I am a wolf warrior

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"Don't talk about that." Neiji Okamura waved his hand and said again, "However, it is a blessing in disguise. Although the navy suffered a disastrous defeat at Midway Island, it may not be a bad thing for our army."

Anda 23 said: "What do you say, Your Excellency the General?"

"The reason is very simple." Neiji Okamura said, "If the Navy hadn't lost the Midway Island, they would still be arrogant and unrealistically propose to occupy all the islands in the Pacific Ocean. At that time, the limited war resources stored in the base camp would be enough. It will continue to lean toward the navy, and the resources available to our army will be very limited."

After a pause, Neiji Okamura went on to say: "But it's different now. Now that the Navy's combined fleet has suffered heavy losses in the Midway Battle and has basically lost its command of the sea in the South Pacific, then the Ministry of the Navy has made plans to seize Fiji and Samoa." There is a high probability that the combat plans in New Caledonia and other places will have to be abandoned.”

"That's right." Anda 23 said happily, "In this way, the Navy doesn't need so many combat supplies."

"So, this is an opportunity for our army, especially for our North China Front Army." Speaking of this, Okamura Ningji paused for a while, and turned his attention to Yusue Sandao again, "Yousue-kun, I How is the preparation of the materials you were asked to prepare about the May Day sweep?"

"Hayi!" Yusue Seizo handed over a thick pile of documents in a file bag.

"Yoshi, are you ready?" Okamura Ningji finally looked better, and said again, "But before I go back to my country, I'm afraid I have to go to Manchuria first."

"Manchuria?" Youmo Jingsan's eyes froze when he heard that.

Is this to draw elites from the Kwantung Army?

Could it be the First Division?

……

Northwest Shanxi.

Hearing that the arsenal had been completed and put into production, the brigade commander also sneaked over to inspect it.

But the brigade commander also brought a piece of bad news that made everyone feel heavy.

"The Jizhong Military Region has been completely destroyed by the Japanese army as an organizational system." The brigade commander said sadly, "The Jizhong base area no longer exists. Most of the tens of thousands of regular troops died, and the remaining troops were transferred to the Jinchaji base area. A few backbones turned into militias and continued to fight guerrillas in the original area.”

Hearing this, Li Yunlong and the others immediately sighed.

Ding Wei regretted it even more, he was originally from Jizhong.

Ding Wei sighed and said: "It seems that tunnel warfare is not enough."

"Ding Wei, you are right." The brigade commander said, "The main reason why the Jizhong Military Region suffered defeat this time is because the Japanese army found a way to break the tunnel warfare. I came here this time not only to see the arsenal, but also to I remind you guys, don’t think that everything will be fine after digging thousands of kilometers of tunnels.”

After a pause, the brigade commander said again: "The tunnels in the Jizhong Military Region are more than 1 kilometers in total, but they were still cracked by the old devil Neji Okamura."

Kong Jie said, "What method did Neiji Okamura use?"

The brigade commander said: "Actually, it's still the same stupid method as before. The blockade strategy is to dig blockade ditches, build roads and blockhouses, and then push inwards from all around until the main force of our army and the people are compressed in one place." In an extremely narrow area, until trapped or forced our army to break through."

Zhao Gang said: "Isn't there still a tunnel? How can I be trapped?"

Li Yunlong also said: "Yes, even if it is divided and surrounded, the village can fight on its own. The devils and puppet troops simply don't have so many troops to divide and surround our villages."

Xing Zhiguo also said: "This is how we defeated the devils last time when the Fuliang Mountains were raided."

The brigade commander shook his head and said: "After using the anti-sweeping method of Fuliang Mountain once, it doesn't work, because the old devil Neji Okamura has already thought of a way to crack it."

Li Yunlong asked: "What method?"

The brigade commander said: "First seal off the entire village with a ring trench, then dig a shaft in the village, and then place a large amount of explosives to detonate underground. The huge shock wave from the deep underground can easily destroy the shallow tunnel. Dozens of villages in the village originally planned to fight on their own, but as a result, the whole village, young and old, together with militiamen, were all buried alive!"

After a pause, the brigade commander sighed again: "After that, the Jizhong Military Region will no longer dare to fight on its own."

"Fuck!" Li Yunlong said bitterly, "Okamura Ningji is really vicious enough."

"What do you think?" The brigade commander said angrily, "Even the boss said that this old devil is difficult to deal with."

Zhao Gang said awe-inspiringly: "If this is the case, our Shanxi Northwest Military Region really needs to be vigilant. Maybe the Japanese army will also adopt such tactics in the next raid."

The brigade commander said in a deep voice: "It's not a possibility, but a certainty. Little Japan's learning ability is actually very strong, and some effective tactics on the battlefield will soon be promoted."

"But fortunately, we are not completely unprepared."

Wang Ye smiled and said, "Brigadier, in fact, we have changed our defense strategy a long time ago."

"I heard." The brigade commander said happily, "You kid is building a fortress city defense system?"

"Yes, the fortress city defense system." Wang Ye said, "Unconventional tactics such as tunnel warfare are still very effective against small-scale raids by devils, but they are not very effective when encountering large-scale attacks by devils."

"Facing the large-scale attack of devils, the fortress defense system is more effective."

Speaking of this meal, Wang Ye said: "Unfortunately, the mountains in the northwest of Shanxi are all earthy mountains. There is no granite crater like Shuiyao Mountain. In the end, it will definitely not be able to stop the Japanese army, so we have to do the worst. The plan is to fight the devils in several core cities and kill and injure the Japanese army's vital forces as much as possible."

The brigade commander suddenly became interested and asked, "Did you make a sand table?"

"Of course." Wang Ye said with a sullen hand, "Brigade Commander, this way please."

Immediately, a group of people surrounded the brigade commander and came to the next-door combat hall.

I saw that a huge simulation sand table had already been prepared in the combat hall.

What is displayed on the sand table is a scaled-down model of mountains, rivers and valleys in Northwest Shanxi.

On the side of the sand table, there are even scaled-down cutaway models of several fortresses.

Wang Ye pointed at the sections with a wooden pole and said, "Look, Brigadier, these are the sections of several fortresses. Although the specific shapes are different, the basic structure is the same."

"The core defense purpose of the four fortresses is side defense."

"The road facing the direct fire of the Japanese army has anti-tank cones, blocking ditches, and traffic trenches, but there will never be bunkers, because no fortification can withstand the concentrated fire of the Japanese direct fire."

"All our fortifications are built on the mountain ridges on both sides of the road."

"And all defensive firepower is directed at the road, forming dense cross-flank firepower."

Speaking of this meal, Wang Ye said again: "Once the Japanese army enters the road, they will be killed by crossfire from both sides of the road. No matter how many people the devils put in, there will only be one result, all wiped out!"

The brigade commander frowned and said, "I'm afraid this is just your wishful thinking. If the Japanese army attacked the positions on both sides first, what would you do?"

"This is exactly what I want to achieve." Wang Ye smiled slightly, and said again, "That is to force the Japanese army to abandon the road and choose to fight our army in tunnels in the mountains on both sides!"

"Hmm." The brigade commander already understood Wang Ye's thinking when he heard this.

Wang Ye's defensive thinking can be summed up, in fact, there is only one sentence: make use of strengths and avoid weaknesses!

The biggest advantage of the Japanese army is firepower, so they did not engage in frontal defense, but deployed all firepower on the hillsides on both sides of the road to form side firepower.

This kind of side fire can not only block the road, but also avoid the Japanese counterfire.

If the Japanese army wanted to destroy such side-firing firepower, they could only deploy infantry to attack the hillsides on both sides of the road. This became an upward attack on the mountain, and the Japanese army's firepower advantage had been abolished by half.

Then, the side fire point designed by Wang Ye is still hidden.

It is to hollow out the hills on both sides of the road one by one and build them into bunkers one by one.

In this way, if the Japanese army wanted to destroy the Eighth Route Army's flanking firepower points, it had to seize one bunker after another, and each fortress had dozens of such bunkers.

And it is still increasing at an average rate of one per day.

It is conceivable how strenuous and difficult it would be for the Japanese army to fight for it.

It must be admitted that Wang Ye's defense idea is still very good.

However, whether it can play its due role still has to be tested through actual combat.

Wang Ye chuckled and said again: "Brigade Commander, I named this defense plan, and it's called collapse defense."

"Crash defense?" The brigade commander asked with great interest, "Why such a strange name? Is there anything special about it?"

Wang Yedao: "For example, the Japanese army is like a truck. When the Japanese army launched an attack, it was like a truck accelerating towards us, and one of our bunkers is a layer of baffles. If a bunker can't stop it, then Just two or two bunkers are still unstoppable, then three, four, and collapse in layer by layer until the Japanese truck runs out of kinetic energy and stops completely. At this time, it means that we Hold the fort."

The brigade commander nodded and said, "The collapse defense you have built sounds powerful, but the question is, can it stop heavy trucks? And how long will it last?"

Wang Ye said: "As far as it is concerned, it can hold back the four divisions of the Japanese army for about half a month."

"What, you can withstand the attack of four divisions?" The brigade commander was taken aback, and then asked again, "However, why can you only hold on for half a month? Don't you think the time is a bit short?"

"Because there is no ammunition." Wang Ye spread his hands, "The ammunition reserve is only enough for half a month."

"Ammunition?" The brigade commander nodded, and immediately said, "Let's go and see our arsenal."

At that moment, Li Yunlong ordered the horses to be prepared again, and then a group of people surrounded the brigade commander and came straight to Wanmadu.

……

Tokyo, Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, the official residence of the Prime Minister of Japan.

The official residence of the Prime Minister of Japan is not the living place of the Prime Minister of Japan, but an office.

In the living room of the prime minister's office, Hideki Tojo and Neiji Okamura sat kneeling on the tatami mats facing each other.

Looking at the man kneeling in front of him, Neiji Okamura couldn't help feeling a little bit emotional, thinking that when he was partying in a spa sanatorium in Baden-Baden, Germany, this guy was only assigned to guard the door for the three of them, but now, Nagata-kun Already dead, Toshi-kun Xiaohata has already faded out of the military, and he is the only one left in the Showa Sanbawu.

However, the guy who was guarding the door for them at the time became the prime minister.

In order to get this guy's support, he also had to make a lot of careful preparations.

Looking at Neiji Okamura kneeling in front of him, Hideki Tojo also felt a little emotional.

Life is like a marathon, not a [-]-meter sprint. Although Nagata Tetsuzan and Obata Toshiro started fast, their endurance was too poor, so Hideki Tojo had the last laugh.

Thinking of this, Hideki Tojo said with a slight smile: "Mr. Okamura, the moment you open your mouth, there will be a large increase in troops from ten divisions, and your appetite is too great. Please give me a convincing reason."

Okamura Ningji said solemnly: "The reason is that the [-]th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army can no longer be allowed to sit on the throne. So far, the [-]th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army has developed into a strategic armed force that can annihilate a division of the Imperial Army. The scary thing is that this army is still developing rapidly, and within half a year, it will be enough to threaten the safety of the First Army stationed in Shanxi!"

"Mr. Okamura, is that an exaggeration?" Hideki Tojo said with a frown, "It's just 70 land and eight roads, and it's more difficult to deal with than hundreds of thousands or even millions of that central army? Battle of Songhu, 100 The elite Central Army of China, the Battle of Wuhan, more than [-] million Central Army, were easily defeated by the Imperial Army, you now say that a mere [-] soil and eight roads are enough to threaten the overall security of the First Army stationed in Shanxi, are you serious? "

Neiji Okamura took out the first file from his briefcase and said, "Tojo-kun, please take a look at this."

Hideki Tojo took it, but found that it was a list with the number of the unit and the commander on the list.

Neiji Okamura said quietly: "I believe that you must have seen these battle reports, Tojo-kun, but you must have never thought that it is the same army that caused these losses to the empire and the imperial army, and this The designation of this unit is the [-]th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, which is really a different Chinese army."

Hideki Tojo's face finally became serious when he heard this.

Hideki Tojo then picked up his glasses, put them on, and read carefully.

I saw that it was written on the list:

Kuroshima United Team, Kuroshima Morita, Colonel;

Yamazaki Battalion, Yamazaki Zhihei, Major;

Fourth Brigade, Maeda Hideo, Major General;

The Ninth Brigade, Yuyuki Yamashita, Major General;

Field observation group: Naotomi Hattori, major general;

The Fourth Cavalry Brigade, Kojima Kizang, Major General;

Lieutenant General Maeda Tadanobu, Second Guard Division

No.60 Ninth Division, Miyano Michiichi, Lieutenant General

Seeing the end of the list, Hideki Tojo's expression finally changed.

Hideki Tojo said in a deep voice: "Mr. Okamura, all these troops of the Imperial Army were wiped out by the [-]th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army? And the commanders and generals on the list were also killed by the [-]th Brigade ?”

"Yes." Ningji Okamura nodded, and said again, "In fact, Yoshio Shinozuka and Yoshio Iwamatsu, the two commanders of the First Army stationed in Shanxi, also committed suicide because of the [-]th Brigade. It is said that the [-]th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army is the mortal enemy of the imperial army, the hands of the [-]th Brigade are really covered with the blood and tears of the imperial soldiers!"

"Damn it!" Hideki Tojo slammed his fist heavily on the low table.

Neiji Okamura added: "The most worrying thing is not the combat effectiveness of the [-]th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, but the development potential of this unit. Tojo-kun, you don't know that the [-]th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army is already in Jin An arsenal was built in the northwest, and the machinery and equipment for the arsenal were snatched from Taiyuan last time."

"What?" Hideki Tojo said in horror, "An arsenal was built?"

"Yes, they built an arsenal." Neiji Okamura said, "If they fully utilize the production capacity, it will be enough to produce tens of millions of rounds of bullets and hundreds of thousands of shells a year!"

Speaking of this, Okamura Ningji said in a more emphatic tone: "Tojo-kun, you might as well imagine how much damage will be caused to the imperial army with the powerful combat power of the [-]th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army and sufficient ammunition supply? Om?"

Hideki Tojo couldn't help but gasped when he heard the words, it was terrible.

Chapter 523

"Mr. Okamura, I admit that what you said is reasonable." Hideki Tojo said solemnly, "I also admit that I underestimated the [-]th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army before."

After a pause, he continued, "But ten divisions are too many, right?"

"A lot? Actually not much." Okamura Neiji said quietly, "Tojo-kun, you should have heard of the Chinese allusion of the lion fighting the rabbit, right?"

Hideki Tojo said in a deep voice, "I don't want to hear these vain things."

"Then let me tell you about the parameters based on actual combat." Neiji Okamura said in a deep voice, "The latest battle in Northwest Shanxi took place less than two months ago."

"During this battle, the No.60 Ninth Division of the Imperial Army was completely wiped out."

"What's even more shocking is that the No.60 Ninth Division was still wiped out in the defensive battle."

"According to the general rule, the attacker must concentrate at least three times the superiority of troops before it is possible to carry out a war of encirclement and annihilation."