Chapter 448 This task is handed over to you
This time, the Independent Regiment seized a Type 92 infantry cannon, six mortars, 21 crooked machine guns, and more than 1,400 guns of various types. The ammunition has not been counted yet. Of course, there are also a large number of other military supplies.
Among these military supplies, there are two radio stations. The heads of the military sub-district have always hoped to get the radio station, which can make them happy now.
Not only that, this time, a total of 360,000 oceans of money were confiscated from the Japanese army, and the independent regiment was divided into 180,000 oceans.
Chen Zhiyong, Li Yao and the Independent Group suddenly became nouveau riche. They finally held a celebration banquet in a grand manner and welcomed the Taohua Mountain guerrillas with great face.
In order to avoid alarming the enemy, the Taohuashan guerrillas did not dispatch cars. After receiving the order, Li Chengwu drove the Taohuashan guerrillas from Taoyuan Town. The Taohuashan guerrillas had more than 30 cars. Gao Jiu and others seized six trucks and five motorcycles in the copper mine and county town this time. These vehicles were not distributed to the independent regiment, and the Taohuashan guerrillas had strengthened the Taohuashan guerrillas' convoy.
Chen Zhiyong, Li Yao and the officers and soldiers of the Independent Regiment were envious when they saw the mighty convoy of the Taohua Mountain guerrillas.
Even if they envy them, they had no choice, because no one in the Independent Regiment could drive cars, and the area they were in could not have large equipment like cars, which would expose their targets. The officers and soldiers could only sigh at the awesomeness of the Taohua Mountain Guerrillas.
The Taohua Mountain Guerrillas were about to leave. Chen Zhiyong held Gao Jiu's hand and said excitedly: "Jiu Master, thank you so much. If you have any combat missions in the future, please be sure to bring our independent regiment."
Gao Jiu smiled and said, "It must."
After saying that, he waved to greet the officers and soldiers of the Independent Regiment and left with the Taohua Mountain guerrillas.
Chen Zhiyong and Li Yao sent Gao Jiu and others away, hurried back to the regiment headquarters to appreciate the spoils they seized.
The Taohua Mountain guerrillas attacked the Japanese copper mine, which really annoyed the senior officials of the 12th Army of the Japanese army. The copper mine was directly under the command of the 12th Army and was one of their small treasurys.
The Taohua Mountain Guerrillas used to kill a lot of Japanese devils, and the losses were not too great for the 12th Army, because these armies could be supplemented.
The situation in Wangjiaao copper mine is different. This is the cheese from the 12th Army Headquarters. The Taohuashan guerrillas moved their cheese, which really hurt them.
Jinan, the 12th Army Command.
General Haneda, Chief of Staff, convened the 114th Division, the 8th Division, and the 3rd Army Air Force to prepare to attack Taohua Mountain.
The Jinan Military Police Command was also invited to attend the meeting, and Hamada Yoshihiro once again received attention.
General Haneda said angrily: "A small Taohuashan bandit armed forces have repeatedly caused huge damage to the Huang army. Taohuashan is a cancer of the public security of the Huang army in Shandong. They must be eliminated resolutely and thoroughly."
After he roared, he asked the superiors attending the meeting to express their opinions.
Shigeji Momatsu, the commander of the 114th Division, also cursed the Taohuashan You team like General Haneda, but did not put forward any constructive opinions.
For him, it was a headache to hear the name Gao Jiu. He had no confidence in defeating Gao Jiu, and he was really unwilling to touch Gao Jiu's bad temper again.
Lieutenant General Masato, the commander of the 8th Division, looked at Shigeji Momatsu, the commander of the 114th Division with sympathy, and just nodded to express his consent and did not express any comments.
Honda Masato seemed to think that this matter had nothing to do with him. With an attitude of not being concerned about his own affairs, he was unwilling to fight the Taohuashan guerrillas.
The division commander, Masato Honta and Akiyama Brigade Commander both came from the Hirosaki Non-Commissioner School in Japan. Masato Honta was the squadron leader of the student team in the school, and Akiyama was a student in his team. The two had a very close relationship. After the commander of the Akiyama Brigade Meeting with Takaji, he secretly told Masato Honta about his experience.
Honda Masato had long heard of the reputation of the Taohuashan guerrillas, especially Gao Jiu, who was elusive. He could touch Akiyama's dormitory and quietly touch Honda Masato's residence. If he annoyed Gao Jiu, he would probably have no place to hide in this world like Akira Hamasaki. So he acquiesced to the secret agreement reached by Akiyama and Gao Jiu.
Now that he heard that he was going to Taohua Mountain to find trouble for Gao Jiu, he had made up his mind and would not participate in any case.
The two division commanders hummed and haha, which made General Haneda very angry, but it was not easy to get into trouble. General Haneda was a lieutenant general, and these two division commanders were both rank lieutenant general. For the 12th Army, the two permanent divisions were the ones that supported the scene, which annoyed them, and the 12th Army would not have a good time in the future.
General Haneda felt a headache and didn't know how to proceed. At this time, he saw Yoshihiro Hamada. Although the idea that this guy had was bad every time, he could still come up with some ideas.
He said: "Hamada, you are the most familiar with the situation in Taohuashan. Do you have any suggestions for dealing with these bandits?"
Hamada Yoshihiro had already formulated a combat plan. When he heard General Haneda's name, he stood up immediately. As soon as he was about to speak, he found that the two division commanders, the two division chiefs, and other generals from the 12th Army Command were looking at him.
The eyes of these people looked weird, conveying various signals, including contempt, anger, contempt, disgust, distrust, etc., and it is not a good word to say it.
All the plans proposed by Hamada Yoshihiro were in trouble, and every time, only this guy was able to come back safely. Some people even suspected that he was colluding with Gao Jiu, the Taohuashan Guerrillas. Who dared to trust such a guy?
Hamada Yoshiji was a little scared. He turned his head and looked at General Matsuda. General Matsuda's eyes were firm and obviously supporting him.
Hamada Yoshiji was in a better mood. He cleared his throat and was about to speak when he was interrupted.
Shigeji Momatsu, the head of the 114th Division, said: "Yizhi Hamada, what do you, the chief of the special high school department, do? The information provided every time has many loopholes, and the combat plan formulated is completely unreliable."
Speaking of this, he said to Chief of Staff Haneda: "His Excellency Chief of Staff, every combat plan formulated by Yoshihiro Hamada is a huge disaster for the Huang army. If he were to formulate the combat plan, the 114th Division would refuse to implement the orders of the 12th Army Command."
This time, he slapped Hamada Yoshihiro in the face in public. His skin turned out to be very white, and then he turned red with shame. He was stunned and didn't know what to do.
Colonel Isoda Saburo, chief of staff of the 114th Division, especially hated Himada Yoshihiro. It was precisely because of the implementation of Hamada Yoshihiro's plan that his brother-in-law, Yamamoto Shigetsu Nakasa Yamamoto, died in southwest Shandong because of his implementation of Hamada Yoshihiro's plan.
Following the words of the division commander Shigeji Momatsu, Saburo Isoda said: "Yizhi Hamada, why does the combat plan you formulated every time have caused huge losses to the Huang army? I really doubt your loyalty to the Great Japanese Empire. Perhaps you are a spy bought by Gao Jiu, who sent the soldiers of the Huang army to a desperate situation again and again, and ruined the prestige of the Great Japanese Huang army.
You'd better not report any plan. If you implement your plan, the soldiers of the Huang army will commit suicide. Our 114th Division will definitely not adopt your opinion."
Hamada Yoshihiro was so embarrassed that he wanted to find a crack in the ground.
General Haneda was also very embarrassed. Although he rationally believed that Hamada Yoshihiro knew the situation in Momohua Mountain best and the combat deployment he made was closest to reality, what Shigeji Sumatsu and Saburo Isoda made was also very reasonable. Hamada Yoshihiro was a disaster star, and he was a little reluctant to listen to Hamada Yoshihiro's words.
General Matsuda was the most rational among this group of people. He firmly believed that only Hamada Yoshihiro knew the situation of the Taohuashan guerrillas best. He had read the combat plan proposed by Hamada Yoshihiro in advance, believing that this was the only feasible way to deal with the Taohuashan guerrillas.
He said to Hamada Yoshihiro, "You sit down first."
Then, he said sincerely: "Dear generals! I can understand everyone's mood. The Taohua Mountain Bandits Gang did cause huge harm to the Huang army, and it is inevitable that everyone will be in a mood.
Hamada Yoshiji is my subordinate, and I know him very well. Among all of you here, he has been dealing with Gao Jiu's bandits, and only he knows the situation the most. He has formulated a new combat plan, which I have seen, and I think is feasible.
I suggest that you might as well listen to his plan and discuss it around his plan. You can put forward any different opinions.
Hamada Yoshihiro’s plan is for your reference only. If you think it is inappropriate, you can reject it. Generals, what do you think?"
General Matsuda was highly educated and was respected by his colleagues in his manners. Seeing that he was so sincere, everyone stopped talking.
General Haneda said again: "Hamada, just tell me your plan."
Hamada Yoshihiro also felt that he was a little troublesome. He was passionate and was full of confidence when he made the plan. However, after the scene just now, he began to feel a little discouraged. He was really worried that if the plan failed again, he might have no place to stand in the 12th Army.
He wanted to give up, but when General Haneda named him again, he had to stand up again.
He gritted his teeth and plucked up the courage and said, "The bandits of Taohua Mountain are not bandits in the usual sense, but bandits with special skills who have been strictly trained. Their personal combat skills are very superb, which is not inferior to the soldiers of the Great Japanese Yellow Army. They are good at various sneak attacks and have excellent equipment, far exceeding the regular troops of the Great Japanese Yellow Army."
Hamada Yoshihiro's words were somewhat suspicious of making others more ambitious and destroying his own majesty. If it were the usual, he would have been scolded. However, everyone present was impressed by the Taohuashan guerrillas, so no one cared about Hamada Yoshihiro's attitude.
Yoshihiko Hamada continued: "The bandits in Taohua Mountain, especially their commander Gao Jiu, are good at various sneak attack tactics. When facing the large army of our army, they often sneak attacks the Yellow Army from unexpected places, constantly consuming our army's vitality. Our army usually has no time to counterattack, and the enemy has already left.
After many attacks, our army's vitality has been decreasing, and it was finally destroyed by the enemy."
The words summarized by Hamada Yoshihiro made a lot of sense. Everyone listened to it. Everyone began to concentrate and listened to him continue to say it.
Hamada Yoshiji said: "The core members of this bandit in Taohua Mountain are only more than a hundred. Now they have grown and grown, no more than a few hundred. Thousands of Huang troops cannot carry out effective strikes on them. In addition to the enemy occupying favorable terrain conditions, there is another important reason."
Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and the following was the focus of what he was going to say.
He looked around everyone and saw everyone staring at him. Then he continued: "When the Taohua Mountain bandits were fighting, they were good at using other anti-Japanese armed forces. When fighting in Zhiyuan County, he used the power of only the newly formed 187th Division of the government army, and when fighting in other places, he also used the local underground party armed forces.
They used these anti-Japanese armed forces to restrain the main force of our army and carried out sneak attacks everywhere with the main force of the bandits in Taohua Mountain, which made our army unable to defend against."
The commander of the 114th Division, Shigeji Momatsu and Chief of Staff Saburo Isoda, have all fought against the Taohuashan guerrillas. They also realized that during the battle, they encountered not only hundreds of bandits in Taohuashan, but a large number of other anti-Japanese militants, and even many ordinary people participated.
Originally, the Yellow Army had an advantage in the number of troops, but in this case, it formed a general disadvantage. When fighting, they felt that they could not find a real combat opponent.
Hamada Yoshihiro's analysis won the recognition of everyone. No matter whether everyone likes Hamada Yoshihiro, they still couldn't help but nod.
While speaking, Hamada Yoshiji observed the expressions of the people in the venue with his eyes. When he saw everyone's recognition of him, his confidence began to recover.
He said: "If you want to eliminate the bandits in Taohua Mountain, there are two ways. The first is to mobilize heavy troops to encircle them. If the troops participating in the battle can reach the strength of a division, when they are attacked by other anti-Japanese militants, they can divide a small number of troops to eliminate interference. The main force can still maintain an overwhelming force to surround the bandits in Taohua Mountain.
Within the narrow encirclement, the bandits on Taohua Mountain cannot move quickly and exert the power of their elusive guerrilla warfare. The Yellow Army can continuously narrow the encirclement and eventually completely annihilate them."
General Haneda weighed the main forces that could be drawn and used one division at a time. This was a big move. It was not easy to draw troops from various places for assembly.
He said, "You can talk about the second way."
Hinata Yoshihiko said: "The second method is to adopt the method of the Manchu Kwantung Army to deal with the underground party and anti-Japanese armed forces, and adopt the method of merger villages and garrisons to transfer the people around Taohua Mountain to other areas, so that the bandits in Taohua Mountain will be separated from the contact of the people and will not be able to obtain supplies, so they will force them to go out to fight.
Our army will draw elite cadres to establish solid strongholds on the main traffic roads in Taohua Mountains, block them, and continuously consume their live power. The bandits' power will gradually weaken and create conditions for our army to encircle and annihilate them."
It’s true that the two methods mentioned by Hamada Yoshihiro are extremely severe challenges for Gao Jiu and others under normal circumstances.
Especially the latter method, if the people of the 17 villages around Taohua Mountain are moved away, the supply of materials in Taohua Mountain will be greatly restricted, and the guerrillas will sit in vain. Sooner or later, they will be fought for the issue of food and drink. The Japanese army waits for work with a strong firepower point. Every battle between the Taohua Mountain guerrillas will be a tough battle and cannot play the advantage of fast mobile combat.
Everyone at the meeting agreed with Yoshihiro Hamada's point of view. Everyone found that General Matsuda was right. Everyone really didn't understand the Taohuashan guerrillas and couldn't propose a better way than Yoshihiro Hamada.
Perhaps because of the hostility of Hamada Yoshihiro's proposal, Saburo Isoda, chief of staff of the 114th Division, has raised doubts.
He said: "The combat plans you proposed before sounded very clever, but the final result proved that they were all traps, which ruined the lives of all the Huang army officers and soldiers who went to the war in vain.
The same is true of the methods you have proposed now, and I think it is still a piece of paper.
First of all, it is not easy to move the people around Taohua Mountain. These people also have a problem of resettlement. They are unwilling to move away, so they can't destroy them all."
When Saburo Isoda said this, even he felt a little strange. The 114th Division had participated in the Nanjing Massacre, and massacring the people was a very easy thing for them.
However, Gao Jiu had already said that those who massacre innocent people would be completely hunted down even if he fled to the ends of the world. Thinking about the fate of Ayumi Hamasaki and Shimada, he really dared not take this risk now.
Everyone present obviously thought of this. Gao Jiu's elusive method was a great shock to everyone. No one was willing to provoke Gao Jiu and lived a life of hiding and hiding all day.
Saburo Isoda saw the expressions of everyone and said directly: "Yizhi Hamada, I will leave this matter of migrating the people to your special high school course. Are you willing?"
In the northeast, Japanese invaders forced the people to drive out, and the people would be killed if they were not obedient. Taohua Mountain is different here. Gao Jiu would never agree to massacre innocent people.
"This, this...,"
Hamada Yoshihiro, Shimada and Ayumi Hamasaki, are the most familiar people. He tried his best to protect Ayumi Hamasaki, but in the end, Ayumi Hamasaki was still killed and asked him to do this. He really didn't have the courage to do it.
He was speechless and hesitant, not knowing how to answer Saburo Isoda.
Saburo Isoda said sarcastically: "Yizhi Hamada, you can't even implement the combat plan you have formulated. We are not as good as you know about the bandits in the peach blossoms. How can we implement it?"
Chapter completed!