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As soon as Kasai Toshimatsu, the communications staff officer, walked to the door, he ran into Kazuki Yamamoto who came in with Dasa's saber.

Kasai Toshimatsu was just a lieutenant, he stood up and nodded to Kazuki Yamamoto, and Kazuki Yamamoto nodded slightly at Kasai Toshimatsu.

After Kasai Toshimatsu left, Yamamoto Kazuki continued to walk towards Commander Shinozuka Yoshio.

Seeing Kazuki Yamamoto, Shinozuka Yoshio's black face softened slightly: "Yamamoto-kun, you are here, please sit down."

Shinozuka Yoshio came out from behind the desk, stretched out his hand towards the chessboard, and then the two walked over and sat down facing each other across the chessboard.

Kazuki Yamamoto picked up the teapot next to him and filled Shinozuka Yoshio's blue and white porcelain teacup.

Shinozuka Yoshio said to the chessboard in front of him, "Yamamoto-kun, this is an unfinished game between Chief of Staff Kusuyama and I. What do you think?"

Kazuki Yamamoto's eyes sank, and he only glanced twice before saying, "Your Excellency, with all due respect, this is a draw."

"This is indeed a draw." Shinozuka Yoshio said, "Does Yamamoto-kun have a way to break the game?"

"It is absolutely impossible to completely defeat the opponent in this game of chess, unless there is another game of chess and a restart of the game is possible."

Kazuki Yamamoto knew the meaning of Yoshio Shinozuka's words, he seemed to be asking about the chess game, but he was actually asking him about the current battle situation between the First Army and the Eighth Route Army.

Shinozuka Yoshio sighed, the mopping up took so much material, financial and manpower, yet it still came short, which made the old devil very unwilling.

"Have you heard about Yamazaki-kun's martyrdom?"

Picking up the teacup and taking a sip, Yoshio Shinozuka calmed down a little and changed the subject to ask.

"I heard that Yamazaki-kun graduated from the Imperial Army Academy and is an excellent imperial soldier."

With a serious face, Yamamoto said unceremoniously: "But he has committed the common problem of most imperial soldiers. He regards himself as the god of war. With a force of more than a thousand people, he can go deep into the enemy's hinterland. How can he be undefeated?" !"

"I said long ago that the Tuba Road is no longer what it used to be. They already have the strength to quickly wipe out a regiment of the Imperial Army."

"It's really stupid to use this kind of central flowering tactic."

Shinozuka Yoshio looked a little embarrassed when he heard Yamamoto's accusations against Sang and Huai. After all, it was a battle plan he personally agreed to let the Yamazaki detachment enter the Eighth Route Army's hinterland.

Before the war, he, Kusuyama Hideyoshi, and Tada Hayao all agreed that after the main force of the Eighth Route Army launched the battle, after more than two months of attacks, it is now a tired army.

Urgently in need of rest and replenishment.

Moreover, it is estimated that the eight-way shells may not be consumed much.

At this time, it is not difficult to give Eight Roads a center to bloom, and it is not difficult to eliminate Eight Roads in one fell swoop.

However, the ideal is very rich, but the reality is very skinny.

The mopping-up troops searched the base of the Eighth Route for several days, but they didn't even see Mao, the main force of the Eighth Route.

But it was not without any gains. Wherever the Japanese army went, houses, farmland, hospitals, schools and arsenals were all destroyed.

Shinozuka Yoshio said:

"The destruction of the Yamazaki detachment is nothing more than adding more than a thousand heroic souls to the Yasukuni Shrine."

"But I am thinking about the honor of the First Army."

"In the past few months, the First Army has suffered heavy losses, over [-] casualties, and its honor has been ruined."

"I have been thinking about how to restore the honor of the First Army and wash away the shame."

Kazuki Yamamoto said: "General, with all due respect, I am pessimistic about the battle situation with the current strategy and tactics against Tubalu."

"The commander of the Eighth Route Army is very smart. He knows very well that the Eighth Route Army is no match for the Imperial Army with its current strength."

"That's why every time we face raids by the imperial army, we adopt tactics to avoid the sharp edge of the imperial army, so that every time the imperial army hits the cotton with their fists."

These words hit Yoshio Shinozuka's heart, and Yoshio Shinozuka said: "Not only do they avoid the sharp edge of the imperial army, but this group of mud-legged people often jump to the outside line to ambush the imperial army's transport team. They set off from Yangquan this afternoon. The convoy was ambushed by eight routes, and the two squadrons of the imperial army that rushed to rescue were all destroyed."

"As expected."

Kazuki Yamamoto still had a cold and paralyzed face, without the slightest expression of surprise on his face: "Right now the Eight Roads are still adopting a strategy of avoiding the edge of the imperial army, once the earth eight roads take the initiative to fight the imperial army, it means that the earth eight roads have With the strength and odds of defeating the imperial army, the imperial army might..."

After speaking, Kazuki Yamamoto's eyes flashed sharply.

Yoshio Shinozuka felt a little restless when he heard the words. If there was no military assistance from the outside world, he would not worry about this problem.

Even the Chinese government army, which controlled the distribution of resources, financial resources, material resources and manpower of the whole of China, was defeated by the Japanese army, and most of China fell into Japanese hands.

What's more, Tuba Road, which only occupies a few small sites?

However, after receiving military assistance, coupled with flexible strategies and tactics, Tubalu has already demonstrated impressive combat effectiveness, posing a considerable threat to the Japanese army.

In time, the Tuba Road will be full-fledged, and its weapons and equipment will be more sophisticated than the imperial army...

Shinozuka Yoshio couldn't sit still anymore, and asked in a deep voice: "Yamamoto-kun, what do you mean by restarting the chess game just now?"

Kazuki Yamamoto said: "Your Excellency, the subject of my research is special operations, so I have always considered issues with the thinking of special tactics."

"The so-called restart of the chess game is to re-formulate a sweep and beheading plan for the Eight Routes with the secret service team as the center."

Shinozuka Yoshio asked: "Didn't you say that there are ghosts in the headquarters, and that the secret service team will not easily decapitate the leaders of the Eight Routes? Why did you change your mind this time?"

Kazuki Yamamoto looked around, Yoshio Shinozuka saw this, then went to the door, sent the guard away and ordered no one to approach.

After confirming that no one was eavesdropping, Shinozuka Yoshio said: "Yamamoto-kun, there are only two of us here, can we talk about your plan?"

Kazuki Yamamoto paused and said: "Your Excellency, please forgive me, I secretly trained two troops to replace the secret service team to decapitate the eight routes."

"Oh?" Shinozuka Yoshio frowned first, and then said, "Yamamoto-kun wants to keep it secret, so it's understandable, which two troops are they?"

Kazuki Yamamoto: "The captains are Lieutenant Mashiko Shigeo of the Ninth Squadron of the 36rd Regiment of the 223th Division and Lieutenant Okawa Momoyoshi of the 224th Regiment."

"These two were specially selected by me during the last training camp. There are also 200 elite imperial soldiers who have not been sent back to the original army."

"Although they are not up to the standard of special soldiers, their individual quality is better than that of ordinary imperial soldiers. After my intensive training, their individual quality is even stronger than that of the elite soldiers of the permanent division."

"Lieutenant Mashiko and Lieutenant Okawa each led 100 elites to replace the secret service team to carry out the task of beheading the leader of the Eighth Route Army. There is no problem."

"These two units are not up to the standard of special forces. I call them the advance team."

Kazuki Yamamoto is not a fool, on the contrary, he is smarter than all the senior members of the First Army Command.

Since the last attack on the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Daxia Bay failed, he always felt that there was an insider in the top ranks of the First Army, and even the whereabouts of the secret service team had been kept secret. Where, what exactly are you doing.

"Advancing into the team? It's interesting." Yoshio Shinozuka nodded, "But the most critical issue now is that the imperial army doesn't know the whereabouts of the leaders of the Eighth Route Army."

Kazuki Yamamoto said: "As early as a few months ago, I sent a telegram to the special instructor in Germany, asking him to help purchase and send the most advanced radio detection equipment."

"The radio detection equipment has arrived two days ago. This kind of radio detection equipment can accurately detect the positions of all radio signals within a radius of tens of kilometers."

"The advance team brought it close to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. As long as the high-power radio station of the Eighth Route Army is sending and receiving telegrams, the leader of the Eighth Route Army can be found and beheaded."

"Yoshi!" Shinozuka Yoshio nodded happily, "It turns out that Yamamoto-kun has already prepared, how many sweeping troops do you need to use?"

"Your Excellency, you only need two brigades."

Kazuki Yamamoto's expression didn't fluctuate at all.

"Two brigades are not too many." Shinozuka Yoshio pondered, "But this battle plan requires the approval of the North China Front Army Command."

Although Yoshio Shinozuka is the commander of the First Army, he can only mobilize the strength of one brigade at most at will, and the mobilization of the strength of two brigades requires the approval of the commander of the North China Front Army.

"I believe that Commander Tada will agree to this battle plan." Kazuki Yamamoto said, "But I have a request. This battle plan does not require the participation of the staff of the headquarters."

"If Commander Tada agrees to this battle plan." Yoshio Shinozuka said, "I agree to your request."

"However, I also have a request, that is, this combat operation is only allowed to succeed and not to fail."

"Hi!" Kazuki Yamamoto paused and said, "I will definitely live up to the General's request!"

……

Following Yoshio Shinozuka's order, the mopping-up army of devils withdrew from the Jindongnan base area one after another the next day.

Although the devil's mopping up troops did not find the main decisive battle of the Eighth Route Army, they wreak havoc in the base area and caused considerable losses to the Eighth Route Army's base area.

The 9th Brigade, 29th Brigade, 36th Division, and 37th Division withdrew to their respective defense zones one after another.

Shinozuka Yoshio was not idle either, planning to make a comeback. In order to persuade Tada Hayao to agree to the beheading operation, he personally flew to Peiping by plane and met Tada Hayao at Iron Lion Alley.

Although the mopping up plan failed, the Japanese base camp gave Hayao Tada another chance.

After the two met, Yoshio Shinozuka showed Kazuki Yamamoto's battle plan to Hayao Tada, and blew up Yamamoto's battle plan to the sky.

Tada Hayao was also very satisfied after listening to Shinozuka Yoshio's narration and the beheading plan.

In Tada Hayao's view, the failure of the cage tactics and sweeps showed that the previous tactics were unworkable, and the risky tactics of soldiers might be able to achieve miraculous results.

Therefore, Commander Hayao Tada agreed to the battle plan and ordered Major General Naomi Hattori, head of the 21st Brigade directly under the North China Front Army, to form an observation group and go to the First Army to observe special operations.

If this special operation can be successful, Tada Hayao will promote special operations and innovate tactics throughout the North China Front Army.