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In order to win this battle, Okamura Neji also spent a lot of money!
He not only used the entire 27th, 35th, and 110th Divisions directly under the North China Front, and one section each of the 26th, 36th, 37th, and 41st Divisions, as well as some independent mixed brigades, plus puppet troops and deployed troops, totaling about 100,000 people.
In terms of external publicity, Okamura Neiji also went to great lengths to exaggerate and brag, firmly controlling public opinion, and arrogantly called this raid a "million-dollar war."
In order to further boost morale, he also went to the front line to express condolences to the combat troops.
On November 2, the day after the combat order was issued, he first flew to Shijiazhuang and inspected the 110th Division.
¡°Immediately afterwards, he took an armored vehicle to Jinxian to inspect the 35th Division, and the next day he went to Tianjin to inspect the 27th Division stationed there.
And Chief of Staff Anda Twenty-san was ordered to guard Laiyuan for a long time and be responsible for the preparations for the front line.
Under the personal deployment of Okamura Neiji, the largest "big sweep" in the history of the Japanese army was like a boundless dark cloud, pressing heavily towards the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region and pointing directly at the Eighth Route Army's Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.
The focus of the Japanese attack was Beiyue District, the center of the border area. Okamura Neiji's ambition was clear in his attempt to gather the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Beiyue District and the military and political leaders of the border area to annihilate them on both sides of the Inner and Outer Great Wall.
Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei was the earliest anti-Japanese base area established behind enemy lines for the Eighth Route Army. It relied on the Beiyue area surrounded by the Hengshan and Taihang mountains as the center. The Jizhong and Jidong plains, which are rich in products and have a large population, served as bases for cotton grain and soldiers, posing a direct threat. Manchuria, the rear area of ??the Japanese army that invaded China and the Soviet Union.
Furthermore, this unit had deep mass mobilization and strong military strength. It was recognized as a model anti-Japanese base area at that time.
In fact, the top brass of the Japanese army have long been eyeing this unit, especially during Tada Shun's period. In order to consolidate its rear, the Japanese army would conduct a "mopping up" campaign against Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei almost every year in the spring and autumn.
But whether it was Juichi Terauchi's nine-way siege, Sugiyama Gen's "separate attack and combined attack", or Tada Shun's "cage policy", they all ended in failure.
In the autumn of 1941, the Japanese base camp decided to launch the so-called "Greater East Asia Holy War". In order to consolidate its base, Shun Tada was replaced and the so-called "China expert" Okamura Neiji, who had experience in fighting the Chinese army in central China, was appointed as the commander of the North China Front. .
During Shun Tada¡¯s tenure, Adachi Twenty-san, Chief of Staff of the North China Front, had already begun formulating an autumn ¡°mopping up¡± operational plan for the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Beiyue District.
After taking office, Okamura summed up the lessons from the failed "mopping up" operations of Sugiyama and Tada. In addition to politically strengthening the security strengthening campaign and threatening and deceiving the people of the occupied areas from political, economic, cultural and other aspects, in order to eliminate our Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei The Eighth Route Army adopted tactical tactics such as "iron wall encirclement", "comb grate suppression", "horseshoe-shaped fortress line" and "torpedo-type encirclement array".
Prepare to "sweep" Beiyue District in three steps, in an attempt to eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route Army and capture the party, government and military leaders in the border area.
This executioner, whose hands are stained with the blood of the Chinese people, is ready to use this extremely brutal method of warfare to annihilate the Eighth Route Army centered on Mount Wutai in one fell swoop, completely eliminating worries and turning North China into a "depot base" for the Japanese army to launch the Greater East Asia War, plundering local manpower and material resources. resources to serve him as he went south to launch the Pacific War.
The leadership of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region has accumulated rich combat experience in the "mopping up" of the Japanese army. After discovering signs of a large-scale "mopping up" by the Japanese army, it immediately formulated a counter-mopping up plan.
In early November, troops from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region discovered that the Japanese army forcibly built roads and bunkers in the Hebei-Shanxi border areas and gradually advanced with the intention of dividing and blockading the Eighth Route Army.
In response to this, Commander Nie of the military region headquarters immediately gave instructions to organize troops to actively attack the enemy's transportation lines and road construction and fortification troops to thwart his conspiracy.
But soon the Eighth Route Army headquarters realized that something was not quite right. The troops deployed by the Japs this time were a bit unusual. In addition to the more than 20,000 Japanese puppet troops on the Laiyuan front line, they also discovered that two Japanese divisions were transferred north along the Ping-Han Line. , the first unit was transferred west along Deshi Road and repeatedly "mopped up" the areas on both sides of Pinghan Road. It is estimated that a large-scale "mopping up" will be carried out in Beiyue District soon in order to "clarify" North China. The military region is actively making various preparations .
After receiving the telegram from the Eighth Route Army headquarters, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region realized that this would be a tough battle. The military region then convened a combat meeting attended by more than 1,234,5 military and political cadres from each military division to formulate anti-mopping policy.
Commander Nie proposed, this battle must accumulate basic corps, expand guerrilla activities, take advantage of the situation to remove the Japanese strongholds deep into the Eighth Route Army's inner lines, completely destroy its roads, destroy its blockade trenches, increase the difficulty of the enemy's "mopping up", and lay the foundation for our victory in countering "mopping up".
Subsequently, he issued a combat instruction from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region on preparations for counter-"mopping up" in the autumn, pointing out that the enemy's "mopping up" this time would have to be large in force and take a long time, and that the method of "step by step advancement and clearing up by divisions" might be used. The struggle will be particularly brutal.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: Anti-"mopping up" political work instructions were issued one after another, and specific instructions on reconnaissance, communications, supply, and clearing out the country. Order Jizhong to strengthen the "Qingshazhang" offensive to disperse the enemy's forces. Each division organizes armed propaganda teams to strengthen anti-"sweep" propaganda, strictly investigate suspicious elements, and crack down on enemy agent activities.
At the same time, it also instructed the masses to mobilize the masses to break roads and dig ditches, build walls to clear the fields, and evacuate institutions and schools that lack combat capabilities. The combat troops were moved to the outside to intercept the enemy's retreat, rescue the captured cadres and masses, and destroy Enemy the puppet regime and restore the base area.
Of course, when actively preparing for the war, the Eighth Route Army had many grievances about this battle.
They have also investigated clearly. The reason why the Japanese army concentrated so many troops to besiege the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region this time was mainly because Li Guoyao's troops robbed millions of kilograms of grain from the Japs in Laiyuan, which completely angered the Japs.
¡°At that time, all the troops under Li Guoyao were wearing the standard uniforms of the Eighth Route Army, and they were pretending to be the Eighth Route Army. Therefore, Li Guoyao¡¯s troops took the blame for this battle.
Although this matter did not spread very widely, that is, the senior officials of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and several big bosses at the Eighth Route Army headquarters knew about it, it caused dissatisfaction among many people within the Eighth Route Army.
Especially the brigade commanders, regiment commanders and other officers below, they all felt that the beating was a bit unjust, and they took the benefits. In the end, it was their Eighth Route Army who got beaten. What the hell is this?
But soon the Eighth Route Army Headquarters clarified the matter and unified their stance. The Battle of Lingqiu Laiyuan was fought by the Eighth Route Army. It was a battle under the command of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters and a continuation of the attack on the Zhengtai Railway in October.
As for the Japanese retaliatory raids, the Eighth Route Army would not give in and immediately agreed to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region¡¯s counter-mopping plan!
In fact, both the Eighth Route Army Headquarters and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region General Headquarters knew that no matter whether it was the operation conducted by Li Guoyao or not, the little devils would not be able to let go of the Eighth Route Army.
This can be seen from the fact that Okamura Neiji attacked the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei Province as soon as he took office. This old devil is targeting the Eighth Route Army.
?????????? This action by Li Guoyao¡¯s troops just advanced the plan, nothing more, so it is indeed the Eighth Route Army that took the blame for Li Guoyao¡¯s troops in this battle, but the blame was entirely to blame!
What's more, the Japs have already called, and they can only deal with them with all their strength. They can't stop fighting the Japs just because they take the blame!
So, in a noisy situation, an unprecedented scale of mopping up and counter-mopping up war kicked off in northern Shanxi and central Hebei!
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