All gods, the lord who started with the bright sword

Chapter 169, the war sparked by a telegram
"Drip drip drip drip..."

In the telecommunications room of the Taiyuan intelligence department, the telegraph machine was busy with tasks non-stop, and the room was full of the sound of sending and receiving telegrams.

A more than 30-year-old telegraph operator was flipping through a small cipher book, analyzing and translating the received telegram numbers into Japanese.

Sending and receiving telegrams is a technical job. Young people around 30 years old are at the time when they have the most experience and the most energy, and they can take on heavy responsibilities.

And this telegram sent from a distant place is indeed very important.

Quickly read the contents of the translated telegram in his heart, he stood up abruptly, with ecstasy on his face, and said excitedly to the telecommunications section chief:
"It's the information Mr. Yamamoto wants, and it must be presented to him immediately."

Wireless telegraphy is by far the most important channel for information exchange.

The telecommunications department is like a person's brain, through which a large amount of information flows every day.

The chief of the telecommunications section understood the importance of the matter very well. He didn't even glance at the content of the telegram, and immediately brought two guards at the door to escort the telegraph operator to deliver the telegram to Colonel Yamamoto.

Kazuki Yamamoto is writing a battle plan at his desk in the office. He can always put forward relatively novel viewpoints, which makes people shine.

Even with many failures, it still failed to affect his status in the mind of Commander Yoshio Youzuka.

The adjutant asked for instructions, and the telegraph operator who will report to work in the future invited in.

Kazuki Yamamoto recognized him as a telegraph operator for a certain radio station: "Is it a telegram from a postage stamp?"

"Yes, please have a look." The telegrapher handed over the telegram.

Kazuki Yamamoto read the telegram carefully.

"Stamp" is a code name, which is unique to a certain person.

In the past two months or so, they have gained a deeper understanding of the changes in the Eighth Route Army in the past six months through the information and intelligence sent by the postage stamps.

All aspects of intelligence played a very important role.

Youzuka Yoshio once commented: This intelligence officer alone can play a role as good as a brigade.

One person can stand up to 8000 people's combat troops, and you know the value of that information.

After reading the entire telegram, Kazuki Yamamoto's face turned black instantly.

If the information is conclusive, the impact on their First Army would be no less than a magnitude [-] earthquake.

He couldn't sit still for a second, picked up the telegram and hurried out, heading straight for the commander's office.

On the way, Kazuki Yamamoto was still thinking: "This information is really important, and if it is finally confirmed, we must credit the stamp.

His value is more than a brigade, even a division can't stand it! "

Yoshio Youzuka, who was meeting with the head of the Ninth Brigade, looked much older than a few months ago.

It was a defeat on the battlefield that exhausted him physically and mentally.

In the past two months or so, the losses caused by the Eight Routes' active offensive, plus the losses caused by their active counterattack.

Added together, there were 3000 more than [-] casualties. (Not counting the Royal Association Army)

It can account for more than a quarter of the strength of the First Army a few months ago.

According to intelligence, the casualties of the Eighth Route Army were less than half of theirs.

The strategic goal was not achieved, and the number of casualties was twice that of the opponent. The strategy of the First Army can be said to be a complete failure.

Even now, the mobilizable troops belonging to the First Army have not decreased but increased to as many as 140,000. There are Type A divisions, tank brigades, and larger aviation units.

Yoshio Youzuka still couldn't feel the slightest optimism, only the heavy pressure, which made him almost out of breath.

Under his tenure, Shanxi has become the front line of the war from what was originally positioned as the rear area.

Assembled and mobilized more than 80,000 troops to come, other directions are bound to fall into an empty and weak situation.

If you can't come up with the results as soon as possible, and Yoshio Youzuka can't explain to the headquarters, then he will be the commander to the end.

Boom, boom, suddenly there was a knock on the door.

Yoshio Youzuka stopped talking with his subordinates, glanced over and saw Kazuki Yamamoto standing at the half-open door.

"Come in and talk!"

Kazuki Yamamoto walked in and glanced at Major General Hashimoto Yabang: "General, the telegram sent by the stamp is very important."

After he finished speaking, he remained silent, and the meaning was very obvious.

Yabang Hashimoto felt a little uncomfortable, and he still needs to avoid co-authoring?

But seeing that Commander Youzuka Yoshio didn't speak, he left in a sensible manner, but he secretly hated Kazuki Yamamoto in his heart.

Kazuki Yamamoto didn't know that he had offended someone again. He handed the telegram to the commander and stated his judgment.

"There is no doubt that the arsenal mentioned in the intelligence is very, very important, and we must pay attention to it."

Hearing that it was a telegram from "Stamp", Yoshio Youzuka paid attention to it.

He put on his reading glasses and couldn't help frowning as he read the contents of the telegram.Clearly, this intelligence is not pleasant.

The only good thing is that they got the news early.

Instead of establishing and putting into production at the Eighth Route Arsenal, it is known only after a large number of weapons are manufactured.

The monthly output of assault rifles is as high as 5, and the monthly output of various bullets is [-] million rounds, without counting mortars, bazookas, grenades, light and heavy machine guns.

Based on the output of those two basic weapons alone, Yoshio Youzuka made up his mind: this arsenal must be destroyed.

As a leader, he was not in a hurry to express his opinion, but was going to see what his subordinates thought first.

"Yamamoto-kun, what do you think?"

Kazuki Yamamoto was already thinking about it on the way here.

He said: "The arsenal of the Eighth Route Army must not be established, otherwise, at the rate of reproduction of the Eighth Route Army, it will take less than half a year, and the whole of Shanxi will not have a foothold for our Great Japanese Imperial Army."

Yoshio Youzuka nodded in agreement.

Based on the planned output of this arsenal, the weapons produced in half a year are enough to arm an army of more than 200,000.

What a horrible thing that would be!

At present, according to intelligence statistics, only about 50,000 people in the Eighth Route Army have replaced new weapons.

Its combat capability is obvious to all. With the same number of troops, the Imperial Japanese Army was not an opponent, and was defeated steadily.

To lose the whole of Shanxi in half a year, Kazuki Yamamoto's estimation is still too conservative.

As long as the Eighth Route Army equips another 100,000 people with new weapons, that is, three months, the 140,000 people of its First Army will be no match, and they must withdraw from Shanxi.

No one wants to face failure.

Then there is only one choice, which is not to allow the arsenal of the Eighth Route Army to be established, let alone allow them to have the opportunity to develop.

With the approval of the commander, Kazuki Yamamoto continued along this line of thought:

"At the moment we have two options, determine the location of the arsenal, and then mobilize all the bombers to launch an air strike at the right time to completely destroy the entire industrial area."

They have already obtained the data of the Eighth Route Army's anti-aircraft missiles from "stamps".

It is known that the single-person portable anti-aircraft missile can threaten aircraft at an altitude of 3000 meters at most.

The fear that the Japanese aircraft used to come from, as long as it was locked, could not escape, finally disappeared in the face of conclusive intelligence.

It has proven quite feasible to use swarms of bombers to destroy the industrial strength of the hostile power, especially the military industrial strength.

The Eighth Route Army did not have air supremacy, and did not have enough ground anti-aircraft guns to form anti-aircraft firepower.

Facing the overwhelming bombs dropped by bombers, there is absolutely no way.

Yoshio Youzuka agrees with this method, but he has a worry: "If the machinery of the arsenal is placed in the cave, the bombing by the plane will be useless."

According to intelligence, the Eighth Route Army has a water waist arsenal, which was built in a hollow cave.

His concerns are not unfounded.

Isn't the Eighth Route Army worried that the arsenal will be destroyed by bombing?

Anyway, never underestimate the enemy, underestimate the enemy, that is irresponsible to oneself.

"What the general said is that there is indeed such a possibility. I will let people continue to inquire about the news."

Kazuki Yamamoto paused, and then said: "Actually, I think that if conditions permit, it is best to dispatch ground troops to directly attack the arsenal of the Eight Route Army."

Yoshio Youzuka was surprised when he heard this: "Tell me your reason."

Having just experienced two defeats at the moment, it has been confirmed that the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army's troops equipped with new weapons is much stronger than that of the original second-line troops of the First Army.

There is a fear of war in the army.

When victory can be seen in the distance, everyone will be very confident and become extremely brave.

But once you fall into a disadvantage, especially if you continue to fail, negative emotions will spread.

The purpose of talking to the brigade commander of the Ninth Brigade just now was to suppress the negative emotions within the Ninth Brigade.

This force was stationed in Taiyuan and did not participate in the previous two battles.

However, a large number of wounded soldiers on the front line were transferred to the hospitals in Taiyuan and the field hospitals in the army. The spreaders of bad news brought down the morale of the troops who did not participate in the war.

So from the heart, Yoshio Youzuka judged that the current army has not been reorganized, and it is inconvenient to start a big battle.

Kazuki Yamamoto said: "General, there is news from domestic arsenals that in terms of imitation of weapons, we lack drawing technology.

If there is a chance, even if there is a [-]% chance, to snatch the machines from the Eighth Route Armory, you should give it a try. "

For the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army who had suffered a lot was most interested.

The experts in their domestic arsenal have already organized a team to tackle the problem, and they are trying to figure out the principle and imitate it almost without sleep.

Like assault rifles, light and heavy machine guns, there are physical prototypes, even if there is no blueprint, it will take more time, and they can be imitated after all.

However, the research progress of Japanese military experts on something that is simple, cheap and advanced, such as the bazooka, is extremely slow.

According to experts, if the rocket launcher can be imitated, the Eighth Route Army's Type [-] rocket launcher can be imitated on this basis.

The principles of the two have certain similarities.

The Japanese army, who had suffered a lot in front of the Type [-] rocket launcher, dreamed of owning the same type of weapon.

Kazuki Yamamoto's special forces were almost destroyed twice because of the Type [-] rocket launcher.

He also thought that if his special forces could have such a portable rocket launcher as supporting firepower, he might have wiped out the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army long ago.

This has become Yamamoto's obsession.

but.

Think about it a little bit, what would happen if there was a possibility that important machines would fall into the hands of the enemy?
I will definitely try my best to destroy it and never leave it to the enemy.

But it is not without exception.

In the early days of the invasion, the central army was defeated too quickly, and many factories that were supposed to be evacuated to the rear were not able to evacuate in time.

There are even situations where the machines in the arsenal are piled up on the road, and no one manages them.

The machinery of the Eighth Route Army’s Shuiyao Armory Factory was found by the underground party in Chongqing at that time, picked up on the road, and tried every means to send it to the base area.

Kazuki Yamamoto believes that as long as the entire operation is planned quickly enough, so that the Eighth Route Army has no chance to respond, there is a certain possibility.

Even if most of them are destroyed, it is very valuable to seize some military equipment.

His proposal was taken seriously by Youzuka Yoshio.

No battle is 100%, as long as there is a [-]% probability, you can gamble.

But the possibility of less than [-]%, compared with the possible price, has to be considered.

Yoshio Youzuka took off his reading glasses, and gently rubbed his temples to soothe the nerves in his brain.

It's not that he's scared, it's just that the moment is really not the time to start a war.

The troops that have just finished the battle need to rest and reorganize, and the ammunition and supplies that have been consumed are still being replenished.

If you are not ready, just rely on an idea to start a big battle, which only exists in the fantasy of laymen.

In any large-scale battle, troop mobilization, logistics and supply transportation, and intelligence and reconnaissance of the enemy are extremely complicated.

If there is a problem with any of the links.

The scales of victory will not be inclined to them.

Seeing that the commander was still hesitating, Kazuki Yamamoto prepared to apply a new combat system he was studying to this operation.

This combat plan is very feasible, and Yamamoto's explanation moved Yoshio Youzuka.

He couldn't help asking: "Yamamoto-kun, the gap between us is actually so big. How did you come up with such an ingenious style of play?"

"The general praised it absurdly. This is the essence of Germany's blitzkrieg. I just picked up the wisdom of others and imitated it."

Kazuki Yamamoto rarely showed a humble attitude.

However, this is also in line with his proud character, because a truly proud person will not claim the credit of others.

In the past June 22, the French Rooster had resisted weakly for 43 days and surrendered to Germany.

Its speed shocked the whole world.

The Japanese army naturally attached great importance to allies, and specially organized people to conduct research.

Knowing the specific situation, it was really a prank.

Kazuki Yamamoto was greatly shocked, but that is the world's largest army power, and it will be over in 43 days?

When the German army marched into Paris, there were still organized troops in France on the front line!
The conclusion: no one can take Paris before France surrenders.

Yoshio Youzuka was in a state of desperation at that time and didn't care to pay attention at all.

Kazuki Yamamoto studied at the Military Academy in Munich, Germany, specializing in special operations.

Naturally, the advantages of learning should not be limited to a certain point, and it is natural to learn all the advantages.

His plan is a shameful imitation of plagiarism.

Of course, this thing has no intellectual property rights, and no one will sue him in court.

Youzuka Yoshio still admires Kazuki Yamamoto for his imitation plan.

Others also learned about the fighting between the two sides, and many people have studied it specifically, so why didn't they come up with the same opinion?
This shows that Kazuki Yamamoto is still very capable.

Plagiarism and imitation is also a skill.

As long as you can win the battle.

Youzuka Yoshio instructed: "You should make a complete plan and submit it to the staff for study and discussion, so as to form a specific combat plan as soon as possible."

"Hi!" Yamamoto responded excitedly.

(End of this chapter)