Many times, historical changes come from details, and the person who determines the details is the person in the relevant position.

After Nanjing fell, the commander of the North China Front Army, Soichi Teraunuchi, wanted to connect the two areas of North China and Sliding, that is, to open up the Jinpu route, but was rejected by Jun Tada and the Operations Section Chief of the General Staff Head Office.

The combat section chief sent by the river to the North China Front Army went down the mountain and said in a telegram: "The troops can only be alert on the Jiaoji Line and cannot go south to fight."

When he went down the mountain, he said: "It is inevitable to go from the north of Longhai Line to the Jiaoji Line. There are more than 100,000 teams in the ** area, so it is very necessary to give it a painful blow."

The riverside believed that if you wanted to fight, the most important thing was to repel the enemy at once. As a result, for the Japanese army, it only expanded the occupied area and restrained more troops.

Under the confrontation of this view, the plan to occupy Qingcheng was introduced in a compromise.

Qingcheng has always been regarded as its territory by the Japanese. After fighting for several months, Qingdao has not yet been captured. In their opinion, it is incredible. Even Tada and the riverside are still conquering Qingdao and connecting the Jiaoji Line.

According to the plan of the General Staff Headquarters, the North China Front Army was used as the general reserve team, that is, the Hiroshima 5th Division of Laosakagaki, as the main force to attack Qingdao.

At this time, the Navy also wanted to get involved and do it all over again. Tokyo's final decision was to attack Qingdao on both sides, and the landing task was handed over to the Marine Corps, and the 5th Division advanced east along the Jiaoji Line.

The problem arises.

The Fifth Division assembled in Baoding, and the Navy had taken the initiative. The Marine Corps moved ahead of time, but left the Fifth Division behind.

On January 10, the Japanese Marine Corps occupied Qingcheng without bloodshed. It was four days after the landing of the Kantosaki Detachment. It took a few days later that Lao Sakagaki took the division headquarters to leave the large army and felt Qingcheng.

After Qingcheng fell, Shimomura Tatsumiya, the Minister of the Operations Department of the Army General Staff Headquarters, was replaced by Hashimoto Group.

This Shimura Ding is the one who commanded the landing in Hangzhou Bay, which was also the peak battle in his personal military career.

Shimomura Taki and Hashimoto hand over the shift, and made a suggestion. If Hashimoto group accepts this suggestion, I am afraid the battle in Xuzhou will not be able to be fought.

Therefore, the Chinese team was able to defeat the main force of the Japanese Seya Detachment in Taierzhuang. Thanks to someone, this person is Hashimoto Group.

What is this suggestion?

Shimomura suggested that without waiting for China to breathe, with the support of the Japanese army in East China, the Japanese army in North China walked straight along the Pinghan Line, crossed the First War Zone and headed straight to Wuhan.

This plan is very risky. After all, there were more than 100,000 field troops in the Fifth War Zone in Xuzhou at that time. In this case, even if the troops in the First War Zone could be defeated head-on, their flanks would be exposed. It is also a question whether the main attacking troops in North China are enough.

The track of the warrior, the essence of combat is adventure. During the Three Kingdoms period, Deng Ai walked through Yinping and said with a smile, "Through the dangerous mountains and down the mountain are the best examples."

Hashimoto's group was a steady party and questioned Shimomura's proposal, believing that the Japanese army in North China had fought for several months and the troops were exhausted and urgently needed to be repaired. It was too risky to launch such a big battle.

In fact, the Japanese army did not go directly to Wuhan and attacked Xuzhou step by step. Of course, even if Shimura decided to use the suggestion, it might not be able to force the landing in China, but it could cause great difficulties for the positive transfer to the southwest West to China. In that case, the victory of the War of Resistance may be postponed by one or two years.

On the second day after Hashimoto took office, Qu Ba Kazuo, the head of the War Guidance Section of the Operations Department, prepared a guideline for the military use in Showa in 2013. According to his plan, the war would be ended at the latest in 1941.

Hashimoto took this plan to attend the cabinet meeting.

At the meeting, Hashimoto and the inner minister were having a fight for the first time. Hashimoto was an honest man, and honest man also got angry. An inner minister in charge of domestic affairs actually took charge of military affairs, which was a scattered person.

The last time he told Hashimoto that the cabinet could not obtain the exact information of the Army regarding the National Government's ideas and requested an immediate attack on Wuhan and Guangzhou.

Hashimoto then made adjustments to the two fronts in the Chinese theater. These were all happening around the Chinese Spring Festival in the Lunar New Year. During this period, the Chinese battlefield was actually relatively calm.

As Matsui Ishione was called back to Japan by the base camp because of the Nanjing Massacre, he served as the commander.

Long before this, King Hirohiko Asakamami ordered the 13th Division to clear the Central Team on the Huaihe River to the north. In January, battles occurred frequently on the southern line of the Jinpu Road, and the Japanese army advanced rapidly.

At the same time, the North China Front Army was responsible for the Second Army of Isogaya Lianjie Division in Shandong, heading south along the Jinpu Road, occupying Jining and Mengyin lines, and the troops headed straight to Xuzhou.

But the situation suddenly changed!

Nanjing was suddenly recovered by the Chinese team, and it was a Chinese team trapped in Nanjing. Hashimoto received the news that he almost called Asakamiya Hikari a waste, but this waste was the uncle of the Japanese Emperor, and even he was captured by the Chinese team.

The situation took a sharp turn, and the Operations Department had to postpone its combat plan to attack South China and temporarily allocated combat materials originally planned for South China operations to the Central China Front Army of the Encirclement and Suppression Division.

The hastily formulated "strangulation" plan not only failed to eliminate the Honorary Division, but also lost troops and generals, and the main forces of the 13th and 16th field divisions were completely lost.

At this time, Hashimoto's group was more inclined to stabilize the current idea of ​​occupying the area. He not only denied the Wuhan battle, but also denied the Tianjin line battle.

However, at this time, Aosuke Isotani had already advanced the division headquarters to Yanzhou, Shandong, and actively prepared to lead his troops south to Xuzhou.

If the Honorary First Division had not appeared and launched a series of battles on the southern line of the Jinpu Road, without the support of the Central and Japanese troops on the southern line, the Isogai Division would have delayed the adventure of continuing to move south.

Of course, Tokyo also urgently stopped the idea of ​​the front-line soldiers' dangerous advancement, and sent the First Division Chief of the Operations Department Toshiro Kawabai to fly to Peking in person to meet Soichi Desouchi and to pass the combat instructions to the base camp.

However, no matter how the headquarters and the General Staff are curbed, the trend of the North China Front Army advancing south cannot be changed.

The commander of the Central China Front Army in Nanjing, Shinji Hata, suffered such a great loss in the Honorary First Division, and even agreed with Soichi Desouchi's plan to advance south, demanding to concentrate the main forces of the two major front armies in Central China and North China. Open up the Jinpu route in one fell swoop and eat up the elite field troops in the Fifth War Zone of China.

Of course, Hata Shunruo still has selfish intentions, that is, to avenge the annihilation of the main force of Nanjing and the 13th Division.

The two old Japanese were like alike and hit it off, so they jointly formulated a combat plan and submitted it to the Tokyo Base Camp General Staff Headquarters.

The old Japanese devils named the plan "Feng" plan.

It seems that he never forgets his hatred for "Leng Feng" and even naming the combat plan. He plots against Leng Feng.

Hashimoto was helpless. The bad habit of "being guilty" in the Japanese army seemed difficult to change. The base camp was originally the dominant strategic party, but it was constantly led by the soldiers on the front line.

At this critical moment, Kawabian Toshiro, who had always been as conservative and stable as him, was appointed to replace him with the war madman Masaku Inada, and the Operations Department suddenly became isolated and helpless.

The curtain of the Battle of Xuzhou has been opened.

The soldiers did not have the habit of sleeping in. Leng Feng got up early and when he opened the door, Yang Jie happened to come out of the room.

"Sir, how did you take a break last night?"

"Young man. Not bad for bed, not bad." Yang Jie praised Leng Feng in reverse.

"I'm used to it!"

"This is very good. The plan for the day is to go in the morning, go down and go for a walk with me." Yang Jie greeted.

"Very happy!"

In the yard, Yao Heizi and others have already started to exercise early. This place is not big and cannot be used. They can only move their tibia and maintain strong physical strength.

Although Yang Jie was a little uncomfortable with the lazy look of Yao Heizi and others, he had to admit that these people were all good soldiers, strong physically, and exuded explosive power all over his body.

"Kuoguang, are these those Yaksha Operation Teams under your command?"

"Yes, this is the second team." Leng Feng did not hide it. Since he had become a disciple, he had to meet him frankly. He believed in Yang Jie's character. Even if he knew his secret, he would not tell anyone.

"They don't look like regular soldiers?" Yang Jie asked.

"Yes, many of them are recruited directly from society, and some have a case-related record, but their essence is not bad." Leng Feng said frankly.

Yang Jie was not surprised. There were many people in the people. If he could contribute to the country, he could play a greater role.

But most of the experts have weird personalities and are not restricted, so it is difficult to gather them together. If they are strict, they will not be able to stand it. If they are too loose, they will be lawless. This is a very difficult topic.

"Guoguang, how did you bring these people to your command?"

"Sir, want to hear the truth?"

"certainly."

"At the beginning, it was a threat and temptation, and then conquer it with absolute strength. As long as you are stronger than any of them, they will naturally subdue you!" Leng Feng said.

This is to deal with these monks who became monks halfway through. If they were trained by themselves, it would be less troublesome.

However, this kind of monk who has become a monk with the most personality, outstanding abilities, and elusive personality. It can have explosive power that you can't imagine. On the contrary, if it is cultivated step by step, it will be less spiritual and more pedantic.

Of course, this is not exactly the case. A person's personality reaches a certain age. Even the special forces trained by the troops may not lose to those born in the wild.

Anyone is plastic, it depends on what kind of person he is willing to become.

"Why not let them become soldiers like you and me?" Yang Jie asked.

"Because they are different from ordinary soldiers, they sometimes sneak into the enemy's back as needed, change their identities, and deal with different people. If they become like you and me, they will unconsciously reveal some habits in their actions. Therefore, I will not ask them to deliberately demand themselves in the way of soldiers. Therefore, their training methods are different from those of ordinary soldiers." Leng Feng explained.

"So that's how it is." Yang Jie nodded. Fortunately, he did not express his impression. It turned out that these people were lazy and undisciplined, but that their combat methods were different from those of ordinary soldiers.

"I'm traveling in Germany and I heard that they are training a special team, which sounds a bit similar to yours. Did you do this according to their training method?"

"Haha, sir is right. I call it a special operation." Leng Feng explained.

"Special operations?" Yang Jie thought.

(This chapter focuses on the causes and consequences before the battle, mainly to let readers understand. After all, the situation of the battle has changed, hehe!)

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