blenderwars #278 - The Japs' new plan
#278 - The Japs' new plan
Ye City.
The joint headquarters of the Japanese Ninth Area Army and the North China Area Army.
“Kurihara-kun, the Eighth Route Army's tank units are a priority target that we must eliminate,” General Sadamu Shimomura, who took over the command of the Ninth Area Army and the North China Area Army, said as he glanced at the battle report in his hand before handing it to Lieutenant General Nobuo Kurihara.
“The T-34 tanks and M3 tanks that the Eighth Route Army obtained from the Great Bear and the Rogue Eagle are too powerful on the battlefield. We don't have any effective means to restrain them, except for our Type 3 Chi-Nu medium tanks. Even our medium tanks can't penetrate the front of the Eighth Route Army's tanks.”
After suffering heavy losses, the Japanese reflected deeply and conducted a comprehensive investigation into the Eighth Route Army's tanks. After sacrificing no less than 50 intelligence personnel, they have now basically figured out the details of the T-34 and M3.
“Your Excellency Shimomura, it is indeed as you said. Our army's biggest problem now is that we cannot cope with the tanks and mobile 107 rocket launchers in the hands of the Eighth Route Army. These are the two most terrifying weapons of the Eighth Route Army,” Nobuo Kurihara said respectfully to Sadamu Shimomura.
“Therefore, this subordinate suggests that we use cunning to deal with these two combat units of the Eighth Route Army, and try to eliminate their elite forces before the decisive battle.”
“Are you talking about the Ninth Area Army's plan to attack Shexian?” Sadamu Shimomura frowned. “Is it somewhat risky to have a decisive battle with the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Mountains?”
“Your Excellency Shimomura, now that the main force of the Eighth Route Army's Taiyue Military Region has deployed in the Jizhou area, there are only so-called Category C regiments near their Lu'an. If we launch a surprise attack from Shexian this time, the Eighth Route Army will inevitably have to use its highly mobile tank units and 107 rocket launcher units to reinforce,” Nobuo Kurihara said, “We will infiltrate the main force through the small mountain roads in the Shexian area, carrying the Imperial Army's latest research, the Type 100 anti-tank rocket launcher, which can completely launch close-range attacks in the mountainous area!”
“This is our first trump card to deal with the Eighth Route Army's tanks. In addition, the main force attacking through the main road will hide the Type 3 Chi-Nu medium tanks in the Type 97 Chi-Ha tank formation, patiently waiting for the enemy's tanks to appear before launching a surprise attack to annihilate them.”
“The specific combat plan is to use the 8th Division, 9th Division, 25th Division, 28th Division, 29th Division, and the Independent Tank 1st Brigade as the main force to attack Shexian; use the 1st Division, 10th Division, 11th Division, 14th Division, 57th Division, and the Field Heavy Artillery 3rd Brigade as a feint to advance south towards Jizhou! The Fifth Air Force will do its best to seize air superiority and provide air fire support for the two main forces. The 23rd Division, 24th Division, and 25th Division will form a general reserve team. In this way, no matter which side wins, we can immediately invest the general reserve team to follow up with a strong attack and seize the initiative on the battlefield.”
Nobuo Kurihara said fiercely.
The Japanese had suffered enough from the piecemeal tactics, so this time they were determined to go all in.
This plan could not be completed in a day. In fact, when the Ninth Area Army was reorganized, the Japanese North China Area Army and the Ninth Area Army had already begun to coordinate and formulate a new combat plan.
The old Japanese devil, Sadamu Shimomura, naturally knew about this.
“Kurihara-kun, this battle is related to the fate of the Empire. Is your Ninth Area Army really ready for the decisive battle?” Sadamu Shimomura tapped the table with his fingers and said slowly.
Don't underestimate the fact that the Kwantung Army has concentrated 300,000 elite troops with a strong momentum. Sadamu Shimomura knows that the Japanese actually have no spare capacity to invest in the north, so they cannot even divide their forces to launch an attack from the northern line. Sending three or five divisions into the grassland is a dead end, and the Japanese naturally dare not act rashly.
Even on the central line, the Japanese are bluffing, exhausting the last bit of combat power of the North China Area Army to put on an offensive posture.
In fact, the main force of the Japanese has been quietly targeting the southern line of the brigade commander as its goal.
It's just that Sadamu Shimomura still has some hesitation in his heart.
What if this scheme to lure the enemy turns into a self-immolation again?
The Japanese have suffered losses more than once or twice, and each time they have not estimated the upper limit of the Eighth Route Army.
“Your Excellency Shimomura, the Ninth Area Army vows to serve the Empire to the death. If this battle is not won, starting with this subordinate, all officers above the rank of lieutenant will commit seppuku to apologize!” Nobuo Kurihara said decisively.
“Yoshi, Kurihara-kun, then go ahead and do it! I'm counting on you!” Sadamu Shimomura nodded and finally made up his mind.
This battle is of great importance. After reorganizing the Ninth Area Army, the headquarters had a heated discussion about whether to replace Nobuo Kurihara, the defeated general, but after many discussions, there was no better candidate to replace him, and they had to reluctantly accept Nobuo Kurihara.
At the same time, the North China Area Army and the Ninth Area Army were formed into a joint command, with Sadamu Shimomura serving as the commander-in-chief to control the overall situation. In order to maintain secrecy, the headquarters and the North China Area Army agreed that major tactics would be transmitted through airborne human couriers instead of radio waves.
Through the coincidence of multiple battles, the Japanese have now vaguely felt that something is wrong with the communication, as if there is an invisible eye staring at them. From the headquarters' investigation to the North China Area Army's investigation, although some Allied spies were eliminated, these spies, without exception, did not have the ability to obtain core headquarters information.
Therefore, after investigating, the Japanese still suspected the radio.
It's just that frequent updates of the codebook are extremely inconvenient. The Japanese are now simply returning to the primitive era, re-adopting human transmission for top-secret information such as major battle plans!
This is the most reliable.
Relying on this trick, Ren Zhong and his team did encounter an intelligence black hole this time. Just the Japanese troop numbers alone required a lot of manpower and piecing together the Japanese airborne signals before they could be extracted from the big data model that Ren Zhong helped the computer department deploy.
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Due to the importance of intelligence work, Ren Zhong updated the latest computers for the telecommunications decryption team and spent millions to deploy a large model system specifically for intelligence information mining and reorganization.
Compared to manual work, after inputting all the decrypted Japanese telegrams, the efficiency of this system immediately broke through to the level of real-time completion.
The large model makes tentative judgments on all the correlations, and then gathers them together to form multiple possible judgments, which are then checked and sorted by humans. When they are sent to Ren Zhong and the staff headquarters, they are basically very clear organizational deployment intelligence.
Although the specific tactics of the Japanese could not be obtained because they were not transmitted through radio waves.
However, through the changes in the Japanese garrison, Ren Zhong and Staff Officer Ye still discerned some clues.
For example, the current Japanese concentration in Wu'an and Chaoge.
This is a very clear signal.
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