Plan Eagle.
[General principles: According to the established strategy of the dispatch army headquarters, this encirclement and suppression will gather all the elite forces in the entire theater of operations. Each department must use a brand-new strategy and tactics to achieve the goal of heavily striking the Eighth Route Division in North China, so that they will never be able to turn the tables…]
Plan Eagle's specific implementation plan:
First, concentrate the superior forces from east to west to cut off the so-called base areas of the Eighth Route from north to south, reducing the depth of their activities.
2. Relying on our military's advantage in mobility, we should adopt the tactics of 'pulling the net' and 'combing the comb', and then combine them with the strategy of encircling them with iron walls. We should compress the leading organs and main forces of the eight routes into the heart of the Taihang Mountains from all directions, then encircle them from all sides and annihilate them.
Third, thoroughly implement the "three light" policy of burning, killing, and looting, aimed at destroying the consolidated areas of the Eighth Route Army's anti-Japanese base areas and creating a thousand miles of no man's land. In order to cut off the supply of the eight routes and their retreat.
Fourth, I will clearly define my duties and goals. All the troops of the First Army must set up an arson team to burn down all kinds of facilities. The search team would search for and excavate the buried resources. The hunting team was in charge of clearing the village and searching the mountains to capture unruly people.
Troop allocation:
South Taihang region
1. The 21st Division will attack from the east along the Pingwu Road. The 33rd Division attacked from the west along the Pingwu Road. The two divisions must complete the docking within the stipulated time limit and defend the area along the attack route. They must not allow any connection between the north and south.
The 2nd and 35th divisions were in charge of encircling the 8th base area in the north.
3. Become an independent 9th Brigade and immediately head to the front line of Wuxiang. The 16th Independent Mixed Brigade immediately went to the front line of Yushe and cooperated with the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade to complete the encirclement and suppression of the 8th Base Area in the south.
The two original stations were guarded by the garrison brigade.
North Taihang region
1st, 36th division…
This plan was not very perfect. Many specific details were not clearly stated. It was obviously a temporary plan.
The Japanese generals present had just been summoned back in a hurry. Many of them did not know what had happened, so they were all dumbfounded after reading the plan.
Only Kaoru from the 4th independent exploration team knew what was going on, but he was also confused. In his opinion, Commander Shinozuka Yoshio should not have done this.
Major General Kenji Ikegami, the regiment commander of the 9th mixed regiment, was the first to ask,""I'm sorry, Your Excellency Commander, Your Excellency Chief of Staff. As far as I know, there are not many base areas in the south of Pingwu Road after the big sweep half a year ago. There are not many main forces in the eighth route anymore.”
"That's right. Our North Taihang region is the gathering point of the main forces of the Eighth Route Army. Why is it that two-thirds of our forces are placed in the South Taihang region?”Lieutenant General Jing Guanren of the 36th division also didn't understand.
Shinozuka Yoshio's face darkened even more when he heard his subordinate's doubts.
Chief of Staff Kobayashi hurriedly said,""Everyone, you have to understand that the Eighth Route Army is now the biggest threat to our North China. Moreover, their combat strength is not weak under the circumstances of relying on favorable terrain. Therefore, we should be prepared to swallow them step by step, rather than having the idea of eating them all at once. That is unrealistic and contrary to the policy of the dispatch army headquarters.”
"I understand. Your Excellency wants to stabilize the security area south of Pingwu Road with absolute advantage this time so as to gradually reduce the scope of activity of the eighth route.”Hyun-gil's mind automatically filled up.
"Yes, Ikegami-kun really understands the commander's thoughts.”Xiao Lin beamed with joy as he praised this eye-catching pond. Originally, he really did not know how to convince this group of people.
Shinozuka Yoshio's expression softened a little as well. He nodded slightly at Kenichi Ikegami to show that he had a good impression of him.
This made Kenichi Ikegami so happy that he almost stood up. He felt that if the commander began to value him, his future career might be smooth sailing.
After receiving this explanation, the others naturally wouldn't ask for a snub.
After the meeting ended, Shinozuka Yoshio signaled for Kobayashi to ask the 21st Division's Major General Tanaka Hisashi, the 33rd Division's Major General Sakurai Shozo, Kenji Ikegami, Kaoru Kawamura, and the 16th Brigade's regiment commander, Reiji Wakamatsu, to stay behind.
He turned around and left.
Kobayashi naturally knew Shinozuka Yoshio's intentions, so he first explained the matter of Yamamoto Ichiki to the five of them.
Then, he said," Everyone, the Commander's meaning is very clear. This time, you must annihilate all the eight routes south of Pingwu Road, especially Li Yunlong's independent regiment. I hope that one of you can bring Li Yunlong's head to the Commander's desk within a month.”
After saying that, he added solemnly,"The commander said that whoever can take Li Yunlong's head will be rewarded with 500,000 yuan and report to the headquarters to apply for special merit points.”
Hearing this, the five people present all revealed mysterious smiles. To them, 500,000 yuan was actually nothing. Each of them had looted at least a few million yuan in China.
What they cared about the most was the honor of special grade contribution points.
The future of a person with this honor was limitless.
Not to mention anything else, Okamura Yasuji had become a general because of this merit and was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the front army. What an honor it was.
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