Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

"General!"

Yamamoto Kazuki walked into Shinozuka Kazuo's office with his head down, not daring to look directly at Shinozuka Kazuo.

When Shinozuka Kazuo saw Yamamoto Ikki, he immediately said, "This isn't the image I had of Yamamoto-kun. He's a pillar of the imperial army, very confident, not dejected like a loser."

Hearing what Shinozuka Kazuo said, Yamamoto Kazuki suddenly raised his head and looked at Shinozuka Kazuo: "General, this failure is all my fault. Please punish me!"

"No, this time it's not your fault. There's a problem with our intelligence. There's actually a spy in my confidential secretariat who sold the intelligence about your planned operation to the Chinese!"

These words helped Yamamoto Ikki recover from his previous loss. With anger in his eyes, he said, "I will kill him myself! He caused dozens of warriors, who were trained at great expense by the Empire, to die in vain!"

"I have already executed him. I came to you to tell you something else!"

Kazuo Shinozuka comforted Kazuki Yamamoto and took out a plan.

Chapter 21: Shinozuka Kazuo's Ambition, Reorganizing the Yamamoto Special Forces

The allegation that the confidential secretary was a spy was a charge arranged by Kazuo Shinozuka. No matter what, someone must be held responsible for the defeat of Yamamoto's special forces.

The Yamamoto Special Forces was formed by Kazuo Shinozuka despite opposition from many people and pressure from the headquarters. If they suffered a crushing defeat in the first battle and no one took the blame, Kazuo Shinozuka would definitely be held accountable.

So someone had to be found to take the blame, and Kazuo Shinozuka, who had always suspected that there was a problem with the Confidential Secretariat, simply disposed of the entire Confidential Secretariat and replaced a group of people.

In addition, Shinozuka Kazuo called Yamamoto Kazuki not only to hold him accountable, but also to give Yamamoto Kazuki a chance to prove himself again. Only in this way could Shinozuka Kazuo save face in front of the headquarters and prove that the Yamamoto special forces that he had trained with great expense were not wrong. Only then would he have the possibility to go one step further and become the Minister of the Army.

"How long will it take to establish the new Yamamoto team?"

Yamamoto's Special Forces has three combat teams plus Yamamoto Ikki's command team, totaling eighty people. But in addition to these eighty people, there are also reserve personnel. When selecting personnel from the First Army, a total of two hundred qualified soldiers were selected for training.

These two hundred people adopt the last-in-first-out system, and an assessment is conducted every three months. The team with the worst performance will be replaced and replaced by reserve personnel.

This is a method Yamamoto Ikki learned from Munich, which can motivate the soldiers.

For the reserve members of the Yamamoto team, once they are able to officially serve in the Yamamoto team, their various treatments will be significantly improved, so they are training hard.

Therefore, even though the three squads of Yamamoto's team and the command center were completely wiped out, Yamamoto Ikki was still able to form a new special forces team in a short period of time.

"The combat effectiveness of the reserve personnel is still somewhat different from that of the regular team members. They need some training. I need three months!"

Yamamoto Ikki thought for a moment and gave his own answer.

"Three months. I'll give you three months. After three months, I'll invite the North China Front's battlefield observation group to come to Taiyuan for an inspection. That's when you'll shine. You absolutely cannot afford to fail in this mission!"

Hearing what Shinozuka Kazuo said, Yamamoto Kazuki immediately stood at attention and said seriously, "Hayi, General, please rest assured. Yamamoto will complete the mission at all costs!"

"Very good, but this time the mission is no longer against the Eighth Route Army Headquarters. I have already dispatched planes to bomb the Eighth Route Army Headquarters. They must be like stray dogs now. Your real opponent is him!"

Shinozuka Kazuo handed a document to Yamamoto Kazuki: "The New 1st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army is the target of your operation this time. He destroyed the headquarters of the Sakata Regiment in the Battle of Cangyunling. It was also his New Regiment that ambushed your special operations team in the Yangcun ambush. He also recently attacked the Wanjia Town Cavalry Battalion!"

Yamamoto Ikki quickly flipped through the information, especially when he saw that Li Yunlong used the Yamamoto Special Forces to disguise himself as a Japanese soldier and arrived at Wanjia Town unimpeded, and finally wiped out a cavalry battalion in Wanjia Town, his face looked very ugly.

"The New 1st Regiment is one of the main regiments of the Eighth Route Army. Its commander is Li Yunlong, but we don't have a single photo of him. Yamamoto-kun, you should understand the importance of intelligence to war. We don't even know what our enemy looks like right now."

Yamamoto Ikki immediately lowered his head and said, "General, this is my fault. I have always focused my attention on the top leaders of the Eighth Route Army!"

"It's not your fault. In fact, I never took the Eighth Route Army's regimental commander seriously before, but now it seems we were wrong. We misjudged the enemy's strength. Yamamoto-kun, my request for your next action is very simple: kill Li Yunlong, destroy the New 1st Regiment, and avenge the First Army's humiliation!"

"Hayi!"

"Go get ready!"

"Hayi!"

When Yamamoto Ikki left Shinozuka Kazuo's headquarters, he was holding the information about the New 1st Regiment in his hand, muttering, "New 1st Regiment, Li Yunlong!"

After saying this, he clenched his fists continuously.

At the same time, in the Taihang Mountains, an Eighth Route Army team was moving. Xu Chun, the cook of the headquarters' kitchen team, was walking along the road with sweat all over his forehead.

"Old Xu, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

The comrade beside him asked with concern.

Xu Chun immediately shook his head and said, "No, I'm just a little tired. When are we going to rest?"

"It should be soon, just hold on!"

After hearing this, Xu Chun smiled, looked at the team in front, and continued to chase forward.

This time, he once again revealed the information about the headquarters' transfer to the Japanese, but now it was only because he felt guilty.

After a day of transfer, the Eighth Route Army's "headquarters" moved from Daxia Bay to the location of Wild Wolf Valley as planned.

After arriving at the base, Xu Chun looked around curiously and asked, "Why don't we see the division commander and his men? Are we the only ones there?"

At this time, there were not many Eighth Route Army soldiers in the Wild Wolf Valley, only more than 200 people. The Eighth Route Army headquarters was a huge group. In addition to the command center, there were also various service agencies, guard regiments, etc.

"We are the first group to set off, the others should be behind us!"

Hearing this, Xu Chun felt a little relieved. However, for the next two days, no follow-up personnel arrived, which made Xu Chun gradually feel something was wrong.

But those who arrived at Wild Wolf Valley before them were also busy repairing the barracks and expanding the camp.

"Maybe something delayed them at headquarters."

Xu Chun muttered to himself for a few words, and at this moment, a soldier suddenly pointed to the sky in the distance and shouted: "Devil's planes, hide!"

"hidden!"

"Be careful!"

In the distant sky, a small black dot was flying towards the Wild Wolf Valley at low altitude. When it arrived above the Wild Wolf Valley, it was only a few dozen meters away from the ground. The reconnaissance personnel on the plane could see the situation below clearly.

After the reconnaissance plane took off, it did not return immediately, but dropped a bomb immediately.

"careful!"

"Air strike!"

Just as the soldiers were dodging the bomb, it had already fallen to the ground. The expected explosion did not occur. Instead, thick red smoke suddenly emerged from the bomb and rose into the sky.

"It's a signal flare, run, the Japanese bombers are coming!"

It is very difficult to find a valley in the mountains. The Japanese reconnaissance aircraft will first fly at low altitude to search for the target. After finding the target, they will drop flares to summon the surrounding bomber formations.

Sure enough, when the thick red smoke from the signal flare rose into the sky, small black dots appeared one after another in the distant sky, flying towards the Wild Wolf Valley.

"The devil's plane!"

"Disperse immediately!"

"hidden!"

"Watch out for air strikes!"

Chapter 22 New Training Method, Three-Three Infantry Tactics

"Buzzing..."

The sound of engines hummed above the heads of the Eighth Route Army.

Immediately afterwards, one aerial bomb after another fell from the plane to the ground.

"call out!"

"call out!"

"..."

"boom!"

"boom!"

"..."

A series of explosions sounded, and the newly built tents and temporary residences were bombed by Japanese planes and directly collapsed.

After a round of bombing, the Japanese planes did not leave immediately, but turned their noses and strafed the ground. When they saw a suspected target, they would immediately launch an attack. After strafing back and forth four or five times, they turned their noses and returned.

"report!"

The division commander received the report from another transferring Eighth Route Army headquarters team.

"The team heading to Wild Wolf Valley was attacked by Japanese air raids. Seven people were killed and sixteen were injured."

The division commander put down the telegram in his hand, feeling a little heavy-hearted.

"It seems the traitor appeared in the Wild Wolf Valley team. How many people are on the list?"

"There are four people in total. Here is the list!"

The chief of staff immediately took out a list. The reason why the headquarters was dispersed and moved was to find out the traitors hiding in the headquarters. The other groups were not attacked by the Japanese, only the group in Wild Wolf Valley was attacked, which was enough to explain the problem.

"Let them all be arrested and interrogated. We must catch the traitor!"

The division commander slammed the table hard. There really was a traitor in the headquarters. If Li Yunlong had not warned him in advance, and if he had been lurking there all the time, the consequences would have been disastrous.

Yitiantian, Li Yunlong’s regimental headquarters.

"Old Li, is it really okay to train soldiers this way?"

Zhao Gang looked at the new training plan given by Li Yunlong and asked with some concern.

"The 400-meter obstacle course must be run twice a day. We're fighting in the mountains, a complex environment. Basic tactical maneuvers like bayonet fighting we trained in are no longer effective on the battlefield!"

"I need to get the soldiers accustomed to the complex terrain of mountains and woods. Besides that, I need them to be as familiar as possible with the three-three infantry tactics. This will reduce casualties during the charge."

In addition to studying the Sten submachine gun, Li Yunlong also brought out his improved training plan.

The new training program only retained the previous bayonet fighting training program, and all the others were started from scratch. The focus of the training program was the 400-meter obstacle race. Compared with the obstacle race in later generations, the dog hole crawling was cancelled and some obstacle crossing and trench passing were added.

Every day, soldiers must complete two 400-meter obstacle courses according to prescribed movements. In addition, they also undergo targeted 33-meter infantry positioning training based on squads.

The three-three infantry system can be said to be the pinnacle tactic of light infantry. Soldiers are divided into units of at least three people, standing in a triangle and spreading out to attack an area. This can effectively avoid the enemy's intensive firepower and will not cause cross-gun lines to accidentally injure their own people. At the same time, it can take care of both sides at the same time. The firepower of three soldiers can cover a range beyond that of an original squad of soldiers.

At the same time, the three-three infantry system can be used as a squad with three three-three infantry systems as units. The range that a squad can cover exceeds the range that a platoon of traditional infantry can cover.

There are also three-three infantry systems based on squads, platoons, and even companies. Li Yunlong is very clear about the power of the three-three infantry system. In the future, domestic troops will rely on this tactic to defeat the US military, whose firepower is several times or even ten times stronger than that of the Japanese.

"Old Li, I'm talking about the soldiers' physical exhaustion and our ammunition supply!"

High-intensity training relies on high-intensity logistics. The Eighth Route Army is now in overall difficulty, and ammunition supply is also very difficult. Since the adoption of the new training method, the logistics consumption of the New 1st Regiment has doubled than usual.

"Don't worry, our regiment's current supplies are enough to last for a while. Once we have formed combat effectiveness, we will have no shortage of supplies!"