Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

At the end of June, Beiping, the headquarters of the North China Expeditionary Army.

Neiji Okamura was holding the microphone to his ear, and his words were very polite.

"Meijin-kun, on behalf of my colleagues in the North China Dispatch Army, thank you for your support!" Neiji Okamura said solemnly.

"Mr. Okamura, you and I are all in order to serve His Majesty the Emperor and open up territories for the Great Japanese Empire. This time there is an order from the headquarters, and I will naturally fully support it!"

"I hope Okamura-san will wipe out the resistance of the Chinese people in North China as soon as possible, otherwise once the war in Southeast Asia breaks out, it may be difficult for North China to get support!" Yoshijiro Umezu pointed out on the other end of the phone.

"Hi, I understand!"

After Neiji Okamura hung up the phone, his face became gloomy instantly. Umezu Yoshijiro said how could he not understand!

However, after the Anyang Japanese army led by Suzuki Sadaji suffered another defeat in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan area, Neiji Okamura clearly realized that although the Japanese army had repeatedly sent heavy troops to encircle and suppress, the Japanese army had repeatedly failed in battles. Although the Eighth Route Army also suffered losses, But it was revived shortly after.

In North China, especially the Eighth Route Army troops with the Taihang base area as the core, the situation was in dire straits, and the Japanese army fell into repeated fire fighting and was exhausted.

For this reason, Neiji Okamura ordered the Japanese army in Anyang to shrink its forces to the county seat and along the highway, and not to fight the Eighth Route Army without authorization until the arrival of supplementary troops.

Immediately, he rang the electric bell on the table, and the adjutant in the attendant room opened the door and entered.

"Go and call the Chief of Staff!"

"Hi!"

Not long after, Chief of Staff Moritake Tanabe knocked on the door and walked in.

"Your Excellency General!"

"Mr. Tanabe, I have some good news. I just had a phone call with His Excellency Umezu Yoshijiro of the Kwantung Army. Tomorrow, thirteen field brigades drawn from various divisions under the Kwantung Army will go to Peiping by car. To supplement these troops Where, I want to hear your opinion!" Neiji Okamura asked.

Moritake Tanabe was overjoyed when he heard the words. In terms of combat effectiveness, the Kwantung Army ranks second to none in the Japanese army, with fourteen division-level combat units alone.

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"Your Excellency, the most concentrated area of ??????the Eighth Route Army is the Taihang base area where its command organization is located. The Eighth Route Army is indeed the enemy of the Imperial Army. But with all due respect, the first thing that should be dealt with is the National Army troops in southern Shanxi. !" Moritake Tanabe sorted out his thoughts, and slowly expressed his thoughts.

"Oh! Let's talk about it!" Okamura Ningji sat up straight when he heard the words, what Tanabe Moritake said was quite different from what he thought.

Tanabe Moritake is naturally capable of being the chief of staff. In a short period of time, he sorted out his thoughts, and then said: "Since last year, every time the imperial army launched an encirclement and suppression campaign against China's armed forces, whether it is The national army or the Eighth Route Army will send troops to support!"

"It can be seen that the top leaders of the two sides have reached a tacit understanding and are mutual aid. The so-called anti-Japanese national united front is no longer empty talk. It can be clearly observed from the battles surrounding the Changzhi area and even the Zhongtiaoshan area!"

"The imperial army has a crushing advantage against any armed force, but when the two sides join forces, it is inevitable that they will be overwhelmed!"

"It has always been difficult for the Eighth Route Army troops to find their traces. In addition, they are constantly being suppressed. Like that weed, they will always die again, involving most of the energy of the Imperial Army in North China. From the current situation, it can be expected that the Imperial Army and the Eighth Route Army The battle between them will be difficult to end within a few years!"

"So it's better to focus on the national army in southern Shanxi first, and concentrate the main forces to eliminate the largest combat group of the national army in the south of the Yellow River. In this way, the military power of the national government can be attacked and the frontal battlefield war can be accelerated. After the war is over, we can concentrate our forces on dealing with the Eighth Route Army!"

"Therefore, the thirteen field brigades of the Kwantung Army should be concentrated in the Changzhi area. The geographical location of this place is too important. It is necessary to unite with the First Army to take back the ruling power of the Changzhi area, and then concentrate all our forces to solve the problem in southern Shanxi. The National Army!" Moritake Tanabe finally said.

"Yoxi, Tanabe-kun, your words have awakened me. I have been confused by successive defeats recently!" Okamura Ningji nodded after hearing this, and then continued: "But Tainan, Hebei, Shandong, Henan and other places The Eighth Route Army still cannot relax, Zhou Weihandi, the imperial army???s confidant is in serious trouble, and the incorporation of China???s armed forces in various places must be accelerated!"

"Only relying on the strength of the Imperial Army, the existing Imperial Association Army, and the Public Security Army cannot stabilize the law and order in various places. We must increase the number of personnel. The most fundamental strategy is to use Chinese to control Chinese!"

"Hi, Your Excellency, General, the intelligence department reported that the special envoys of the imperial army have contacted the armed forces near Handan Daming and along the Weihe River, and I believe there will be results soon!" Moritake Tanabe finally reported.

There is no Class A division in the North China Expeditionary Army's combat sequence, and most of them are the three garrison divisions formed later.

When these divisions arrived in North China from Japan, they were equally powerful in combat effectiveness compared with the Eighth Route Army and the National Army.

It's just that as the war progressed, the Japanese army fell into the vast ocean of the people in North China.

Throughout North China, large and small battles occurred one after another. The Eighth Route Army used guerrilla warfare, sparrow warfare, and sniping, and continued to accumulate small victories into big victories. The casualties of Japanese soldiers increased day by day.

According to statistical reports, a brigade stationed by the Japanese army in a certain place in central Hebei did not engage in fierce battles with the Eighth Route Army, but over the past 40 years, it has unknowingly lost more than [-] people, and the casualties exceeded one-third .

Although it is a special case, it can also show the loss of personnel of the Japanese army in the confrontation with the Eighth Route Army.

However, the quality and combat effectiveness of the supplementary personnel recruited by the Japanese army from the country could not be compared with the original veterans. Based on this, Okamura Ningji ordered the expansion of the puppet army's strength.

The words are divided into two parts.

The Hebei-Shandong-Yuan Military Region is still organizing personnel to dig trenches on a large scale in the base area, mobilizing up to [-] manpower, and the county committees and regiments in various places report their progress every day.

Now, after nearly a month, the ditches of the villages on the outskirts of the base area have begun to take shape, and it is only necessary to further connect the ditches of the villages to form a network.

The timing of this campaign of digging ditches by the whole people was just right, and the various Japanese troops bordering the base area were aware of the considerable movement in the base area early in the morning.

However, his own strength was damaged, and with Okamura Ningji's order, he only sent a small group of troops to approach for reconnaissance, and was immediately wiped out by the Eighth Route Army of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, and there was no further movement.