on me step by step.

Don't worry, wait until I capture Changsha and penetrate the transportation lines in mainland China, then I can concentrate on taking care of you! "

……

Ah sneeze, inside the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army Special Experiment Zone, Li Yunlong sneezed inexplicably, rubbed his nose, looked around suspiciously, and then cursed and said: "Damn it, what bastard is thinking about me behind my back? ?”

Kong Jie also sneezed a few times, smiled and joked: "Yes, he even thinks about me!"

Ding Wei came over from the side with a map and said happily: "Come on, it's just the two of you. Who else can miss you except the little devil?"

Li Yunlong said: "That's not necessarily the case. Lao Kong and I have wives. In addition to the little devil, the wife also has to worry about him all the time. Unlike you, Old Ding, who is a bachelor, probably only the little devil will worry about him!"

"I said, Lao Li, why do you always..."

"You're a bachelor!"

"Li Yunlong..."

"You're a bachelor!"

"I……"

"What am I? You are a bachelor!" Li Yunlong said in three consecutive attacks.

"..." Ding Wei fell silent knowingly.

cough cough-

After coughing a few times, Kong Jie brought the topic back on track. This old Li was obviously much happier than usual since he and Xiu Qin lived a happy life without shame.

"Let's get down to business. News came from the Jidong Military Region that some of the Inoue Armored Division, which was originally advancing in the western Mongolian area, has advanced towards Jidong.

It seems that the old devil Inoue cannot find Commander Fu in the Mongolian area for a decisive battle, and cannot break through the defense of the 35th Route Army. This is why he decided to temporarily abandon the 35th Route Army and go south, and deal with our Eighth Route Army first! "

Ding Weidao: "The Jidong Military Region has developed well in recent years, and we have also specially reinforced some anti-tank guns from the past, as well as specially built anti-tank border fortifications under the guidance of our relevant instructors.

It is impossible to defeat the Japanese armored forces, but it should be no problem to withstand the attack of the Japanese tank troops and at least defend the core base. "

"The current situation is almost as what Lao Ding said." Kong Jie nodded, and then pointed out on the map: "But my suggestion is that the Jidong side can deliberately let go of the defense line and destroy the Japanese mobile armored force. Let it in."

"Lao Kong, are you worried that once our Iron Triangle Army is dispatched, the Kwantung Army will definitely come back to rescue if there is a fire in the backyard, but this Japanese army is not deep within our defense zone and may withdraw at any time?" Ding Wei said.

Kong Jie did not deny it, but he was also worried.

"But once the Japanese armored forces are released past the defense line, it is equivalent to releasing a tiger in our area. All friendly troops in our base areas may be attacked by the tiger at any time!"

Ding Wei said: "For the plan of sending troops to the north, what else can be done?
Fortunately, our various base areas have developed well in recent years, especially the defense construction of the core base areas, which is very stable. It is just putting the Japanese armored forces into the central and outer defense zones.

If we provide reminders to each base area in advance, I guess there won't be much of a problem. "

"That's all we can do!"

Li Yunlong, who had been studying the situation map nearby, suddenly said: "Lao Kong, Lao Ding, come and take a look. I suddenly discovered a problem. I wonder if you have noticed it. The number of Japanese troops in Changsha seems to have increased during this period. Quite a few.

I was aware of this situation a few days ago. The news returned from our intelligence network at that time said that the Japanese troops in various defense zones in Central China seemed to have signs of mobilization. After investigation by our relevant intelligence personnel, we found that these Japanese troops seemed to be in the area. Move closer to Changsha.

What does this indicate?
This shows that the Japanese are very likely to make some big move near Changsha. "

"Is it possible that the Japs are preparing to launch another campaign to capture Changsha?" Ding Wei expressed hesitation, "Xi'an and Yan'an are in a state of chaos. The Battle of Western Hubei is not over yet. Even our base areas have all been attacked by Japanese troops of varying sizes. blockade and attack.

If they attack Changsha again now, what exactly do the little devils want to do?Is it possible to launch a decisive battle in advance? "

These words reminded Kong Jie, and Kong Jie was stunned. He thought, no, this is so exaggerated?

If the Fourth Battle of Changsha really breaks out... this is too early! "But if the Japs really want to send troops to Changsha, it is not impossible. The Japs have never given up on seizing Changsha. They have launched three operations to capture Changsha in recent years, but they all failed in the end.

Especially in the third battle of Changsha, more than 11 Japs were wiped out. The battle was simply earth-shattering.

Speaking of which, Chiang Kai-shek's army has not won many battles since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. Among them, the one we admire most is the third Battle of Changsha! "

Ding Wei changed the topic. While feeling emotional, he also said that if the Japanese army wanted to attack Changsha, it might not be impossible.

This is more than impossible.

It’s simply too possible!
Ding Wei's words were a revelation to Kong Jie.

Since due to some butterfly effect, the battles in western Hubei broke out early.

The little devils clearly wanted to deal with the easier-to-deal with Chiang Kai-shek first. After plundering strategic resources, they would then turn around and concentrate their forces to deal with the Eighth Route Army. So it was quite reasonable to launch the Changsha Battle in advance, capture Changsha, and plunder strategic resources. .

"No, Lao Li, Lao Ding, I think our guess is very likely to come true. We must seize the time to report the matter to the headquarters, and especially convey the news to the Chiang Kai-shek troops in the Ninth Theater. No matter what the final result is, , what we should do is not to fall behind!"

Ding Wei and Li Yunlong also realized the seriousness of the problem.He immediately nodded in agreement.

Time goes on.

The chaotic battle between all parties is still raging.

For the Japanese army, the offensive progress of all parties was as smooth as expected.

The Kwantung Army secretly mobilized, and the three armies moved south smoothly. After fully emerging, they caught the Chinese army by surprise.

Even the always-difficult Eighth Route Army's external defense forces were beaten back steadily, and a large number of positions and defense lines were completely lost.

This made Okabe, Hata Junroku and others who commanded the entire battle feel a bad breath.

If the goal of this battle was not to penetrate the mainland's communication lines and destroy the construction foundation of the Eighth Route Army's base areas, these old devils would like to take advantage of their advantage and wipe out all the Eighth Route Army's effective forces in one fell swoop.

After breaking through the external defenses of the Eighth Route Army base areas, the Japanese army, which was now short of resources, did not dare to waste any resources. Instead of continuing to attack in depth, they quickly harvested early rice and wheat from the farmland of the Eighth Route Army base areas. such crops.

The Japanese army, which was arrogant in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, actually considered the growth of crops at this time before launching this offensive.

According to the plan of Hata Junroku, Okabe and other old devils.

At this point in time, those early-maturing crops are almost ready for summer harvest, but they have not yet completely reached the Eighth Route Army's summer harvest season, so they are just in time to harvest.

The plundered food and other materials can also be used as ration supplies for frontline combat troops.

Wishful thinking is very loud.

However, the Eighth Route Army was superior in skills and had long expected that the Japs had this skill. In addition, the Eighth Route Army's important granary base areas such as the Jizhong Military Region and the Special Experimental Zone had a large number of agricultural harvesters prepared in advance to harvest.

No matter how powerful this little devil is, there is no way he can beat a machine with his two hands.

Just like that, according to the intelligence that the little devils had detected, the farmland that was covered with large crops two days ago, after the Japanese army spent a lot of money to completely attack it two days later, looking around, only empty fields were left. In the farmland, all the crops seemed to have disappeared, leaving only the neatly cut wheat and rice rhizomes.

Only then did the Japanese realize that the Eighth Route Army had developed to the point where it could use mechanized equipment to harvest crops.

In the end, the Japanese finally broke through the external defense line of the Eighth Route Army base area, but found nothing.

As for some of the more core Eighth Route Army base areas, according to the orders of the Japanese Army Command, this time the focus was not to provoke, and the Eighth Route Army could be compressed within the core base areas.

However, there were also Kwantung Army officers who did not believe in evil and led their troops to try to launch an attack on the core base of the Eighth Route Army.

The result is...

After losing troops and returning in disastrous defeat, these foreign officers learned to be honest and finally realized how stupid it was to attack the core base of the Eighth Route Army.

...The Japanese army hit a wall in the Eighth Route Army base area, but lost the east corner and gained the mulberry elm. They achieved initial victory in the battle in western Hubei and the offensive launched from several directions on the frontal battlefield. They took the opportunity to plunder a large number of strategic resources, including various supplies, equipment, manpower, etc.

At this time, Okamura, who was sitting at the headquarters of the Sixth Front Army, couldn't help but sigh after taking in all the news from the front line.

He is indeed the most difficult opponent.

These damn Eighth Route Army actually grew stronger during the time he went to Guadalcanal. Facing the joint operations of the Kwantung Army and Chinese troops, they were able to firmly hold on to their roots without defeat.

In this way, it is such a wise strategy to first attack places such as Western Hubei and Changsha, defeat the Central Army, and then turn around to deal with the Eighth Route Army!

At this time, among the Kwantung Army going south, the largest Yamashita Fengwen Assault Corps, led by Lao Guizi Yamashita, was unstoppable along the way. After turning around and almost taking Yan'an, it quickly took the plundered massive strategic resources. Go south.

Soon after, the arrogant Yamashita Laoji led his so-called Jihad Army to push straight into Chongqing, and started a fierce battle with the Central Army of Chongqing's border guards. In less than a day's battle, he broke through more than a dozen positions.

This move completely shocked the entire Sino-Japanese battlefield.

The Central Army even made a misjudgment in a panic, believing that the Japanese army was really heading for the Chongqing base camp.

At the same time, the old Japanese warrior Neiji Okamura, who seized the opportunity and claimed to be the "No. 30 Commander", officially issued an order to launch the No. [-] combat plan, gathering nearly [-] troops to launch a sudden attack in the Changsha area.

The third Battle of Changsha officially broke out.

This sudden change in the situation exceeded Jiang Jun's expectations.

Although before that, after Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei reported to the headquarters about the possibility of the Japanese army launching operations in Changsha, the Eighth Route Army headquarters also gave a special reminder to the general troops in the Ninth Theater.

But the situation at that time was that the officers of the Chiang Kai-shek Army in the Ninth Theater believed that although the Japanese army might launch a fourth Changsha Battle, they might not have the courage to attack again after experiencing the painful lessons of the first three Changsha Battles.

Therefore, when the Japanese troops showed up in large numbers, the officers of the Chiang Kai-shek Army stationed in the Ninth Theater in the Changsha area were a little dumbfounded...

(End of this chapter)