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Chapter 1013: New Year¡¯s Drama (1)

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    Although Li Guoyao felt very aggrieved that the troops were beaten by his own people, looking at this battle in Luxi, the results of the troops were brilliant.

    In less than ten days, Li Guoyao's troops captured a total of 24 towns, large and small, including 7 large cities above the county seat, annihilated more than 5,000 Japanese and puppet troops, and seized a large amount of weapons, equipment, food supplies, etc., and  The casualties were very small.

    So far, the number of troops of the Shandong Guerrilla Corps in southwestern Shandong has increased to more than 7,000, which is 3,000 more than when they arrived. In a word, they are making a lot of money!

    However, with the Japanese counterattack, most of the previously captured towns were reoccupied by the Japs. On the surface, the situation in Luxi has returned to its previous state. Li Guoyao and others seem to have done some useless work.

    But Li Guoyao himself knew that some things should not be taken at face value. Although they seemed to have lost all the towns at the moment, in fact the impact of this battle had just begun.

    In the past, the little devils went on a rampage in Luxi. No one dared to provoke them, and the people even trembled when they saw them.

    But after this battle, the common people saw the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army and knew that the country had not given up on them, which inspired their passion for resistance and confidence in overthrowing Japanese imperialism.

    "In addition, the troops are now scattered to the countryside below. It will not be easy for the little devils to eliminate them, especially with the support of the people, it is like a fish with water, it will surely take root in the Luxi area.

    The development of the matter was similar to what Li Guoyao expected. Although the little devils chased the Guantao area in the next few days, they could not find any trace of Lu Zhanwu and others. Lu Zhanwu and others continued to provoke in small teams.  The nerves of the Chichai Regiment were either to attack strongholds or build artillery towers. Even individual soldiers would give the little Japanese a cold sniper kill. The Japanese soldiers were beaten up and down, but there was nothing they could do!

    But just when Li Guoyao thought that the Japanese troops in Jinan would continue to increase their troops in Guanxian and Guantao, he received urgent news from the troops in southwest Shandong, saying that two infantry regiments of the Japanese Tenth Division in Jining City  The team traveled south from Jining and headed straight for Juye.

    At the same time, the Japanese 17th Division located in Haizhou City, Lianyungang, also moved westward. It seemed that it was heading for Xuzhou and Zaozhuang, and its final destination may even be southwest Shandong.

    Li Guoyao looked at the map and realized that the Japanese army's plan this time was not small. Although the 10th Division was transferred to an infantry regiment and a cavalry regiment, as a four-unit field division, its total strength was  There are still more than 15,000 people, not much worse than a three-unit subsequent garrison division.

    The 17th Division on the southern front is not a vegetarian. It is also among the best in terms of combat power among all the three-unit divisions. These two divisions attacked the national army in southwest Shandong from the south and the north. This gave the southern front  The pressure caused by the troops is not small.

    Although Wen Debiao's headquarters has received support from various columns, its field brigades have reached 12, with a total strength of more than 19,000 people, but it is still inferior to the Japanese army.

    Fortunately, Li Guoyao did not require them to defend Heze and other towns. He only needed to drag the two divisions of the little devil in southwest Shandong.

    Li Guoyao's policy in fighting Japan was very clear, which was to avoid the real situation and use the imaginary. When the main force of the Japanese army came to attack, they would avoid it if they could, but delay it as much as possible if they could not avoid it, and then go to the outside to find a solution.

    Anyway, the Japs only have so few troops, but their territory is ridiculously large. If they want to concentrate their forces to launch an attack, they must mobilize troops from other places. This will inevitably leave some places with empty defenses, and thus there will be defense loopholes.

    At this time, if you use the loopholes of the Japanese army to attack them, the effect will definitely be surprisingly good!

    Taking this battle as an example, the Japs originally planned to concentrate their forces to attack southwestern Shandong, but in the end they transferred troops from western Shandong, which gave Li Guoyao's troops the opportunity to attack western Shandong.

    Since the Japs don¡¯t plan to kill all the troops in Lu Xi, Li Guoyao is not polite and will give the Japs another carbine.

    And just when Li Guoyao's troops were locked in a deadly fight with the Japanese troops in Shandong, the China Expeditionary Forces Headquarters also issued a new combat order to the Japanese troops in central China - capture Yichang!

    After the Chinese army's winter offensive, Nishio Juzo felt a deep threat, which also made the Japanese military leaders realize that the resistance of the Chinese government was getting stronger and stronger. The most important thing was that at this time, the Japanese army had completely stopped withdrawing troops from China.  Therefore, if you want to force the Chinese government to surrender, you need to carry out military strikes.

    The plan to withdraw troops from China was proposed in 1939.?The drought in Japan has directly affected military production and cannot meet the predetermined targets. After the abolition of the "U.S-Japan Trade Treaty", the number of imports has dropped sharply, which has seriously affected the development of Japan's military and civilian economy.

    In terms of foreign relations, Japan not only had armed conflicts with the Soviet Union, but also directly confronted each other in the Battle of Nomenkan. Now it has entered a dangerous stage with Britain, the United States, France and other countries, which puts Japan in danger of being surrounded by enemies on all sides.  situation.

    Based on the above situation, the Japanese base camp immediately proposed to reduce the army, save military expenses, and step up the development and production of new weapons; strategically, it accumulated strength and prepared to attack not only the Soviet Union, but also the United Kingdom and the United States.

    Based on this, the Japanese Army Ministry proposed a streamlined plan, that is, on the one hand, it will continue to release the atmosphere of peace talks, and at the same time, it will carry out pseudo activities to use China to control China, expand the puppet army, support the puppet regime, and step up the development and plunder of strategic materials in North China and other places.

    On the other hand, it is planned to reduce the number of troops on the battlefield inside China's customs from 850,000 to 700,000 by the end of 1939, to 500,000 by the end of 1940, and to 400,000 by the end of 1941.

    ¡°However, what the Japanese base camp did not expect was that their considerations were completely opposite to those of their commanders in China.

    As the command center, they still have to have a broader vision and can consider issues from an overall strategic perspective. However, those front-line commanders do not understand the entire situation of the dangerous ship of the Japanese Empire, which is about to hit a giant reef.

    The commanders on the ground believe that not only cannot we reduce the number of troops in China at present, but we should also increase the number of troops and continue to launch large-scale attacks in China's rear area in order to eliminate the main force of the Chinese field army, expand the occupied area, and make the Chinese government, military and civilians  Losing a stable anti-Japanese base in order to completely solve the China problem.

    Even the commander of the Kwantung Army, Kenkichi Ueda, believed that the reason why China was able to carry out the long-term war of resistance was closely related to the Soviet Union¡¯s massive military assistance and moral support. A large number of Soviet air forces had already fought on the Chinese battlefield in the name of volunteers.  In order to fight against Japan, we should take advantage of the temporary silence on the Chinese battlefield to launch the Nomenkan War in May last year.

    In addition, representatives who actively advocated continuing to launch large-scale offensives within China's borders include Okamura Neiji, commander of the 11th Army stationed in Wuhan. In his "Opinion on the Rapid Resolution of the Japan-China Incident" reported to the base camp at the end of 1939, he stated: "  At present, China has various anti-Japanese forces, but its core is the Central Army ruled by graduates of Huangpu Military Academy. Therefore, in order to solve the China problem, we must actively fight to annihilate the main force of the Central Army and expand the occupied area. At present, we should attack Changsha,  Hengyang and occupy Yichang, and cooperate with the North China Front to open the railway from Xinyang north to Zhengzhou."

    Okamura also believes that a long and protracted war will do a lot of harm to the Japanese Empire. Small-scale operations and inducement activities cannot solve China's problems. Only large-scale attacks can hope to solve China's problems.

    Finally, Okamura also quoted a passage from Sun Tzu's "Combat Chapter" in the Art of War to illustrate his point of view, that is, "the use of warfare is to blunt the troops and defeat the enemy for a long time; to siege a city will weaken the force; to attack the division for a long time will be insufficient for the country.  If a blunt soldier frustrates the enemy and sacrifices his strength, then the feudal lords will take advantage of the disadvantage and rise up. Even if there are wise men, they will not be able to follow him. Therefore, if the soldiers know that they are clumsy and quick, they will not be able to see the skill. If the soldiers last long and the country benefits, there will be no such thing.  also!"

    These views of Okamura Neiji are also supported by the Commander-in-Chief of the China Expeditionary Forces Nisio Hiszo and Chief of General Staff Seishiro Itagaki.

    It was precisely due to the opposition of the battlefield commanders, coupled with the Japanese army's disastrous defeat in the Nomonhan area and the German army's attack on Poland in Europe, that the Japanese army headquarters finally planned to streamline the army, save military expenses, develop new weapons, etc.  , failed to materialize at the end of 1939.

    Since the troops cannot be withdrawn, the only thing they can do is to attack. In addition, the Japanese army noticed that the Chinese government intended to counterattack Wuhan. In order to prevent the 11th Army from being attacked on a large scale by the Chinese army, the Chinese Dispatch Army Headquarters decided to use  This army was the main force, that is, it concentrated its forces to attack the Zaoyang, Tanghe, and Xinye areas northwest of Wuhan in multiple directions in an attempt to defeat the 5th Theater and the main force of Tang Enbo's 31st Group Army. After that, it suddenly changed the direction of the attack and crossed the Han River to capture the Yangtze River.  Yichang on the north shore threatened China's wartime capital of Chongqing.

    Such a large-scale mobilization of troops, coupled with the Japanese attack on southern Shanxi and southwestern Shandong by the Japanese army in North China, the Japanese army on the northern and southern fronts were fully equipped with firepower, which can be called the opening drama of 1940!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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