"Other can it be?"

Tachiko Tanaka said: "After all, the military strength is insufficient."

Takaichi Sakamoto said: "That's right, it's because of insufficient troops. If the 1st Army had enough troops, at least the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi had already been destroyed by the Imperial Army."

Yamamoto Kazuki asked back: "Is it really because of insufficient troops?"

"Isn't it?" Tanaka Takaki asked, "You said just now that the hundreds of small strongholds along the Tongpu Road and the Baijin Line restrained most of the troops, so that the Imperial Army could not concentrate enough troops to carry out large-scale mobilization of various bandit areas of the Eighth Route Army, which gave them a chance."

"No." Yamamoto Ichiki said coldly, "Since the beginning of last year, the North China Front Army launched more than twenty sweeps on various bandit areas of the Eighth Route Army. Although the absolute force of each sweep is not large, it has an absolute advantage on the battlefield. The Eighth Route Army has never dared to confront the Imperial Army head-on. What does this mean?"

"This shows that the number of troops involved in previous sweeps is sufficient."

"The reason why the cage tactics failed to destroy the Eighth Route Army has strengthened them through repeated sweeps is because the tactics of execution are improper!"

Okamura Yasuji asked: "What's wrong with the tactics?"

Yamamoto Kazuki said: "Great General, the Eighth Route Army is different from the Chinese Central Army or the Shanxi Sui Army. The Chinese Central Army or the Shanxi Sui Army are keen on positional warfare and often concentrates the main forces on the front, but ignores the protection of the flanks and behind them. The Imperial Army only needs to send a small force to detour on the flanks, and the Chinese Central Army or the Shanxi Sui Army will be shaken on the whole line, or even collapse on the whole line."

"Not bad." Okamura Yasuji nodded, "This is true in the Battle of Songhu, Xuzhou, and Xinkou."

Yamamoto Kazuki said again: "But the Eighth Route Army is not like this. The Eighth Route Army almost never engages in positional wars with the Imperial Army, or never engages in head-on confrontation with the Imperial Army. They generally only use ambush wars to fight the Imperial Army. After the expansion, most of the Eighth Route Army only use sparrow wars and guerrilla wars to fight the Imperial Army."

"Is the Eighth Route Army really choosing such a tactic because of its weak combat power?"

"No, if the Eighth Route Army concentrates its forces, the Eighth Route Army is actually capable of conducting positional wars with the Imperial Army's sweeping troops, but the Eighth Route Army rarely does this, almost nothing."

"At most, it's just a few small-scale blocking battles when you have no choice."

"The Eighth Route Army's tactics are essentially different from the Chinese Central Army and the Jinsui Army."

"The Central Army of China and the Shanxi Sui Army pursued the tactics of passive defense, but the Eighth Route Army implemented the tactics of active defense. What is passive defense? What is active defense?"

"Passive defense means passive defense, occupying the defense line and waiting for the Imperial Army to fight. When the Imperial Army fights over, defend it if it can, retreat. If it cannot, retreat to the next line of defense and defend it again and again, retreating again and again, retreating from Manchukuo to the Yellow River, retreating to central China, retreating to the southwest, and retreating to only half of China."

"Active defense means getting out of the front, letting the main force of the Imperial Army pass, and specifically attacking the Imperial Army's baggage."

"When the Imperial Army launched a sweeping war, the Eighth Route Army was the same. When the main force of the Imperial Army came over, the Eighth Route Army immediately scattered. When the main force of the Imperial Army came over, the Eighth Route Army immediately gathered troops to launch a fierce offensive against the Imperial Army's baggage troops or small units, so they could always succeed."

"Success once or twice, there is no big problem."

"But ten or eight times add up, it will be an unbearable loss for the Imperial Army."

"So every time I sweep the imperial army entered the bandit area with high fighting spirit, but finally retreated to the public security consolidation area in shame."

"In a word, before fighting against the Imperial Army, the first thing the Eighth Route Army considered was not to attack the Imperial Army, but how to minimize its own losses in battle! This is very troublesome."

"The Imperial Army is very uncomfortable with this guerrilla tactic of gathering and dispersing at times."

"So, the multiple sweeps from last year to this year have not only failed to eliminate the Eighth Route Army, but have instead made the Eighth Route Army grow and grow day by day. This is really a pity."

After saying this, Yamamoto Kazuki said again: "So, the Imperial Army must innovate its tactics."

"The Imperial Army must find a tactic that is sufficient to resolve or even counter the Eighth Route Army's guerrilla tactics."

"Otherwise, tragedies like Yamazaki Brigade will continue to happen, and the raids of various bandit areas of the Eighth Route Army will not have a good effect, and the Eighth Route Army will continue to grow."

"Until the Imperial Army was finally driven out of the financial situation."

Hearing this, Okamura Yanji felt a little uncomfortable.

At this moment, Okamura Nishi frowned and said, "Yamamoto, just talk about the key points and talk about your new tactics!"

However, Yamamoto Kazuki didn't say much this time, but walked to the safe next to take out a file bag, then walked to Okamura Yasuji to hand over the file bag.

"Oh, has it been written?"

Okamura Yanji was a little surprised and a little surprised.

This shows that Yamamoto Ichiki really took some thought.

...

Riding on the King, Wang Ye soon arrived at the headquarters.

Wang Ye has been to the headquarters twice and is already familiar with it.

When I walked into the headquarters war room, I found that the boss was not there, but the deputy chief of staff and division commander were there, and there were two staff officers who were looking at him with scrutiny.

Wang Ye could also guess what these two advisers were thinking.

Needless to say, these two staff officers must be dissatisfied.

Why can your surname Wang get such importance to the leader?

Just because you are a professional student who graduated from the Berlin Military Academy?

So what if you graduate from Military Academy? We have seen many people with great abilities.

Wang Ye was too lazy to pay attention to the two guys, so he walked to the division commander and the deputy chief of staff and stood attentively and saluted: "Report to the chief, Wang Ye was ordered to report to him, please instruct."

The division commander and the deputy chief of staff both stood up and returned to salute.

The teacher smiled gently and said, "Xiao Wang, you came quite quickly."

Wang Ye also smiled and said, "The leader is summoned, then I must come here quickly."

"Time is tight, so I'll tell you a long story short." The Deputy Chief of Staff nodded, "In the past two months, the Japanese have suffered several losses under our command, especially the Hundred Regiments Battle, which has hurt them and been afraid of them, so it is completely foreseeable that the Japanese will definitely launch large-scale revenge next."

The division commander continued: "We estimate that the Japanese will launch a major raid around October."

The head of the headquarters is estimated to be similar to Ding Wei's, and his vision is quite accurate.

The Deputy Chief of Staff continued: "The scale and intensity of the Japanese sweep will definitely be far beyond the past, so we must do the combat preparations in advance."

The division commander took over the conversation again and said, "We are actually very familiar with the anti-sweeping operations."

"We have also summarized a complete set of effective response methods. Even if the scale and intensity of the Japanese sweep this time will be far beyond the past, it will be no big deal."

The Deputy Chief of Staff continued: "But now a new situation has emerged."

"Our water waist arsenal has begun to take shape now, so we can no longer leave all the assets and leave as we used to, but we must stick to it as much as possible!"

"Even if you still have to evacuate in the end, you must leave enough time."

"This means fighting a difficult positional battle with the Japanese."

Speaking of this, the Deputy Chief of Staff turned his head and looked at the two unconvincing combat staff, and said: "We have rich experience in formulating a combat plan for guerrilla warfare, but positional warfare is a brand new question for us because we have never been exposed to it before."

"Xiao Wang, you are a top student who graduated from the Berlin Military Academy."

"In the Military Academy, you must have studied Fortress Defense."

"I'm asking you to come this time, I hope you can lead us to formulate an effective defense plan, and it's best to keep the Japanese outside the Shuiyao Mountain. If you really can't stop it, you have to leave enough time for the relocation of the arsenal. In short, there must be no accidents in the personnel and equipment of the arsenal!"

“This is a political task that must be completed!”

"Yes!" Wang Ye said, "Please ensure that the task is completed!"

The Deputy Chief of Staff pointed at the two staff members and said, "Xiao Wang, come on, let me introduce you to Chen Mingli and Ma Yuan, in the next few days, they will cooperate with you."

After saying that, the Deputy Chief of Staff said to the two again: "Staff General Chen and Staff General Ma, you two must fully cooperate with Captain Wang to carry out their work. No matter what he asks you two to do, you must obey unconditionally."

"Yes!" Staff Chief Chen and Staff Ma were still very enlightened.

Although he was dissatisfied, he firmly obeyed the orders.

The commander asked Wang Ye: "Xiao Wang, do you have any difficulties?"

"I have no difficulties." Wang Ye stood upright, "Teacher, I still said the same thing as before, I guarantee to complete the task!"

"Hahaha, OK, the boss is indeed not wrong with you!" said the division commander happily, "Then three days later, the Deputy Chief of Staff, and the boss are waiting to see your masterpiece."

Wang Ye smiled and said, "Secretary, please walk slowly, and the Deputy Chief of Staff will walk slowly."

The division commander left, the deputy chief of staff also left, and only Wang Ye, Chen Mingli and Ma Yuan were left in the war room.

"Staff Officer Chen, please sort out the material list at the headquarters." Wang Yezhen did not treat himself as an outsider and directly started to recruit Chen Mingli and two of them. "Staff Officer Ma, please draw a map of Shuyao Mountain, which costs ten thousand times the ratio. By the way, one may not be enough, so I'd better draw two first."

Chen Mingli and Ma Yuan rolled their eyes,

But still do as you please.

...

Taiyuan, Grand Suite on the third floor of the Great East Asia Hotel.

After taking a bath, Okamura Yasuji returned to the living room and saw that the hour hand of the wall clock was already pointing to two o'clock in the morning.

This day really made him exhausted, but after taking a hot bath, he became refreshed again, and he could maintain this state for at least two hours.

At this time, Miyano Doichi was sitting upright on the leather sofa reading the documents.

This document is the new tactic that Yamamoto Kazuki gave to Okamura Yamamura last night.

After Okamura Yiji sat down and made tea, Miyano Doichi finally finished watching.

"Miyono, you've finally finished reading it, haha," Okamura said with a smile, "From the length of time you took to read this combat plan, I knew you must be supporting it."

"Because you always read a file with ten lines at a glance."

“It will only slow down reading when you encounter something you are interested in.”

Miyano Daochi paused slightly and said, "In a nutshell, this combat plan of Yamamoto, is actually to vigorously promote his special operations throughout the battlefield in North China."
To be continued...